by Hannah Kampen

Created on: September 12, 2009

In this article, I have included two different recipes for chocolate chip cookies. The first recipe is the softest, most chewy cookies you could make - they literally melt in your mouth with a gooey center. The second recipe is a chocolate chip cookie recipe from 1942 - old fashioned goodness that your grandma used to make. I couldn't decide which of the two recipes are the best, so I had to include both!

Soft, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

For this recipe, you will need:

2 and 1/3 cups of all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

8 oz butter, or margarine, lukewarm but not melted

1 full cup of light brown sugar, packed

1/3 cup of white sugar

Small pinch of salt - about 1/2 teaspoon

1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

2 eggs and 1 egg yolk

1 and 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips

Before you get started cooking, the best thing you can do is to pre-heat your oven. Turn your oven on to 350 degrees, and let it warm up while you make the batter. Spray your cooking sheet with oil, butter, anything that you normally use to keep food from sticking. Mix your flour, salt, and baking soda into a bowl. In another bowl, cream your butter and both of your sugars together until fluffy and light. Then you add your dry mixture to this fluffy cream, and mix well. Fold in your chocolate chips by sprinkling some on top of the dough, folding the dough over itself, sprinkling more, folding again, etc. Using your hand to make little balls of dough, or a spoon to drop dough on the cookie sheet, put the dough on the pan about 2 inches apart. Place this pan in the oven and wait 9-12 minutes. (9 minutes for chewy and light, 12 minutes for crunchy cookies.) Cool, and enjoy!

Old Fashioned 1942 Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe requires:

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 cup your choice of chopped nuts

A half teaspoon of baking soda

A pinch of salt

1 and 1/2 cups f flour

1 well beaten egg

1/4 cup of brown sugar, firm

1/2 cup of white sugar

1/2 cup of shortening, butter or margarine

1 and 1/2 cups of semisweet chocolate chips

Pre-heat your oven to 375 degrees before you start on the ingredients. As with the first recipe, cream the sugars and the butter or shortening until the mixture is fluffy and light. Add the eggs to this mixture, and sit aside. Sift the flour, measure it out, add the pinch of salt and the baking soda, and sift again. Add the dry mixture in two parts to the wet mixture. Now add your chocolate, vanilla, and the nuts - you now have your finished cookie dough. Drop by the teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet every 1-2 inches. Cook for 10-12 minutes, and voila! You now have old fashioned chocolate chip cookies.

As I said, I couldn't choose which recipe to write about, so I wrote both. I hope you like the cookies these recipes make, and who knows? You may be able to combine them, and make better chocolate chip cookies!

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