best ever chocolate chip cookies

okay...i know everyone knows how to make chocolate chip cookies.

but these are really good.

my favorites.

my friend jonelle gave me a book of handwritten recipes for my wedding.

this recipe was in it.

she called them the best ever...and i do too.

first thing to do is cream together crisco and sugars.

i like butter flavor crisco.  

(there is so much wrong with that sentence - i like butter flavor crisco.)

but to make these delicious cookies...you need it.

or regular shortening is fine too.

then you add your eggs and vanilla.

this is what i think is the key to the yumminess of these cookies -

you add 1 and 1/4 tsp. baking soda dissolved in 1/4 c. water.

then the dough looks kind of funky like this...

kind of seperated...

i think it's hard to see.

maybe this.

see?

then you add the flour salt and baking powder.

then the very best part....

the chocolate!

make sure you sneak plenty of dough while you bake.

and if i am feeling nice...i save a little for lauren...her favorite part.

now to bake them.

if i am feeling lazy i put all the dough in a sheet cake pan and make bars.

(i don't know why my blog is double spacing! it's making me crazy!)

but i didn't have sheet cake until last year.

it's just something i never bought.  weird right?

so for the past 13 years i just make regular old cookies.

i like them just as much but i tend to burn things (ADD) so the bars are easier.

now just sit back and wait for someone to ring your doorbell

with 50 balloons, a tiara and a plaque that says Mother-of-the-Year.

surely it will happen one of these days right?

recipe is on the sidebar.

*edited: the family thing by the cookies is a sweet gift from my MIL.

it says "family is born out of the laughter of Heaven. 

why else would we delight in wiping runny noses 

and birthdays that aren't our own."

Comments

[mom]

Since I also make Jonelle's cookies, I'm waiting for that award too! These are the best.

[Beth]

They look really yummy, but I'm partial to real butter. I have to say I've never used butter flavored crisco (or crisco at all) in cookies, but I've heard cookies made with it are really good . . . but real butter, mmmmmmmmm. Yours look worth trying though, maybe right now!

[foreverfoldinglaundry]

I, too, am a chocolate chip bar kind of girl. I wish I hadn't seen these. I'm now craving them! Now I have a project for tomorrow.

[Trish]

YUMmmmmMYYYYY!!!

I have never used butter FLAVORED crisco before. I actually didn;t even know there was such a thing. I am a REAL butter girl. But I do love me some good cookies, so I'll give this a try.

Amen to bars......

[Christy]

Meg, First have to say I love your blog! You & your family are a very entertaining read. I often relate, even tho I only have one munchkin, but sometimes he feels like 5. :)

I know I am in the minority here, but I am not a choc fan, but I wil try these! They look yummy!

PS. If you haven't tried a baking stone yet, they are almost impossible to burn cookies on. I use Pampered Chef, but any would work.

[Jenny]

I WILL make these.

[shelli]

your blog is so entertaining! i love to read..i also love that you love photography!!

[Suzanne]

yay!! you never disappoint! sounds like a perfect something to do with the hurricane coming our way...that is if we still have electricity:)

can't wait to try 'em!

[crystal]

i'm definitely going to try that recipe one day soon. my family loves chocolate chip cookies.

[southernseven]

Do they mail well? My address is......

[Toni]

I have to try these it's starting to get cool here so great time to bake....Your blog is such a great read...thanks ,Toni

[PamperingBeki]

I'll be right over with those balloons. Hopefully you still have cookies to share.

I do love me some chocolate. We can sit and have coffee and chocolate while our kids wreck the house. Sounds fun, right?

[Diana Cornielle]

Yum! Thanks so much for the recipe! I just started reading your blog and bookmarked it with a link on my blog so I won't loose you! Lol. I also want to say that I love your house (with all the laundry and everything!) Great photos! Happy Thursaday!

[traci]

yummmmmmmy. i need to make some of those. but first i need to go get one of those mixers. can you believe i don't have one. probably because i don't bake hardly at all because if i bake it, I EAT IT. so my poor family suffers. but you have inspired me. plus, i'm with lauren, love the dough!!!

[Queenie Bee]

Cute post! We'll have to try them...especially in bar form as those look delish!

Okay, and you've just GOT to share that quote that is sneeking in that last photo. I can already tell that I'll like it. :)

[Jill]

Oh yum!! Your T.V. alter ego is simple... Rachel Ray mixed in with a little Marlo Thomas in That Girl. :) You'll have to go to Melissa Ellen's website and check out her alter ego!! It's a good one. :)

[Kelly]

Sounds yummy! We have those spin and saver containers too. My favorite. Happy Mothering! Kelly

[lee ann]

Anna just asked this morning if we could make cookies after school today. I'm always on the hunt for the BEST choc chip cookies.....even though I can't eat them :-( I think today will be a bar day. She loses interest by the time we start the baking any way.

[mallory Heffronm]

They look so yummy, I will have to make me some

[Laura]

Oh my . . .that was mean ;) Just mean! I want cookies sooo bad!!!

[Ashlie]

Hi! I have been a "lurker" for quite awhile now and finally decided that I just HAD to tell you how GREAT you are!! I love the realness (is that a word?) of your blog. Whenever I click over to your page, I immediately feel calmed. And your pictures are amazing!! What kind of camera do you use, if you don't mind me asking? My blog is private, so you can e-mail me the answer at ash_kat81@yahoo.com. If you have a minute, that is. I know you've got your hands full! Take care and keep up the wonderful posts!!

[kara]

You have evoked a serious craving within my soul, delicious cookie dough.

Yummmm

[that girl]

Thanks! It's been a rough week, I may make these this weekend.

[jennifer]

I love the idea of making them into bars. I know what I'm doing this weekend.

And like Queenie Bee, I'd love to know what that quote is that you've gotten written on the index card. It looks like a good one.

[julie]

Okay, so butter flavor Crisco is just about the creepiest ingredient in the world. But you know what, I use it every single time I make cookies. I have to pretend that I am not.... but the taste makes it so worth it. Even if it might make me die.

[Rachel]

Yummmmmmmmy.....thanks for sharing that; they look awesome...can't wait to taste them. You both look soooo happy cooking together...you make me want to leave work right now and bake!

[Sharla]

We made these last night and my 4-year-old couldn't stop sneaking them out of the container this morning! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!

[carissa]

dad gum it... i need these... supposed to be on a "diet"!

looks yummy... hmmmmmm

[Queenie Bee]

Thanks so much for the edit! I love that quote and will put it on our chalkboard in the kitchen. :)

[McGee]

My two year old and I made these cookies last night - complete with the butter flavored Crisco. OMG - they are amazing! You weren't kidding when you said they were the best thing ever!

My husband, btw, refers to you as "the chicken enchilada lady in Kansas." I made your chicken enchiladas two weeks ago, using fresh tortillas from a local grocer here in Texas and homemade tomatillo sauce. He was in heaven! I have a feeling we'll be making them quite frequently. :)

[Wendy Hagen]

If pictures were edible, I would eat that last one. Please ship them to me. Thanks.