My Favorite Cookies- the first recipe!

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Tahoe-Tested Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 Cup (2 sticks) Unsalted Butter, at room temp.
1 Cup Brown Sugar
½ Cup White Sugar
2 Lg. Eggs
1 ½ tsp. Vanilla Extract
¼ tsp. Allspice (or nutmeg, or cloves, or ½ tsp cinnamon)
2 ¼ Cups A.P. Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
½ tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Salt
1 ½ C Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips


Combine Flour, baking powder and soda, and salt in a medium bowl and whisk together (or sift). Set aside.

Cream butter and sugars on medium-high speed (standing mixer works best, but hand-held is fine and melting the butter and using a spoon works okay for dorm situations etc. but the cookies will be a little tougher) about 3 minutes or until light and creamy looking. You may need to scrape down the bowl a few times to get it all mixed
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until just combined (about 30 secs) and scraping down the bowl after each one. Add vanilla and spice and beat another 30 seconds, until combined.

Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture, either by hand or with the mixer on low, scraping down as needed. Stir in the chocolate chips, then chill dough at least one hour, until firm.

Preheat Oven to 325 F.
Form dough into ~ 1” balls, don’t make them too big now, and place about an inch apart on a cookie sheet. You don’t need to grease the sheet, but I recommend using parchment paper if your sheets are older or you often have trouble with things sticking to them. Replace remaining dough in fridge.

Bake cookies about 10 minutes, until golden and set but still very soft looking. Let cool on sheet for a couple minutes, then remove them to a rack to cool. Repeat with remaining dough. Store in a sealed container or baggy.

*I often make this, cook a half dozen, then form the rest of the dough into balls and freeze it for later! Place the balls on plates and freeze a couple hours before tossing them all into a freezer bag and sealing it tightly. This way they won’t all stick together. When you want cookies, take out as many balls of dough as you want and cook them at 350 for 12-15 minutes, they come out wonderfully and then you don’t have three dozen cookies at once, tempting you with their deliciousness ☺