Chewy Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 12 oz chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Beat in eggs.
- Add baking soda, salt, and vanilla.
- Mix in flour and cocoa.
- Stir in chocolate chips and nuts (optional).
- Drop by spoonfuls onto cookie sheets. Bake 9-10 minutes.
- Allow to cool on cookie sheets for ten minutes before moving to cooling racks.
- Substitute mint chips for half the chocolate chips or Andes mint pieces for all the chocolate chips and omit nuts for a mint chocolate cookie.
- Makes approximately 4 1/2 dozen.