Big Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies

I like my cookies thick and chewy rather than thin and crispy. If you do too, then here's the recipe you should try.

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Yields: 20 cookies

Ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup  Crisco
• 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, softened but still firm
• 1  cup  lightly packed dark brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
• 1  large  whole egg
• 1  large  egg white
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 10  ounces chocolate chips (about 1 3/4 cups) or 10  ounces  semisweet chocolate chunks (about 1 3/4 cups)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Beat Crisco and butter in a medium bowl with back of a wooden spoon until pretty smooth but with a few harder pieces till left (about 1 minute).
3. Add sugars and beat until well blended.
4. Add egg, egg white and vanilla and beat until smooth.
5. Mix together flour, baking powder and salt and stir into butter mixture.
6. Fold in chocolate chips.
7. For each cookie, shape 2 tablespoons of dough into a ball with your fingers and place on parchment-lined cookie sheet with 1 1/2-inches between cookie dough.
8. Bake 14 minutes or until tops are well browned.
9. Slide parchment paper onto wire racks to cool.
10. Repeat with remaining dough and fresh sheets of parchment paper.