High Altitude Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These cookies turned out perfect.  Just be sure to have the butter at room temperature before starting.  I reduced the salt because I only buy salted butter, and added a bit of shortening for texture.  For immediate baking I added more flour to my original recipe.  If you are baking after chilling the dough reduce the amount of flour.  Bread flour will give you a more chewy texture than all-purpose flour.  We need to try these next summer in Bear Lake!

Ingredients

  • 3 sticks of butter
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1.5 cup brown sugar
  • 1.5 cup sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 5.5 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 2 cups milk-chocolate chocolate chips

Steps

    1. Preheat oven to 375F.
    2. Cream together butter, shortening and sugars. Beat well.
    3. Add eggs and vanilla, continue to beat.
    4. Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl, add to mixture.
    5. Add chocolate chips. Mix Gently.
    6. Portion, and bake immediately*
    7. Reduce oven temperature to 350F, place cookies in oven
    8. After 10 minutes rotate top to bottom, front to back.
    9. Watch oven closely! Cookies will be done in 5-10 minutes depending on the oven. Cookies should look dry, and just a hint of golden brown.
    10. Allow cookies to continue to bake and cool on the oven sheets after removing from the oven

*if you plan on chilling and baking later, reduce amount of flour by 1/4 cup.

Cookie Math Small scoop Large scoop
Yeild 72 cookies 24 cookies

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