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Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are our favorite! We bake them Christmas Eve (and, really, the rest of the year too!). They are soft and perfect right out of the oven.
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 3 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ¼ cup all purpose flour
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup butter 2 sticks
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Whisk together flour and baking soda in small bowl, set aside.
  • Using an electric mixer with paddle attachment, combine butter with both sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy.
  • Reduce speed to low and add salt, vanilla, and eggs. Beat until well mixed, about a minute.
  • Add flour mixture to the other ingredients in the electric mixer and mix until combined.
  • Stir in chocolate chips.
  • Drop into tablespoon size balls onto cookie sheet. We use a silicone nonstick cooking mat, but you can also use parchment paper.
  • Cook 9-12 minutes. We pull ours out when the edges are golden, but the middle is still a little soft. Cookies can be stored in an air-tight container at room temperature for one week.