Moms Crazy Cooking Challenge Chocolate Chip Cookies !!!

This months challenge was to find a chocolate chip cookie recipe that you have never made so I went a searching .  I searched several of my favorite blogs and finally found the one I wanted to make on Cooking with Libby her Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe.

So I gathered up my ingredients and got a baking !!! You know me I have to show you the finished product first!!

Here is the recipe below or you can click on the link above .

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup butter softened

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 12 oz bag semi sweet chocolate chips

1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening and butter with an electric mixer on medium to high for 30 seconds.  Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, and baking soda.  Bea until mixture is combined, scraping sides of bow occasionally.  Beat in eggs and vanilla until combined.  Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer.  Stir in any remaining flour.  Stir in chocolate chips and if desired nuts.

Drop by Rounded teaspoons, 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet or one lined with parchment paper.  Bake at 375 for 8 to 10 minutes.  Transfer to wire rack and and let cool.

Ingredients all lined up



Here's everything mixed up and the chips added.  I used butterscotch and semi sweet, because I had two bags open. Yum.

All mixed up and on sheet ready to put in oven.

Right out of the oven . YUMMIER !



All finished and being snatched up and eatin as I was trying to take pictures !!!

This is the WORLDS BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE ever !!!

It was the most chewy and delectable, moist cookie ever.  They did not last long in my house.

So please go visit Cooking with Libby and try her recipe. I think its a true winner !!!