Chocolate Chip Cookies

Total Time: 28 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 30
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, well packed
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 vanilla bean
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 pinch baking soda
• 1 pinch salt
• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chunks (either high quality milk or dark chocolate)
• 1 cup grated chocolate (semi-sweet or other)
• 1 cup nuts, chopped (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 in a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the softened butter with the sugars and corn syrup. beat at medium-high speed for 3 to 4 minutes until the butter is light and fluffy and much of the granular sugar is dissolved into the butter. add the egg and the scrapings from the inside of the ½ vanilla bean.
• 3 in another mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
• 4 reduce your mixer speed to medium and combine the dry ingredients into the liquid. only mix enough to fully combine the ingredients. over mixing toughens the cookie up.
• 5 using a spatula fold the chocolate chunks and shavings into the dough.
• 6 scoop mounded tablespoons of dough onto a parchment lined cookie sheet. bake for 8-9 minutes. actual baking time depends on the size of the cookie; 2 inch cookies are about 8 minutes, very large 3-4 inch cookies are more like 10-11 minutes.
• 7 remove from oven and allow them to cool for 1 minute on the sheets before removing to a wire rack.
• 8 serve with milk and a smile.