Easy, Yummy Chocolate Chip Cookies! {Testing a Hershey's Recipe}

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I baked cookies on Sunday. I'm gonna let you in on a little secret: I've never baked cookies from scratch on my own before!! I've always used a packet and just added a couple of ingredients. But this time, I started from scratch, using the recipe from my new Hershey's cook book! And they turned out yummy, even though I made a few measurement boo-boos... but let's not talk about that ;)

And judging by the amount of cookies left... they were a hit ;)

As I mentioned, this is a Hershey's recipe, but since I also found it on their site, I hope it's ok that I borrow it to share it with you. All credit goes to Hershey's, except the picture - that's mine ;) And I've changed a couple of things in the recipe as well.


Chocolate Chip Cookies / Testing Hershey's Classic MINI KISSES Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 1/2 cups Hershey's semi sweet chocolate chips

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened and cut into pieces

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 2 eggs, lightly beaten

Directions

• Stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.

• Add the chocolate chips and vanilla extract.

• Heat oven to 375º F.

• Add butter, and stir until crumbly mixture forms. Get your hands in there (and squish the butter!).

• Add eggs and stir. (Use your hands here as well, otherwise the eggs won't mix properly).

• The mixture should be wet but firm.

• Drop by heaping tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet (I like them a bit bigger than Hershey's does). I roll each "cookie" into a ball for neatness before dropping them on the cookie sheet.

• Bake 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

Makes about 40 cookies (depends on how big you make them, but I made them quite big, and I made approx. 40)

NOTE: If you want a really big cookie, rolling an extra big ball of dough won't make it's area bigger... you'll only get a really fat, half-raw cookie. But it turned out really yummy, though ;)

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What are your favourite cookie recipes?

Any tips for baking cookies?

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