Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is my absolute FAVORITE chocolate chip cookie recipe! I adapted it from a recipe I found on allrecipes.com (one of my favorite recipe sites to browse through, mainly because it has reviews for it's recipes and the reviews are VERY helpful). Depending on the size of cookies you are making this recipe can make up to 6 dozen (these are small cookies), but if you are making cookies the size I like... it's probably closer to 3-4 dozen!

Ingredients

2 Cups Softened Butter

1 1/2 Cups Brown Sugar

1/2 Cup Sugar

2 (3.4 oz) Packages Instant Vanilla Pudding

2 tsp Baking Soda

4 eggs

2 tsp Vanilla Extract

4 1/2 Cups Flour

1 (12 oz package, which is about 4 cups) Chocolate Chips**

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350° F.

In a large bowl cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding, baking soda, eggs, and vanilla until well blended. Add flour gradually until all mixed together. Finally stir in chocolate chips.

Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Make sure they are at least an inch apart (depending on how big of spoonfuls you are making you may need more space).

Bake for 9-12 minutes. Edges should be golden brown.

**DELICIOUS VARIATIONS**

Nutty:

If you like nuts you can just add 2 cups of nuts (I recommend using walnuts) to the above recipe.

White Chocolate Chip Cranberry:

This is one of my FAVORITE combinations and I feel better with adding the cranberries when I eat the cookies!!! For this variation use 1 (12 oz) package of white chocolate chips and 2 cups of dried sweetened cranberries.

For Kids:

When making chocolate chip cookies for kids I like to use the Mini-Morsels chocolate chips, then I make the cookies small and it's just right for them!

Everything but the kitchen sink:

Ok... for this one you add a little bit of everything, you can pick your favorites or add anything else you think sounds yummy!

1 Cup Heath pieces

1 Cup Butterscotch chocolate chips

1 Cup White Chocolate Chips

1 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips

1/2 cup Walnuts

Death by Chocolate
If you LOVE chocolate (like I do) you can use chocolate pudding instead of vanilla!