Grandma’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Grandma would serve these with milk, coffee, or tea and usually ice cream!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/4 cup flour (unbleached or white wheat)
- 1.5 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1- 12 ounce package semisweet chocolate chips (about 2 cups)
- 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts (optional, but we like walnuts)
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Devin’s variation: Using Grandma’s recipe, he chose to use about 8 oz of chocolate chips and 8 oz of white chips.
Directions:
- preheat oven to 375F
- mix sugars together. Cream in butter.
- Beat egg in a large bowl.Stir in vanilla and sugar.
- Mix sugar and egg mixtures together and blend well
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt together.
- Stir flour mixture into the egg mixture.
- Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
- Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes, until light brown (centers will still be soft)
- Cool slightly before moving onto wire rack to cool completely.
- Snickerdoodles
Snickerdoodles
Warm buttery, cinnamon delights. Soft with a very thin crisp to them. YUM!
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 2 eggs
- 2-3/4 cups flour (white wheat or unbleached)
- 2 tsp cream of tarter
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 T cinnamon
Directions:
- preheat oven to 400F
- cream together butter and sugar.
- beat egg. Mix into butter mixture
- In a separate bowl, mix flour, cream of tarter, baking soda, and salt
- Add to the egg mixture and blend well.
- shape into 1 inch balls
- mix sugar and cinnamon together in a separate bowl
- roll each ball into the sugar-cinnamon mixture until well coated
- place on ungreased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart
- bake 8-10 minutes, until very lightly browned. Cookies will still be soft.
- cool on a wire rack
Peanut Butter Cookies
Grandma let me help flatten these with a fork!
peanut butter cookies
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 egg
- 1-1/4 cup flour (unbleached or white wheat)
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Directions:
- Cream sugar into butters
- Beat egg and mix into the butter and sugar
- In a separate bowl, mix remaining ingredients.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the egg mixture and blend well.
- Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Form into 1 inch balls
- Place on ungreased baking sheet, about 3 inches apart
- Using a fork dipped in sugar, press down one way, then the opposite direction
- Bake 8-10 minutes until lightly browned.
- Let cool on cookie sheet for about 5 minutes before moving onto cooling rack
