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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies EVER! – Kali’s Cookies

in Lifestyle on 01/08/18

This week, in honour of my daughters birthday I’ve decided to share with you a family fave.  A (not so) top secret recipe for the best chocolate chip cookies you will ever make.  I used to bake them so often my youngest quickly mastered this recipe all on her own.  Now I dare say she makes them faster, and maybe even better than her Mom.  So in celebration of her Birthday week, yes, we celebrate for a week around these parts,  I’ve decided to give to you a very special gift:  our secret recipe for Kali’s Cookies.  I hope you will give them a try with your family and love them as much as we do.

Kali’s Cookies.  A Family Tradition.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup margarine
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar – tightly packed
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (don’t skimp on the chocolate chips!)

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • In a medium-sized bowl, mix together with a whisk, the flour, salt, powder, and soda. Set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, cream together the margarine, white sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla, beating until smooth and fluffy.
  • Add dry mixture to margarine mixture, beating until everything is mixed well. Do not over mix.
  • Gently fold in chocolate chips.
  • By hand, form the dough into golf-ball-sized balls, and place them 2 inches apart on a parchment-paper-lined cookie sheet.
  • Bake for 9 to 10 minutes, just until the edges are beginning to brown lightly.

**It’s better to underbake these cookies slightly, so remove them from the oven while they’re still a bit soft in the middle.

**Depending on the size of balls, can make up to 4 dozen cookies.

**We have tried this recipe with butter, but it’s so much better with Becel margarine.

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    Comments

    1. DebH says

      April 15, 2018 at 2:14 pm

      Haven’t made cookies in awhile; maybe it’s time!

    2. Rosanne Robinson says

      April 8, 2018 at 10:45 pm

      Ummmmm, these cookies look & sound super yummy, thanks very much for sharing the recipe!

    3. nicky says

      March 12, 2018 at 5:40 pm

      I loooove cookies – these look so yummy!

    4. Julie says

      February 10, 2018 at 2:48 pm

      I love a great cookie recipe! My husband is cookie obsessed so happy to try new recipes! Thanks, going to try it out! Pinned for future reference!

    5. Debbie White Beattie says

      February 7, 2018 at 5:22 am

      This recipe and the pictures have me wanting cookies. What do you know, I’ve got all of these ingredients. Yippee, I’m making cookies today !!!!!

    6. Calvin says

      February 2, 2018 at 8:03 pm

      Love cookies, definitely a great recipe.

    7. Suz says

      January 12, 2018 at 12:13 pm

      I’ve never been a good cookie maker….it was my Mom’s specialty! I’ll give yours a try and Happy belated birthday to your little sweetheart!

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