These famous chocolate chip cookies will quickly become a favorite in your recipe collection. They’re crisp around the edge and soft on the inside, loaded with delicious flavor and filled with sweet gooey warm chocolate in each bite.
My mom made these cookies for us, neighbors, church members and friends growing up and they became sort of famous because they are perfectly scrumptious every time!
What’s better than a warm cookie with gooey chocolate in the center and a crispy outer edge? Add a glass of milk and life doesn’t get much happier! Simple joys.
I decided to experiment with this recipe and try using Hershey’s Symphony bars instead of chocolate chips. I absolutely love the creamy milk chocolate flavor of these chocolate bars, and I think they are really what take these cookies to the next level! If you don’t have them though, regular milk chocolate chips are incredible and so delicious in this recipe, too!
Famous Chocolate chip cookies
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 350° degrees F.2. Cream together butter, shortening, sugars, eggs and vanilla.3. Add salt and baking soda.4. Now your flour, allowing the mixture to fully absorb and incorporate it. It is VERY important that you measure the flour precisely as it will affect the texture of the cookies if it is off. I like to scoop the flour and then use a butter knife to scrape it level. 5. Chop your Symphony bars and add in, or a bag of milk chocolate chips. We also love mini M&M's! Mix until evenly distributed.6. Add cookie dough scoops to a cookie sheet WITHOUT non-stick spray, or use a parchment sheet to line it. 7. Drop a heaping tablespoon's-worth of dough for each cookie onto baking sheet. (12 cookies per sheet)8. Bake for 10-11 minutes or until just barely golden around the bottom edge of the cookie. You want the cookies to be very soft inside! Watch them closely near the end. Ovens all bake differently and most need calibrated so check them at the end of the 10 minutes. Allow to cool for a few minutes to set, then transfer to a cooling rack. These cookies are fantastic warm, but also stay very soft in a ziplock bag. They freeze very well in a ziplock bag if you need to make them ahead. Recipe makes just over 2 1/2 dozen.
Notes
There is nothing better than hearing my kids run downstairs to say “Mom! What are you baking?” I love offering them a fresh baked treat from the oven and watching their faces as they smile and say “yum! I want another!”
My daughter ALWAYS asks if I remembered to add love into the mix. 🙂 Sure did, little lady! I hope you enjoy making memories in the kitchen as you bake this recipe with and for your family.
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