The Greatest Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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This has been my recipe for cc's (as my kids call them) for as long as I can remember. Do not substitute for the shortening - it makes a thick, crispy cookie. Bet you can't eat just one!

by Marie·published 2002-11-20

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Drop Cookies

Servings

10 dozen small cookies

Total time

30 min

prep 20 min

Calories / serving

1058 kcal

Ingredients (10)

serves

1 1/2 cups shorteningshortening
1 1/2 cups sugarsugar
3/4 cup brown sugarbrown-sugar
4 large eggsegg
3 teaspoons vanillavanilla
4 3/4 cups flourflour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking sodabaking-soda
1 1/2 teaspoons saltsalt
18 ounces chocolate chipschocolate-chips
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts or 1 1/2 cups pecanspecan

Instructions (7 steps)

01Cream shortening and sugars.
02Add eggs and vanilla and beat well.
03Add dry ingredients and mix (if this is too much batter for your electric mixer, you may have to finish mixing in dry ingredients by hand.) Stir in nuts and chips by hand.
04Drop by teaspoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375° for about 10 minutes.
05

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