Chocolate Chip Cookies

Anyone who knows me knows that I love to bake. I'm not much of a cook (and trust me there's a big difference). Lately my old chocolate chip cookie recipe has been failing horribly. I found a recipe online that looked promising. So I tried it out and HOLY COW AMAZING! These cookies could easily pass for bakery bought. They're big, chewy, and have tons of chocolate chips. I like this recipe so much that I wanted to share.

Big, Fat, Chewy, Chocolate Chip Cookies (with this name who wouldn't want to try it out?)

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt. Set aside.
2. Cream together melted butter, and both sugars until well blended. Beat in vanilla, egg and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in dry ingredients until just blended. Stir in chocolate chips. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes. Until dough is stiff.
3. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Lightly grease cookie sheet. Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time onto prepared cookie sheet about 3 inches apart.
4. Bake for 15-19 minutes or until edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

*hint the top of the cookies will appear slightly uncooked when you pull them out but will harden up a little while they are cooling. Yields 15-18 cookies.