Nana’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’ve definitely been copying and pasting these cookie recipes!

The one I am sharing is a famous one in my family. If you participated in eating the lunch my Grandma Carol provided on our wedding day, I have no doubt you will remember these cookies! If you didn’t get one, it’s possible because they didn’t last long! They never do! I don’t make cookies often, but these are my go-to. I get compliments on them every time. The trick is about the same as every other cookie – don’t over bake! Enjoy!

1 cup shortening
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 1/2 cups white sugar
3 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
5 1/4 cups unsifted flour (I usually use more like 4 1/2 - 4 3/4 cups)
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 large package chocolate chips
(nuts are optional)

Combine shortening, butter and sugars. Stir until well blended.
Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Combine flour, salt and soda together, then add to the batter.
Mix until well blended. It will look like it is too much flour mixture, but it will eventually stir in.
Then add chocolate chips and nuts and stir.
Drop spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper (the parchment paper is one of the secrets!).
Bake at 375* for 7 – 10 minutes and no more. Take them out before they look done. My oven is 7 minutes and my Grandma’s is 10, so it will vary by oven.

Enjoy! This makes a lot, so feel free to freeze the leftovers or bring them to our house :)