Salted Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 1/2 sticks butter

1 1/4 C brown sugar

1 C white granulated sugar

Cream the above together on hight for 5 minutes until smooth.

Add 2 eggs (one at a time, mix well)

Add 2 tsp vanilla

Reduce speed and add:

1 1/4 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

3 2/3 C flour

Mix well and add one bag Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate Chips

For chewy cookies - chill for at least 1 hour

Drop spoons of dough on greased cookie sheet. 

Pinch of Sea Salt on top of each cookie dough ball. 

Bake at 350* for 18 minutes

Chocolate Chip Cookie Guru

W/ Bacon Fat

There is just something satisfying about a homemade chocolate chip cookie. The entire process is comforting and warming (and not just because the oven is turned on). My family could (and would if I let them) just eat the dough without ever having it baked. 

Chewy pieces of cookie with a chocolate chip in every bite. 

Little pillows of yumminess!

Then I stumbled across Ross Sveback who has become my chocolate chip cookie guru.

First I find his recipe for chocolate chip cookies using rendered bacon fat as the shortening. 

W/ Sea Salt

Then I find he has a Salted Chocolate Chip cookie recipe....and if that isn't good enough I finally learn (thanks to Mr. Sveback) that the trick to a chewy cookie is to let the batter sit overnight before baking!

Now I have beautiful chewy-sea-salted-dark-chocolate-chip cookies in my kitchen just asking for a cold glass of milk. 

Mmmmmm.