There is nothing quite like a chocolate chip cookie to make a blue day brighter. Children beg for them, and love to help make them. If you don't keep careful watch, they disappear faster than you can bake them! Even grandpa will snitch a few when you turn your back!
The very best chocolate chip cookie I have ever tasted is in an oatmeal cookie base, with pecans for an extra crunch.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip, Pecan Cookies
3 cup sifted flour
2 tsp. Soda
2 tsp. Salt
2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 white sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp. Hot water
1 1/2 cup chopped pecans
2 lg. Pkg. Chocolate chips
2 tsp. Vanilla
4 cups quarterly oatmeal (not quick cooking kind)
Sift flour once before measuring, and then sift with soda and salt. Cream shortening and add sugar gently creaming until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each. Add hot water then sift dry ingredients. Add vanilla, then nuts and chocolate chips. Mix in oatmeal gradually. Drop by 1/2 tsp. On cookies sheet and bake at 375 degrees F until cookies begin to brown around the edge. Take off the cookies from the oven and let them set for a few minutes before removing with spatula to cool.
You can also substitute peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips, or mint chips for the chocolate chips. If you are in the mood for something totally different, dice 2 cups of orange slice candies and use those instead of the chocolate chips.
If you can keep petite (and not so little) fingers out of them, they last well when stored in an air-tight container. Spend a morning with your favorite petite one(s) and make some memories.
The Best Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip, Pecan Cookies
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