More winter baking

We made chocolate chip cookies tonight, and had the foresight to avoid the most tragic of our Sorry-Ass Tiny Little First World Problems (SATLFWP): cookies too big to fit in the cookie jar.



Peter has to be discouraged from eating the raw cookie dough, but otherwise the kids have matured into good little cookie helpers. They measure, mix, offer opinions and instructions, and count the cookies as I put them onto the cookie sheet.




They came out perfectly and we stacked them in the jar. Here's the recipie, with thanks to Gloria:

1 c. softenend butter or shortening
3/4 c. brown sugar
3/4 c. white sugar
1 t. vanilla
1/2 t. water
2 eggs
2 c. flour
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1 12-oz package of chocolate chips

Beat butter, sugar, vanilla, water and eggs until light and fluffy. Add flour, soda, salt. Blend into butter mixture; add chocolate chips. Drop onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for ten minutes.