Chocolate Chip Cookies

Have you ever had Otis Spunkmeyer cookies before? Well, these aren't like those. Not even close. I wish they were but these are a different kind of goodness. I promise. Crisp with a soft gooey center and just enough chocolate to satisfy your cravings without overloading your senses.

I keep losing my train of thought as there is a party bus outside my house pumping out house music like nobody's business. I wouldn't be so distracted nor annoyed if said party bus was for me. But it's not so it needs to move on and take its tantalizing flashing lights and dance music elsewhere. So I can enjoy my wine and book and perhaps curl up with my cat.....I lead such an exciting life I know.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 sticks butter, room temperature

3/4 cup dark brown sugar (use light if you don't have dark)

3/4 cup sugar

1 tbsp vanilla

2 eggs

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

2 1/4 cups flour

1 - 1 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips, heaping

1 - 1 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, heaping

Preheat oven to 350 F

In an electric mixing bowl mix your butter and both sugars together till smooth. Add in both eggs and mix into just incorporated. Add vanilla. In a separate bowl mix the rest of your dry ingredients together. Add too mixing bowl in batches until just completely mixed. For something like cookies, brownies, and cakes you need to be careful not to mix too much.

Using a tablespoon scoop out a heaping mound of cookie dough and eat it. Then moving on, use about a tablespoon of dough for each cookie. It doesn't need to be in a perfect ball or anything. Just plop it on the cookie sheet and move on. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes. Until the center is just done so you will end up with a nice soft center of melted chocolate goodness.

These cookies will cause happiness but in some subjects violence was displayed. Mostly in response to all the cookies being eaten and the culprit looking something like this.

Fake innocence can obviously be learned at a very young age. Enjoy your cookies!