Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• ½ cup margarine, softened
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ tsp vanilla
• 1cup + 2Tbsp flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¾ cup chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Cream margarine and sugars together. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Add flour, baking soda, and chocolate chips. Mix until well blended. Chill dough for at least 1/2 hour in refrigerator. Drop by spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 12-14 minutes.

How to make GREAT Cookies

• Use cheap, full-fat, not good for you margarine (or butter)
• Let margarine soften at room temperature until you can mash it with a wooden spoon (not until it's runny :)
• Chill your dough. Sometimes the cookie dough gets a little too soft in a hot kitchen, and you end up with pancakes instead of cookies. Chill it!
• Use thick, good quality cookie sheets or bun pans - no more burnt bottoms and underdone tops.
• When in doubt, underbake rather than overbake your cookies. The edges may or may not be turning brown, but the top should appear baked, not shiny (shiny means the dough is melted but not yet baked)

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