Shelly's Recipe

BUTTERSCOTCH CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Category: Cookies

1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
10 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
6 oz bittersweet chocolate, cut into 1/4 inch pieces
6 oz milk chocolate, cut into 1/4-inch pieces

2 cookie sheets or jelly roll pans lined with parchment or foil

Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350. Stir the flour, baking soda, and salt together and set aside.

Combine the butter, brown sugar, and vanilla, then beat in the egg. (Overbeating this type of cookie dough will make the cookies rise, then flatten out during baking, instead of remaining risen and moist.) Remove the bowl from the mixer and use a large rubber spatula to stir in the flour mixture, then the chocolate.

Drop tsp of the dough 2 to 3 inches apart on the prepared pans to allow for spreading. Bake the cookies until they are spread, well risen, and golden, about 15 minutes. About halfway through the baking, place the pan from the lower rack on the upper one and vice versa, turning the pans back to front at the same time. If you know that your oven gives off strong bottom heat, place the pan on the lower rack stacked on top of a second one for insulation. Slide the parchment papers off the pans to cool the cookies.