The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Recipe

• 1 in large mixing bowl, cream together sugars and oil.
• 2 beat in one egg at a time.
• 3 blend in vanilla.
• 4 add dry ingredients in order listed,mixing after each.
• 5 dough will be sticky mixing this dough gets tough as you add the last half of flour.
• 6 you may need to change your mixer to dough hooks in the end, before you add the choc chips & pecans -- if you have a super heavy duty mixer you could easily double the recipe, otherwise it's better mixed in two separate batches.
• 7 refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer for ease of handling.
• 8 drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheet.
• 9 bake 8-10 minutes on middle rack in oven preheated to 350 degrees.
• 10 let stand for two minutes; remove to wire.
• 11 racks to cool completely.
• 12 notes: for best results, bake cookies on a pizza stone.
• 13 you may have to increase the baking time to about 11 minutes, but do not overbake, as they will continue to harden after removing from oven.
• 14 bake only one sheet at a time.