Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name Author Other Erin Carter Shirley Ann Carter Clara Dean Patricia Griffin Ethel Heider Ethel Lancaster Martha Tedrow Sara Villat Type Appetizer Dessert Entree Salad Side Dish Soup Ingredients Instructions In a mixer cream the two sticks of butter until smooth and fluffy. Add in the brown and granulated sugar and mix completely with butter. Add in each egg one at a time mixing well between eggs.  Next add the salt, baking soda, and vanilla mixing well.  Remove from mixer and fold in the flour by hand until the mixture is a firm dough. Finally add in the chocolate chips folding in by hand.  Optional: add in 1 1/2 cups of chopped nuts of choice. Once dough is finished spread onto plastic wrap and cover completely.  Put dough into fridge for at least one hour; however over night works best.  Once dough is chilled spoon onto a cookie sheet desired sized balls and bake in a preheated 350 degree over for approximately 9 minutes.