Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 7 dozen
Ingredients: 2 cups margarine (stick margarine only); 1 1/3 cups white sugar; 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar; 4 cups flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 2 eggs; 2 cups chocolate chips

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Submitted by Kathy-Lynn

"These are our favorite. I usually make 1/2 and freeze the rest for later in the week when we run out."

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photo by Baby Kato

Ready In:: 25mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 7 dozen

ingredients

2 cups margarine (stick margarine only)
1 ¹⁄₃ cups white sugar
1 ¹⁄₂ cups packed brown sugar
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups chocolate chips

directions

Mix flour, soda and salt in a bowl; set aside.
Cream together margarine and sugars.
Beat eggs into sugar mixture.
Add vanilla.
Beat until fluffy.
Add the dry ingredients.
Add chocolate chips.
Drop onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes .
Cookies should be brown around the edges and will finish cooking on the sheet when removed from the oven.

Questions & Replies

If you substitute the margarine for butter (unsalted) will the results be the same?

puls.melody

Reviews

EVERYONE LOVES THESE COOKIES! I recommend using butter instead of margarine for better tasting cookies, and my oven took 12 minutes to make them golden and perfect. I couldn't believe how fast these cookies were eaten!! They are great!!

Jen Reynolds
Very nice cookie. I also substituted butter and had good results. I only wanted to make a half a recipe so entered 3.5 to resize. Made about 2 1/2 dozen.

Sharlene~W
Wonderful recipe, and definitely a keeper. I have tried many chocolate chip cookie recipes and this is definitely one of the best I have tried so far, and I am a grandmother with lots of cookie baking experience. I added 3T sour cream to the butter/sugar mix. (I read that suggestion somewhere recently, I tried it and liked it.)

Marla in California
I wanted these to be great- i'm always looking for a better chocolate chip cookie recipe. Unfortunately this isn't it for me. I followed the recipe exactly except I used butter. Ater I mixed the wet and dry imgredients together, the dough was almost crumbly.The cookies came out too flour-y and really too sweet for me. The next day they were just hard and not chewy like we like. And they were beige instead of golden brown. Glad I tried it, but I'm going back to my old recipe!

brhead
I use salted butter instead of margarine (and leave out the added salt) and have gotten more than a few rave reviews. I find the salted butter gives the cookie a really nice sweet and savory flavour, as well the salt really brings out all the other flavours! Love it!

mermaidcelestiadubai

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Tweaks

This is very good! I used 1/2 cup of canola oil in place of 1 of the eggs and it came out delicious and light. I think this tasted a little better then the original recipe itself. Also, I reduced the white sugar to 1/2 cup instead of 1 1/3 cup because I ran out. However, I added 1/3 cup brown sugar to the original amount. I enjoyed these cookies SO MUCH!

TeamOHara
This is a very simple and tasty cookie! I used butter, not margarine and I also substituted the chocolate chips for white chocolate chips because it's what I had on hand. But after trying them with white chips, I think I might just make them again that way! The flavor is slightly different and I think I prefer the white chips now. I uploaded a picture of the cookies with white chips but right now it is pending approval. I definitely will put this recipe in my recipe book!

Sphinx
Great recipe. I've been looking for a good, simple chocolate chip cookie recipe that uses ingredients that I always have on hand and this is it. I made these today with my 5 year old and we substituted butter for margarine and used 500g of mini chips. They were so yummy - not too crispy and not too soft. Thanks!

Betsmonster
Kathy- Lynn this is a great cookie recipe, my whole family loved them. They were nice and soft, easy to follow directions. I used unsalted butter instead of margarine. Will be making them again.

greekgirl45
This recipe was definitely a good basic recipe. I modified it a tad. I used salted butter instead of margarine (ick), cut the salt back to 3/4 tsp., cut the vanilla back to 1 3/4 tsp., and used 1 cup of milk chocolate and 1 cup of semi-sweet morsels. VERY, VERY good. I posted a picture of them -- 2 cookies sitting on a paper towel.

Giustino