The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Making a claim of being the absolute Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe is certainly subject to a challenge.

There are so many chocolate chip recipes out there how could just one be the absolute best?

"If this is not the best it's darned close!"

The Absolute Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

1 cup butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Salt
2 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp. soda, dissolved in
1 tsp. hot water
1 pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 Cup Chopped Pecans

Cream the butter and then add the sugars and cream extremely well. Beat in the eggs one at a time being sure each is fully incorporated. Add the vanilla and the salt.

Stir in 1 1/4 cups of the flour then the soda mixture. Stir in the rest of the flour. Fold in the chocolate chips and the pecans.

Cover the dough and refrigerate for at least an hour. Overnight would be ok. This allows the dough to firm up which retards excess spreading in the oven.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray or line with parchment paper. Scoop out equal amounts of dough with a cookie scoop and place on the baking sheet about 2 inches apart.

Bake at 350 degrees 10 minutes or until the edges just begin browning and the tops are still soft.

This could well be the absolute Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe but you still MUST NOT over bake.