Recipe - Chewy Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookies

3 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
1 cup Cake flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 One fourth cup Sugar
1 One fourth cup Brown sugar; firmly packed
1 One half cup Butter; softened
2 Eggs
1 tablespoon Vanilla
12 ounce Semisweet chocolate chips; 2
cups, or chunks

Heat oven to 375 degrees. In medium bowl, combine flour, cake flour, baking
soda and baking powder; set aside.

In large mixer bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar and butter. Beat at medium
speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs and
vanilla. Continue beating; scrapeing bowl often until well mixed (one
minute). Reduce speed to low, continue beating, gradually adding flour
mixture until well mixed, 2 to 3 minutes. By hand, stir in chocolate chips.
Drop dough by One fourth cupfuls 2 inches apart onto cookie sheets. Bake in
preheated oven for 10 to 14 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets. Makes 26
Jumbo cookies

Note: 1 cup allpurpose flour minus 2 tablespoons can be substituted for
cake flour, but cookies will be flat and less chewy.

Cook's Tip: For 2 One half inch cookies, drop by rounded tablespoons 2 inches
apart onto cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until light golden
brown. Makes 4 dozen cookies.

Recipe by: Associated Press

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Gerald Edgerton jerrye@wizard.com on Feb
26, 1998