Brigit K Martell

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Sue Peake’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

Once David had Sue’s chocolate chip cookies, he didn’t want mine. He raved about these cookies for years. Sue finally joined David’s department and I asked for her recipe. Now I use this recipe and everyone loves them. My high school religious ed students devour them! I think the trick is beating the wet ingredients for so long. Brigit Kennedy Martell

Ingredients

  • 2/3 cup shortening
  • 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salte
  • 1 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
  • 2 cups (12 ounces package) chocolate chips (I use 2-1/2 cups)

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Thoroughly cream together shortening, butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla.
  3. Stir in the remaining ingredients. For a softer, rounder cookie, add an extra 1/2 cup flour.
  4. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool slightly before removing from the baking sheet.
  5. Makes about 6 dozen cookies.
  6. Comments: 1. Use butter, not margarine; 2. Beat the “wet” ingredients for at least 5 minutes, sometimes up to 15 minutes with an electric mixer. The batter becomes very light and fluffy. Fold the dry ingredients into the batter with a spoon – don’t use the mixer. Then add the chocolate chips; 3. Line the cookie sheets with aluminum foil. Using two teaspoons, one to scoop and one to push the cookie dough onto the cookie sheet, place twelve heaping teaspoons of dough onto each foil-lined cookie sheet; 4. Increase the over temperature to 400 degrees; 5. After the cookies have baked, lift the aluminum foil, with the cookies, from the cookie sheet and place them on the counter to cool slightly, then remove the cookies from the foil to a cooling rack to cool completely; 6. Finally, place the cooled cookies very carefully into a “Charles Cookie” tin.  Enjoy!

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