Chocolate Chip Drop Cookies

 

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Medium size cookies with a chewy interior, lightly browned surface, and a well blended chocolate flavor.

 

Recipe-

2         cups all-purpose flour

1         teaspoon baking soda

1/8      teaspoon salt

1 1/2  sticks unsalted butter (3/4 cup) 

1/2     cup granulated sugar

1/2     cup light brown sugar, firmly packed

1        large egg

2        tablespoons milk

1        teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1        12-ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate morsels

1        cup chopped pecans (optional)

 

Directions-

Preheat oven to 350-degrees.  Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt onto a sheet of wax paper.  Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugars until smooth.  Beat in egg, milk, and vanilla.  Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients.  Stir in semi-sweet chocolate morsels.  Drop 2-inch cookies onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned and let set 2 minutes.  Remove cookies from baking sheet and cool on wire rack.   Store in a covered container.  To retain moisture place a slice of fresh white bread on top of the cookies.  Replace every couple of days.

Yield:  2 dozen. 

 

Presentation-

Serve on a dessert plate accompanied with a glass of milk.  

 

Storage-

Place in a cookie tin with sheets of parchment of wax paper between layers.  Place fresh slice of bread on top to retain moisture.

 

Carolyn Gass Hardimon, M. S.

Home Economist

Belleville, Illinois