5 Star Chocolate Chip Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, room temp
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 1/2 teaspoons hot water
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 cups chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 cream together butter, both sugars and vanilla. (when you add vanilla to any recipe, add it to the fat, this being the butter/oil, and the flavor will be more noticeable.).
• 3 beat in eggs one at a time.
• 4 dissovle baking soda in hot water. add to batter.
• 5 add salt.
• 6 slowly add flour.
• 7 stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
• 8 drop onto ungreased cookie sheet, about 1 inch apart.
• 9 bake for about 10 minutes or until edges are just brown.
• 10 take out of oven and leave them sit on the pan for about 2 minutes as they will continue to bake a bit outside of the oven.