Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies!

These cookies are wonderful because they don't flatten out and they stay soft!!

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Yields: 48 cookies

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup margarine
• 1  cup brown sugar
• 1  cup white sugar
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1  teaspoon lemon juice
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 2  eggs
• 4  cups flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1  cup chocolate chips (more or less to taste)
•  nuts (optional)

Directions

1. Cream together butter, margarine and sugars.
2. Next add vanilla, lemon juice, eggs, and salt.
3. Stir in dry ingredients.
4. Make cookies desired size.
5. (They turn out very well if you roll the dough into a ball then flatten it some onto the cookie sheet).
6. Bake at 350 degrees for about 13 minutes.
7. Makes around 4 dozen.