I’ve teamed up with five fabulous bloggers to share our favorite cookie recipes! I’m so excited because I love a good holiday cookie! My absolute favorite cookie is a fresh-out-of-the-oven classic chocolate chip cookie. A little backstory on me, I didn’t grow up making from-scratch cookies. If we were going to have cookies in our house, it was normally prepackaged Chips Ahoy. The closest thing that came to scratch was the Tollhouse raw cookie dough.

But after I became a mother, I was determined to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch for Christmas Eve. I wanted to have memories of making cookies with my (then) only child, eating one or two and then leaving the rest for Santa. It took a couple of recipes, but I finally found the perfect one and I’m so excited to share it with you all. It is soft and chewy and has always been a big hit with everyone that tries them.

We love them so much, they aren’t just our Christmas cookies, we make these year-round! 🙂 And that only child from so many Christmases ago is now twelve and the oldest of five (almost six!) kiddos and she can now make the recipe all by herself!

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are our favorite! We bake them Christmas Eve (and, really, the rest of the year too!). They are soft and perfect right out of the oven.

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Servings 3 dozen

Ingredients

  

• 2 ¼ cup all purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 cup butter 2 sticks
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Whisk together flour and baking soda in small bowl, set aside.
• Using an electric mixer with paddle attachment, combine butter with both sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Reduce speed to low and add salt, vanilla, and eggs. Beat until well mixed, about a minute.
• Add flour mixture to the other ingredients in the electric mixer and mix until combined.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Drop into tablespoon size balls onto cookie sheet. We use a silicone nonstick cooking mat, but you can also use parchment paper.
• Cook 9-12 minutes. We pull ours out when the edges are golden, but the middle is still a little soft. Cookies can be stored in an air-tight container at room temperature for one week.

It’s a pretty fool-proof recipe! I hope you enjoy! Please visit these amazing bloggers and check out their holiday cookie recipes!

Holiday Cookie Exchange Recipe Swap

Reindeer Cookies – The Frugal Homemaker 

Mocha Slice Cookies- Southern Bella Home

M&M Cookies – At Home In The Wildwood

 Peppermint Twist Cookies- Jenron Designs

Iced Sugar Cookies- ForgottenWay Farms

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie- The Front Porch Farmhouse