Kristin's Ultimate Chocolate Chippers (Chocolate Chip Cookies)

***Room temp eggs, freeze dough for 45 min before cooking***

¼ c melted butter (or shortening)

¾ c shortening

1/2 c white sugar

1 1/4 c packed brown sugar

2 eggs at room temp + 1 egg yolk

1 tsp vanilla

3 3/4 c flour..(the dough should be firm and slightly sticky, but not too sticky.

3/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

12 oz chocolate chips

• Melt ¼ cup butter in the microwave.
• Add the shortening into a large mixing bowl. Combine the butter and the shortening completely.
• Add the white sugar & brown sugar, and vanilla. 
• Add room temperature eggs and 1 egg yolk and combine until fully incorporated. 
• Combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix with a whisk till the dry ingredients are fluffy and well combined.
• Adding a cup at a time, add the flour. The extra egg yolk and the melted butter make the dough sticky. Add  as much as you need to make the dough more firm, but not too firm, but not too sticky. A good place to stop is when it barely sticks to your fingers. 
• 1 Add chocolate chips.
• Freeze the dough. 45min -to h in the freezer or overnight in the fridge. 
•         *Cookies are the best, however, when you chill them in the fridge for 36 hours. The flour relaxes and the butter chills.

A handy trick, is to scoop the dough out into 1 inch sized balls, and place them on a cookie sheet, and then put them in the fridge.

*You want your dough to be cold. It gives the butter less time to spread out in the oven, making your cookies thicker but still chewy. Any handling with your hands will counter act this, so do it as little as possible.

• Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees. The hotter temperature still cooks the cookie but gives it less time to spread out in the oven. 
• Cookies like space, and will spread out if they have room. Place them about 1-2 inches apart. Cook cookies for 9 minutes. 
• The cookies will continue to cook while on the sheet. Leave them there! If they have the air from the cooling rack they will get drier, so scoop them off after 3 minutes, then place them on rack.

from Kristin Sumbot