Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies. What more do you want?

This recipe is scaled to make around 40 cookies and takes about 1 hour.

Ingredients

• 2.75 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1.5 tsp salt
• 2 sticks (8 oz) butter, softened
• 1.75 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 lb dark chocolate chips

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients except chocolate chips.
2. Seal in a plastic bag and let rest in the refrigerator at least 30 minutes; preferably overnight.
3. Preheat oven to 350° F.
4. Mix chocolate chips into the dough.
5. Cover a pan with parchment paper. Spoon out dough into medium-size balls, roughly 2 inches apart.
6. Bake 15 minutes in the middle rack.

Notes

• If you add a little extra salt, the cookies will taste interesting. Not good or bad per se, but interesting.
• Add ~0.5 cup cocoa powder to make double-chocolate cookies.