Cookie, Anyone

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (12oz.)

1. Preheat oven to 375º F
2. In a large bowl, combine flour,
baking soda and salt; set aside.
In another bowl, beat butter and
shortening at medium speed
until well-blended and fluffy;
gradually add sugar and brown
sugar, beat well. Add eggs and
vanilla, beat well. Add flour
mixture to butter mixture, mix
well. Stir in chocolate chips.
3. Drop dough by heaping teaspoons
about 2 inches apart on baking
sheet. Bake 9 to 11 minutes. Cool
slightly on baking sheet; cool
completely on wire rack.

The blue mat that the cookies are on is silicon, I'm testing it out for the Cooking Club of America, then I let them know what I think. I think it's very cool and worth checking out. No need for a spatula to remove the cookies and the mat can withstand up to 500º. You can also freeze them and then take them straight to the oven. Fold them up for great storage, they never lose their shape. A good investment!

Have a great week!

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    princess_of_llyr, alida saxon, viewscreen, ctle, and 60 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Lewesrat (75 months ago | reply)

    Mmm...looks delicious. But I really can't eat cookies before bed time - they'd go straight to my hips! :D

  3. erikschryver (75 months ago | reply)

    How does the mat affect baking time, crispiness, etc?

  4. Crickie [deleted] (75 months ago | reply)

    ::whine:: I want cookies. I have cheesecake ingredients in the fridge, but I haven't made it yet.

  5. Ali Bear (75 months ago | reply)

    Yum! Great closeup.

  6. ... has left the building [deleted] (75 months ago | reply)

    They look yummie, but I'm pretty full right now. Just had dinner with Mary Anne ;-)

    That mat sounds interesting. Maybe I'll give it a try.

  7. auntiebs (75 months ago | reply)

    They look so good!
    (too bad I've had to stop eating such things)
    That mat sounds way interesting, too.

  8. ArtsySF © ~ Marjie (75 months ago | reply)

    mmmmm my favorite cookies !

    I use the Silpat silicon mat. I swear by it..! The people at Sur La Table cooking store told me that cookies would never burn on them (ha, I wonder if that is true)

  9. CharlieBrown8989 (75 months ago | reply)

    Excellence...

    please post your food & drinks shots with

    www.flickr.com/groups/in-out-food-drinks
    www.flickr.com/groups/food-drinks-directory

    I appreciate it....

  10. latenightowl (75 months ago | reply)

    Panda and I had dinner, but we didn't have dessert. These would do nicely. They look perfectly done, and tasty too.

    I don't have the mats yet, but I use the silicon cake, bread, and muffin pans. The pot holders are nice, easy-care, too.

  11. Waldgeister's Sound of Silence (75 months ago | reply)

    All we need is choco chip cookies..
    MORE please! Nachschlag...?

  12. ΞLLΞ∩ (75 months ago | reply)

    Yummy!! Looks and sounds so tasty! ;-)
    Nice pic with the blue!

  13. alida saxon (75 months ago | reply)

    Mmm, yes please.

    I've been meaning to try one of those sheets. Silpat, or something like it.

  14. Kristina J. [deleted] (75 months ago | reply)

    they look yummy, even though I don't actually like chocolate

  15. Foxicat (75 months ago | reply)

    Oh boy, now you've done it! I must have cookies!!!

  16. patisfaction ~ censored [deleted] (75 months ago | reply)

    yess me wannaaa
    ;)

  17. Yahoo! Answers Editorial (61 months ago | reply)

    Hi scubadive67,

    Cool photo! I used it on the Yahoo! Answers front page to complement a question in the Best of Answers module.

    Suzi
    Yahoo! Answers Editor

  18. KBlood (56 months ago | reply)

    American Food

  19. India Eileen (50 months ago | reply)

    Do you know what you've just done? you've made me want to go to the expensive Student Union Building and get a 5 dollar cookie. All with this picture. Good job!!

    :D

  20. arnettb (49 months ago | reply)

    Thank you for making this CC! I used it here and credited you:

    storyaday.net/2008/05/20/51-cookies/

  21. CaseyJ* [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)

    You are invited to post this image at

    studies in blue and brown

    and consider entering the chocolate contest!

  22. ABarrett (45 months ago | reply)

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  23. jasleens14 (44 months ago | reply)

    they look really good

  24. Everyday's An Adventure [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)

    This IS A Delectable Photo.
    Thanks so much for the recipe! :P

  25. jazzejunqueinc (41 months ago | reply)

    You are in need of a cookie jar~

  26. tinkerbellbabe56 (40 months ago | reply)

    those cookies looks good

  27. kerryj.com (39 months ago | reply)

    Love the photo, loved the recipe, using this in a PowerPoint - made a tiny URL for it -- ending in cookieany1

  28. aaron_language (27 months ago | reply)

    What a delicious looking shot! Beautiful! Thanks for placing your photography here at Flickr with a Creative Commons license, giving us permission to use it. Your photo is up at www.aaronlanguage.com/journalism_essay.htm. This page is an essay about journalism and translation. Your name is under the photo and links to one of our credit pages, which is at www.aaronlanguage.com/additionallinks/credits _3.html. Your name at the credit page then links to your profile here at Flickr. And thanks again! We really appreciate the Creative Commons license and the great photography!

  29. Jake1821 (23 months ago | reply)

    Coookiesssssss

  30. snicky7884 (15 months ago | reply)

    This picture is great! It is perfect to use in a blog of ours, so I'd like to use your photo here www.teamgrab.com/blog scheduled for posting May 2, 2011 with your name attached. If you do want your work reproduced here please email me at snicky7884@yahoo.com

  31. Nihara at Doing Too Much (14 months ago | reply)

    Mouth-watering photo! I used the picture (with attribution) in my recent blog post entitled "The Chocolate Chip Cookie Rule of Uncluttering" (http://www.doing-too-much.com/2011/04/my-cho colate-chip-cookie-rule-of.html).

    Thanks so much!
    Nihara
    www.doing-too-much.com

  32. *COOKIES* (3 months ago | reply)

    mmm...*COOKIES*? I like cookies! lol

  33. 13basketball13 (2 months ago | reply)

    yummm

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