Recipe - Coral Chocolate Chip Cookies

One half cup Butter; softened
One half cup Sugar; (8 tbs)
5 tablespoon Brown sugar
2 dr Vanilla extract
1 Egg
Three fourths cup Flour
1/8 teaspoon Baking soda
1 pn Salt
1 cup Chocolate chips
One fourth cup Pecans; chopped

^ In a medium bowl place the butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Cream the
ingredients together so that they are well mixed. ^ Add the vanilla extract
and egg, and mix them in. ^ Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
Add small amounts of the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and mix it in
well. ^ Add the chocolate chips and pecans, and mix them in well. ^ Form
the dough into balls that are 1" in diameter. Refrigerate them for
One half hour. ^ Preheat the oven to 325F. Cover a baking sheet with
baker's parchment paper. Place the dough balls on the sheet so that they
are 11/2" apart. Bake the cookies for 12 to 15 minutes, or until they,
brown around the edges and light brown in the center. ^ Let the cookies sit
for 15 minutes before serving them. Makes 20 to 24. [mcRecipe 18 Aug 96
patH]

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #205

Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 16:29:41 0700 (PDT)

From: PatH phannema@wizard.ucr.edu
NOTES : Located in the Sheraton Hotel, the chef serves contemporary
California cuisine in a gardenlike setting. He claims he eats 4
or 5 of these cookies a day, to get his chocolate fix. From: So.
Calif Beach Recipe, Stromquist and Stromquist (1990).