Original Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
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INGREDIENTS
  • Cooking Time: 9
  • Servings: 60
  • Preparation Time: 15
  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
  • 1 cup chopped nuts
DIRECTIONS
  1. Directions:
  2. PREHEAT oven to 375° F.
  3. COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
  4. BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
  5. PAN COOKIE VARIATION: Grease 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan. Prepare dough as above. Spread into prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan on wire rack. Makes 4 dozen bars.
  6. SLICE AND BAKE COOKIE VARIATION:
  7. PREPARE dough as above. Divide in half; wrap in waxed paper. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm. Shape each half into 15-inch log; wrap in waxed paper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.* Preheat oven to 375° F. Cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices; place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. Makes about 5 dozen cookies.
  8. * May be stored in refrigerator for up to 1 week or in freezer for up to 8 weeks.
  9. FOR HIGH ALTITUDE BAKING (5,200 feet): Increase flour to 2 1/2 cups. Add 2 teaspoons water with flour and reduce both granulated sugar and brown sugar to 2/3 cup each. Bake drop cookies for 8 to 10 minutes and pan cookie for 17 to 19 minutes.
  10. ** In the summer I like to take two cookies and make a sandwich with vanilla ice cream. probably about 8 zillion calories, but totally delicious, and they last forever in the freezer.
  11. ** photo found here: http://www.meals.com/imagesrecipes/18476med.jpg
RECIPE BACKSTORY
I've been making these with my mom since I was tiny. Her cookies are famous in my family, and she's always getting asked to make them for church picnics. I have yet to find a better chocolate chip cookie recipe. : ) In the summer I like to take two cookies and make a sandwich with vanilla ice cream. probably about 8 zillion calories, but totally delicious, and they last forever in the freezer.