National Chocolate Chip Day and The Recipe

National Chocolate Chip Day celebrates and enjoys sweet, tasty chocolate chips. Chocolate chips are a great invention, and certainly deserve a little recognition. After all, where would chocolate chip cookies, cakes and muffins be without the chocolate chip!? Chocolate chips are popular in cooking and baking, for a wide variety of breads, cakes, and cookies.


There is an almost endless number of recipes. They are also used in decorating. Have you ever had chocolate chip pancakes? How about chocolate chips in trail mix? If you've never had these, then you're leading a sheltered life. Rare is the leftover chocolate chip. If you don't use the whole bag, you and/or your kids will likely eat them as a snack before they make it to the storage container. There are many recipes for having a successful National Chocolate Chip Day. And, every one of them includes chocolate chips.

Recipe of Chocolate Chip Cookies

         Ingredients:

3/4

cup granulated sugar

3/4

cup packed brown sugar

1

cup butter or margarine, softened

1

teaspoon vanilla

1

egg

2 1/4

cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour

1

teaspoon baking soda

1/2

teaspoon salt

1

cup coarsely chopped nuts

1

package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips (2 cups)

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 375ºF. 
2.Mix sugars, butter, vanilla and egg in large bowl. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt (dough will be stiff). 
Stir in nuts and chocolate chips. 
3. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. 
4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). 
Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet. Cool on wire rack.