One of the most popular homemade treats are chocolate chip cookies, from the smell of the kitchen to the gooey, hot cookies coming out of the oven. Making chocolate chip cookies can make you a hero in the house, well as long as there is a gallon of milk in the fridge to go along with this tasty treat. Chocolate chip cookies are not only delicious and comforting, but they provide a great idea for family time and can be easily made with a few ingredients.
Before baking you should make sure you have all the ingredients necessary for making chocolate chip cookies. For this particular recipe we will be following the chocolate chip cookie recipe on the back of the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip morsels bag. The recipe calls for: one whole bag of chocolate chip morsels, two and a quarter cups of flour, one teaspoon of baking soda and salt, two sticks of butter which needs to be softened not melted, two large eggs, three quarters of a cup of sugar and brown sugar, and one teaspoon of vanilla extract, and of course a small and large bowl to mix ingredients. All of these ingredients can be easily found at a local grocery store. Also, for extra deliciousness, chopped pecans or coconut sprinkles can be added, you can venture away from the recipe slightly.
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Take the small bowl and combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Next, in a separate, larger bowl, combine the two sticks of softened butter, sugar, brown sugar, two large eggs, and vanilla extract. If you don’t have an electric mixer, a whisk or even a large serving spoon can be used to mix the ingredients. Taking a whisk, we gather the original dry mixture and gradually beat it into the wet mixture. After both the dry and wet mixtures have been combined it’s time to add in the most important ingredient, chocolate