Chocolate Chip Nuggets

 

Holiday/ Special Occasions

 

½      cup granulated sugar

½      cup brown sugar, firmly packed

½      cup butter

2       medium eggs

1       teaspoon vanilla

2 ¼   cups all-purpose flour

1       teaspoon baking soda

2       cups milk chocolate morsels

1       cup chopped pecans

 

Preheat oven to 350-degrees.  In a medium bowl, cream butter with sugars until light and fluffy.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Beat well. Combine flour and baking soda in another mixing bowl.  Add to creamed mixture to form a soft but not sticky dough.  Add chocolate morsels and chopped nuts.  Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls

 2 inches apart on cookie sheet coated with cooking spray.  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes of until lightly browned.  Remove cookies from cookie sheet and cool on wire racks.

Yield:  3 dozen cookies.

 

Carolyn Gass Hardimon, M. S.         Home Economist