Best-ever chocolate chip cookies

48 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
cupSifted all-purpose flour
1teaspoonBaking soda
1teaspoonGround cinnamon
2Sticks butter; softened
½cupFirmly packed light brown sugar
1cupGranulated sugar
1largeEgg
1teaspoonVanilla extract
cupOld-fashioned rolled oats
1cupSemisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Mix together flour, baking soda, and cinnamon.

2. Beat together butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.

3. At low speed, beat in flour mixture until blended. Fold in oats and chocolate chips. Cover with plastic wrap; chill for 1 hour.

4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 baking sheets.

5. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place cookies, 2 inches apart, on prepared baking sheets. Flatten each cookie slightly.

6. Bake cookies until lightly browned around edges, 10 to 12 minutes.

Transfer baking sheets to wire racks to cool slightly. Transfer cookies to racks to cool completely.

FROM "GREAT AMERICAN HOME

BAKING" CARDS

From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .