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The Best Cookie Base

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time45 minutes
Servings: 3 dozen

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter softened (2 sticks)
  • ¾ cup white sugar
  • ¾ cup brown sugar packed
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2-1/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 cups mixins of choice up to 3 cups

Instructions

  • Cream together the butter and the sugars until light and fluffy
    1 cup butter, 3/4 cup white sugar, 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • Add in the eggs, one at time until fully incorporated
    2 large eggs
  • Add the vanilla
    1 tsp vanilla
  • Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt
    2-1/4 cup all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt
  • Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture. I ditch the mixer and use a gloved hand. This keeps the dough from being over mixed and making tough cookies
  • Add in your mixins of choice - up to 3 cups combined
    3 cups mixins of choice
  • Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silpat pad.
  • Drop in roughly 1-1/2" round balls on your lined cookie sheet. 12-15 to a sheet.
  • Bake for 10-12 mins, until brown around the edges.

Notes

Pontential mixins. Your imagination is the limit: 
  • Chocolate chips (semi-sweet, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate)
  • Peanut butter chips
  • M&Ms
  • Reese's Pieces
  • Nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds)
  • Pretzel bits
  • Heath bits
  • Bacon bits - not the fake ones, but real bits of crumbled bacon that you've just cooked up. Trust me on this one. They're amazing in these cookies.