Until golden brown

Along the walkways and byways of Main Street U.S.A. are many ornate display windows. Among the windows, near the entrance to the Main Street Bakery, is a window stocked with mixing bowls, cookies, eggs, milk and a cookbook. Conveniently, the book has been marked for, and opened to, a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

If the weather in your area is as cold as it is here, a nice warm plate of cookies might just be what the doctor ordered. If it isn’t cold in your neck of the woods, well, who can say no to a chocolate chip cookie?

Here is Main Street’s window recipe:

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup butter softened
¾ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
1 cup chopped nuts


Directions:

Preheat oven to 375º F
Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Makes about 5 dozen cookies.