Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies

There is nothing earth shattering in this post, just simple chocolate chip cookies.  This cookie dough batter can be thrown together in 15 minutes.  Well, 15 uninterrupted minutes.  Maybe the only thing interesting is that I don't usually cook the dough right away.  Spending some time now, saves me later.  This day I inadvertently cut out some calories too.  Interested now, read on!

It starts with butter.  Please don't substitute.  If  you are going to eat a cookie, eat a good cookie.

Sugar too!

Looks like normal batter to me!

After adding flour, baking soda, salt and the chocolate chips, the batter seemed a tad bit dry.  But not dry enough to make me think twice.

Grab some parchment paper and a scooper!

Now it's time to enlist a helper.  Let him eat cookie dough after every 25 scoops.  Tell him how awesome of a cookie dough scooper he is!

The results:  140 cookie dough scoops, and one 5 year old who just had a lesson in working hard and finishing a job all the way.

Now off to the freezer!

One frozen through, place in freezer bag.

Here is why I freeze.

1.  Time saver!  Frozen cookie dough is very convenient.  We can enjoy a dozen, fresh baked cookies, at anytime without the clean-up.

2.  Portion control.  It keeps me and my family from eating 3 dozen cookies in two days.........well, sometimes.  It's so easy to throw a dozen in the oven.  If my better half knows about the stash we end up with cookies almost everyday.

3.  Money saver.  If I have a stash in the freezer it keeps me from buying this higher priced alternative....

Curious about those inadvertently omitted calories mentioned above?  There must be a reason I goofed. I'd blame kids, but they weren't around when the batter was made.  Maybe I drank one too many iced coffees.

I usually double the cookie recipe, as I did this day.  Do you remember the first picture?  Two sticks of butter.  Read the recipe below.  Okay, if I double it I need 4 sticks.  What!  Leaving out those two sticks of butter erased 1,600 calories from the recipe.  That's about 12 calories a cookie.  You'll eat at least two so it's more like 24.  Fleeting thought- maybe I should cook with less butter.

Oddly enough the cookies baked up okay, and the food critic my husband didn't even notice.  Honestly, neither did I.  It only popped into my mind when I sat down to write this post!  Thank goodness I froze the entire batch.  Once baked, I don't think these cookies would stay moist for more than a day.

Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies


1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
Mix above listed ingredients until well blended in a mixer.  While your mixer is on stir add:
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
Stir for 2 minutes.  Add chocolate chips, stir until incorporated.  Bake at 375 degrees for about 8 minutes.

To bake frozen cookie dough I just take the cookie scoops out of the freezer, place them on a lined cookie sheet and wait for the oven to preheat.  Cook for same time as noted above.