• Cooking Time: 10-12 min
• Servings: 4 dozen
• Preparation Time: 15 min
• 1 C Butter-flavored shortening
• 1/2 C Butter
• 1 1/2 C Sugar
• 1 C Brown Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 Egg Yolk
• 2 Tsp vanilla
• 2 1/4 C Flour
• 1 Tsp Baking Powder
• 1 Tsp Baking Soda
• 1 Tsp Salt
• 1 bag chocolate chips
• Reynold's parchment paper

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Cream butter shortening, butter, sugar and brown sugar together until smooth
3. Add egg, egg yolk and vanilla and combine until smooth
4. Add all dry ingredients and mix until incorporated
5. Fold in chocolate chips
6. Line cookies sheets with Reynold's Parchment paper and drop by rounded teasponfuls onto sheets
7. Bake in oven for approximately 10-12 minutes
8. Remove from oven and let cook on sheets for 5 minutes
9. Remove from sheets/paper and cool on cooling rack for approximately 15 minutes.

I've always loved chocolate chip cookies ever since I started baking them in elementary school. Over the past couple of years I've taken different components of recipes I've liked and added a couple of other things and came up with this recipe I've now included in this email. It means a lot to me because it's 'my' first recipe. I bake a lot, but I don't really have any other recipes to call my own.