Mama B's Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe comes courtesy of my sweet daughter-in-law. Her beloved grandmother on her mom's side, Mama B, used to make these. Isn't it great to have a recipe like this from someone special? Every time you make it, you can almost feel the person next to you...guiding you and approving. I have a recipe like that from MY grandmother so I know how my DIL and her family must feel every time they make a batch of these cookies. Mama B isn't here anymore but a little bit of her lives on in this recipe. Give these a try....they are SO yummy! I was always a Tollhouse girl...thinking THAT recipe couldn't possibly be improved on. Boy, was I wrong. Mama B's CCC's shine above Nestle's. Plus...as an added bonus, I get to imagine Mama B next to me in the kitchen...maybe telling me the story of how her family used to beg her to make these and how happy it made them. I hope these cookies make MY family happy too. And from the look on their faces yesterday, I'd say I succeeded. Thanks, Mama B!


Mama B's Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper

Ingredients:

Wet:
4 Eggs2 Sticks Butter-Flavored Crisco2 teaspoons Vanilla

Dry:
 4 1/2 Cups Flour
1 Cup Sugar
1 Box Light Brown Sugar 
2 teaspoons Salt
2 teaspoons Baking Soda
1 12-oz. Bag Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (or substitute chips for your favorite candy pieces; ie- butterscotch chips, m&m minis, chocolate chunks, walnuts, etc.)

Combine wet ingredients first into large mixing bowl.  Then slowly add dry ingredients one at a time.  Mix well.  Drop tablespoon-size pieces of dough on prepared pans.  Bake for about 10-11 minutes.  Recipe makes a LOT of cookies - probably at least 6 dozen, if not more. 

(Because my family cannot eat 6 dozen cookies (or maybe they could but I chose not to give them that option) I cut this recipe in half when I made it.)

The goods!

 

Creaming the wet ingredients.....

 

...adding the dry.

 

Coming together!

Add the chocolate chips!

 

Plop on the cookie sheets.

 

Bake 'em!

 

I loaded this pan with dough balls 

and put it in the freezer for a couple of hours.

 

Cookie dough balls all frozen 

and ready to be baked at a moment's notice!

 

Who wants a cookie?