Recipe: Olivia's old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies

From Leslie Mackie's Macrina Bakery & Café Cookbook, Sasquatch Books
Makes 16 cookies

• 2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Add chocolate chips and mix well with a spoon. Set aside.
2. Combine butter, shortening, granulated sugar and brown sugar in the
   bowl of your stand mixer. Using the paddle attachment, mix on medium
   speed for about 5 minutes, until the mixture is smooth and pale in
   color. Add 1 egg and mix until incorporated.
3. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then add the remaining egg and
   vanilla extract. Continue mixing until incorporated, about 1 minute.
   Remove the bowl from the mixer and scrape down the sides again.
4. Using a rubber spatula, fold half of the dry ingredients into the
   dough. After the first batch is fully incorporated, fold in the rest of
   the dry ingredients and continue folding until all the flour has been
   absorbed. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and cover it with plastic
   wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for a least one hour. At this point,
   the dough can be formed into cookies or stored in the refrigerator for
   up to four days.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
6. Scoop the dough out of the bowl (use a medium ice cream scoop) and roll
   the dough into 2-inch balls. Place eight of the balls on each baking
   sheet, leaving 3 inches between each fall. Flatten the balls with the
   palm of your hand to about 1- inch think. Place a sheet of cookies in
   the refrigerator while baking the other sheet.
7. Bake cookies, one sheet at a time, on center rack of oven for 15-18
   minutes each. To help the cookies bake evenly, rotate the baking sheet
   every 4 minutes or so. The finished cookies will be golden brown around
   the edges and still light in the center.
8. Let cool on the baking sheet for 15 minutes.

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