lindy, Author at Garden Seeds and Honey Bees

I kept trying to make different chocolate chip cookie recipes, but I still go back to this recipe that I’ve made since my children were little. I hope you will give them a try; they seem to just melt in your mouth with yummy flavor that you expect from a traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

*1 cup Butter, room temperature OR use 1/2 cup Butter Flavored Shortening and 1/2 cup Butter, room temperature

*1/2 cup White Sugar

*1 cup Brown Sugar

*3 Eggs, room temperature

*1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

*2 and 3/4 cups All-purpose Flour, 1/4 cup more only if needed (Humidity in the air can make dough sticky adjust as needed.)

*1 teaspoon Baking Soda

*1 teaspoon Baking Powder

*1/4 teaspoon Salt

*1 cup Guittard Semisweet Chocolate Chips (my favorite) or Dark Chocolate Chips or Milk Chocolate Chips

Note: I like to hand mix this recipe with wooden spoon in a medium glass bowl.

Instructions:

1. Cream together in a bowl; Shortening, butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla.

2. Add eggs one at a time, stirring until ingredients are combined.

3. Whisk together in a separate bowl the dry ingredients.

4. Add a cup at a time of the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Add more flour if needed, cookie dough should be slightly sticky. Refrigerate 1-2 hours or overnight for best results.

5. Using a cookie scoop (about 1 or 2 tablespoons per cookie dough ball), scoop 6 to 12 scoops of dough onto Silpat covered 1/2 baking sheet, or cooking spray, or parchment paper would work as well.

Do not press down cookie dough scoops/balls. (You could also top with a few chocolate chips if desired.) Keep dough chilled between batches.

6. In a pre-heated oven on 350*F. bake the cookies about 8-10 or 10-12 minutes, (depending on scoop size) or when the edges barely begin to turn a light golden color, being careful not to over bake.

Makes about 30 large to 58 small cookies, depending on scoop size.

Tip: For best results on baking any cooked or baked goods in the oven, make sure your oven is heating at the correct temperature. Use an oven thermometer to test your ovens temperature and adjust your oven temperature as needed according to oven thermometers reading.

Enjoy!

Lindy

This is the best orange cream slush I’ve ever eaten. Give it a try you will be glad you did!

Orange Creamsicle Slushie

*3 cups Simply Orange Juice

*Zest and Juice from 1 Orange

*1/2 cup Orange Cream Syrup, Victoria a snow cone syrup

*1 cup Simple Syrup (in a glass bowl add 1 cup boiling water to 1 cup sugar, letting sugar dissolve before adding to orange juice and orange cream syrup)

** Vanilla Gelato or Vanilla Ice-cream, optional

In a 4 cup glass measuring cup make the simple syrup and then add the remaining ingredients.
Then using a silicone bread pan, pour the liquid slush into bread pan (can use regular bread pan), cover with plastic wrap and freeze for 2 hours and then scrap with fork and then again scrap again when all the slush is frozen.

Serve over gelato or ice-cream or plain as an orange creamsicle slushie. Verrry Yummy!!!

We will be making more flavors of slushes so, be sure to check back!