chocolate chip cookies with butter

My cookies and scones are baked.  The packages are mailed.  I am truly at a mndset of I got this step done today.  I am not going to get everything done for Christmas.  I am probably not going to get everything done for the Tall Short Person and Koda Bear moving in before they get here. 

As long as everyone has a place to sleep, I think we can go forward.  My Beloved purchased the wood to build the bed yesterday.  I am going to put an email together for hm shortly with the cut lengths.  That way the pieces may be cut before he leaves to drive the Tall Short Person back.  I will not have to go looking for a saw then.  I will just need the screw gun and a hammer.  I also will need to decide what color this bed should be.  I did not even think I would need to decide that.

I have had a friend ask if I sleep.  I also had a friend ask if the corporation I am working at has swallowed me.  I am not getting as much sleep as I would like because sleep is a competitive sport and I am losing.  I added the corporate contract gig but did not remove anything that I had started after the last time I left.  I never feel like there are enough hours in the day for what I wish to do.  I really feel like there are not enough hours now.  But it is still one task at a time.  

I chose not to stop doing anything that I enjoy or makes me happy.  And after the first of the year, I get to learn more building.  A truck cabin is going to be built on the back of my truck for mobile sharpening.  I am hoping that just maybe it could be flexible enough with a good deep clean, that I could use it for camping as well.  That shoulder style camping where a place out of the wind and rain is a good thing.

Now, cookies.  My Dad always like his chocolate chip cookies made with vegetable shortening because it makes them soft.  Me, I like butter because shortening!  The flavor is just better.  After the success with the molasses cookies I decided to give it a try.  He may say these are not right but they are awfully good.

chocolate chip cookies with butter

Note:  The starting point of these cookies were Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies.  My favorite.

1 cup butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon water

2 eggs

3 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking soda (I may be decreasing this measure as I use this recipe)

1/2 to 1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit

Cream the butter, brown sugar, sugar, vanilla, and water together in a medium bowl  until light and fluffy.

Mix in the eggs.  Mix in the flour, salt, and baking soda.  Mix in the chocolate chips.  I like chocolate chip cookies that are not too chippy so I usually go with a smaller portion of chips.

Onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or silpat, drop spoonfuls of dough.  Or you can make them into one inch balls if you wish a more uniform shape.  

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until golden but use your own taste for how gooey you wish them.

They turned out well.  I probably will tweak because that is what I do but maybe not too much.