Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is my brother-in-law's recipe and I've got to say, it makes the best darn cookies out there. During the holidays, I make them with Andes peppermint chips (as pictured), but they're also phenomenal with Guitard or Guiardelli milk chocolate chips--you've got to make sure to buy good chocolate for these cookies, or why make them?

Ingredients:

• 1/2 C sugar
• 1/2 C brown sugar
• 1/3 C butter (melted and cooled slightly)
• 1/3 C shortening
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 C flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 6 oz milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix sugars, butter, shortening, egg and vanilla in a mixer. Sift flour, baking soda and salt together. Combine ingredients and mix by hand. Add chocolate and stir to combine. Roll dough into walnut-sized balls and bake on baking stone for 10 minutes (they will look undercooked). Makes 24 cookies.

Send all the cookies to work with your husband so you don't eat an entire batch.

139 calories in 1 cookies, 6.8 g fat (2.8 g saturated)