Chocolate Chip Cookies (With Pecan, if You Like)

Submitted by Katzen

"The ultimate chocolate cookie recipe - it earns rave reviews wherever you take them! Add nuts, change them to white chocolate chip macadamia nut - this is a very flexible recipe!"

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• 1 1⁄4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
• 3⁄4 cup crisco butter shortening (or 3/4 stick crisco butter shortening sticks)
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 large egg
• 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup pecan pieces (optional)

directions

1. Heat oven to 375ºF.
2. Combine brown sugar, shortening, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat in egg. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Mix into shortening mixture until just blended. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
3. Drop by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls 3-inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet.
4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes for chewy cookies (they will look light and moist), or 11 to 13 minutes for crisp cookies. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet on a cooling rack. Remove cookies to rack to cool completely.
5. TIP.
6. * If nuts are omitted, add an additional 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Reviews

[Shelby Jo]

These cookies are so great! I used milk chocolate chips instead of the semi sweet but otherwise made as directed, well besides the fact that I *accidently* dumped in the whole bag of chips :) haha. They were so delicious...a little crunch on the outside and chewy on the inside. This one's a keeper!

 

[weekend cooker]

MY OH MY !!! Very delicious cookies. I opted to use the pecans, and I made mine a little bigger. I ended up with 30. Nice , and chewy and soft. Made for Zaar Stars.

 

[diner524]

I made these this morning, as part of our Christmas cookies and they are wonderful!! I didn't have the butter flavored Crisco, so subbed 1/2 butter and the other half regular Crisco, in order to still have the butter flavor but also still have some of the texture the Crisco shortening provides. After first batch, I switched the temp. to 350 and added a little bit more flour, which isn't the recipes fault but mine for adding real butter. Thanks for sharing your great recipe!! Made for Sweet Traditions Tag Game!!

 

[Brooke the Cook in]

These were a big hit at my house - I took them to a Monday night football game and they vanished. I did use the optional pecans, which were finely chopped and used mini-chocolate chips, so there were little chips and pecan pieces in each bite.

 

[Lalaloula]

Oh, YUM, YUM, YUM!!! Kat, these cookies are pure chocolate delight! So soft on the inside with a lovely crunchy crust. Wow, I am so glad I decided to make these as I think Ive found my new favourite choc chip cookie recipe! :) Truly easy and quick to make with outstanding results! I opted out of using the nuts as Im allergic and instead added a little more chocolate to the dough (but not 1/2 cup more as that would not have fitted into my cookies lol). Also I used butter in place of shortening as that was in my fridge and real ground vanilla bean in place of the extract. The results were really, really nice. I baked my BIG cookies for 12 minutes and that was perfect! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing this gem of a recipe with us, partner! It will be made again and again! Made and reviewed for Veggie Swap #16 November 09.