Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies

prep time:: 15 min
total time:: 23 min

Makes 36 cookies

These cookies are especially delicious right out of the oven. I like to use miniature chocolate morsels because I think they yield a denser cookie, but you can use whatever type of chocolate chip you have on hand.

ingredients

3/4 cup Crisco shortening
1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
2 tbsp milk
1 tsp good vanilla extract
1 egg
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

directions

1
Preheat oven to 375.
2
Combine Crisco, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Mix into creamed mixture until just blended. Fold in chocolate chips.
3
Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough 3 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake one sheet at a time. Do not overbake.
4
*Optional: Substitute 1 cup loosely chopped pecans for 1/2 cup chocolate chips.