Favorite Chocoate Chip Cookie Recipe

This is a recipe I found that just needed a little tweaking, now it's one of our favorites, it makes a lot of cookies, so you may want to cut it in 1/2 if you're just baking for your family.

4 cubes butter
2 cups sugar
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp salt (1 tsp if using salted butter)
2 tsp baking soda
1 tablespoon vanilla
5 ½ cups white flour
2 cups chocolate chips (more if you like)
2 cups nuts, optional

Place soft butter and sugar in Bosch with cookie paddles (you can make these by hand as well). Whip until creamy, add eggs (only add 2 at first, you may only need another egg white, or the other eggs depending on their size of the eggs and texture of the dough) whip until blended. Add salt and soda with flour. Mix well, add chips and nuts if desired. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10 to 13 minutes, or until light brown. Do not over-bake. Cookies are better slightly undercooked and cooled on cookie sheet to remain soft.

Yield – About 6 dozen (it’s usually a bit more unless you make the cookies rather large).

Variations:
Butter Sugar Cookies – use 4 cups of white sugar, and prepare as otherwise directed (don’t add chocolate chips).

Lemon Cookies – use 4 cups of white sugar, 1 tsp of lemon extract. You can roll the dough in powdered sugar before baking if you’d like.