Had a little baking session with my sisters today. Amelyn bought me some really sweet and adorable cupcake liners from Michaels so those definitely came in handy. We decided to start easy and bake some chocolate snowball cookies, and seeing that we had excess butter and chocolate chips, we decided to bake chocolate chip cupcakes.
Chocolate chip cookies (makes ~5 dozen)
(from The Cookie Bible)
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup powered/confectioner's sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups all purpose flour
2 cups (12-ounce package) NESTLE Toll House semi-sweet chocolate mini morsels
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts (optional)
Method
- Preheat oven to 375˚ F
- Beat butter, sugar, vanilla extract and salt in large mixer bowl until creamy.
- Gradually beat in flour.
- Stir in morsels and nuts.
- Shape level tablespoons of dough into 1 1/4 inch balls.
- Place on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake for 10 - 12 minutes or until cookies are set and slightly brown.
- Remove from oven.
- Cool on baking sheets for 10 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.