Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookie is an all time American favorite cookie for all ages.  In the corporate cafe where I work, these cookies are gone in a fly, especially when they just come out of the oven - warm and soft.  Kids would snap them in a hurry whenever they see chocolate chip cookies.  They come in soft or hard/crunchy textures.  I like the soft one.  Chocolate chip cookies are readily available at most food places but nothing beats homemade ones - they are fresh, natural, and no preservative.  There are myriad of chocolate chip cookie recipes out there and of course, I have not tried all of them but from the few that I did, I prefer the recipe below.

 Ingredients:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, soften at room temperature for about 30 minutes
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups chocolate chips

Instruction:

1. Preheat oven at 350 F.
2. Measure the first five ingredients into a medium bowl, mix well in a mixer on "stir" mode (kitchen aid mixer) until all blended.  Make sure you don't over mix; otherwise, the cookies will flatten out during baking and they tend to get harder and become crunchy
3. Add the last four ingredients into the bowl, mix well
4. Use ice cream scoop or spoon to shape the dough roughly into balls, place on top of parchment paper in a cookie sheet.  Ideally if you have two 1/2 sheet cookie sheets, then you can alternate the baking process

Makes approx. 4 dozen small cookies (shown in picture above)