Super Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This cookie recipe is so easy and oh so delicious!!! We recently added cookie making about once every second week to our home school schedule. The school I work at and my son goes to, has an event called Fun Food Friday that happens every Friday afternoon. It involves the kids creating a fun healthy snack, crafts and organized games. The grade 5-8 leadership classes take turns planning the events and it is a fun time for everyone! My sons teachers also do cooking Friday mornings. The kids all get an opportunity to help make some kind of snack/treat for the class. He really loves this and misses cooking with his teachers. He was so proud last Wednesday when he go to show my husband how good of a cook he is when he made me breakfast in bed for my birthday (it was delicious!). So I have tried to add in at least 1 cooking day a week where we make something. I usually use this cookie recipe every other week as they tend to go fast!



                                 

This recipe will make anywhere from 18 - 30 cookies depending on their size. I have substituted the chocolate chips with other forms of chocolate (Peanut butter cups, mini eggs, rolos, ect). Its easiest if you freeze the other forms of chocolate first and then break them up before adding them to the cookie batter.  



The best part about this recipe is that it doesn't involve multiple bowls or sifting flour. Its just a dump and mix kind of recipe. This is one that the kids love to help with as they can just dump ingredients into the bowl and watch the mixer do its job.



Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
6 Tbsp white sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1.5 - 2 cups chocolate chips or other chocolate (mini eggs, peanut butter cups, etc)

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 and either use a cookie only cookie sheet or line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

2. In your mixer, mix at medium speed butter, brown sugar and white sugar until blended and smooth.

3. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix on low speed.

4. Add flour, baking soda and salt to the butter mixture and mix on low speed until just incorporated. (make sure you don't over mix)

5. Next add in the chocolate and give it a quick mix.

6. Next using a tablespoon, spoon out the dough and make it into balls before placing it onto the cookie sheet.

7. I bake the cookies 1 sheet at a time for optimal cookie cooking lol and they can take anywhere from 8 - 13 minutes depending on the size.

8. remove cookies from cookie sheet and place on cooling rack to cool completely.



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