Original Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

¾ cup sugar

¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

One 12-oz pkg (2 cups) Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate morsels

1 cup chopped nuts

Directions

Preheat oven to 375F. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate and nuts. Drop by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 9-11 minutes until edges are golden brown. 

Make 5 dozen 2 ¼” cookies.

Pan Cookie:

Spread dough in greased 15 ½ x 10 ½ x 1 inch baking pan. Bake at 375F for 20-25 minutes. Cool completely. Cut into thirty-five 2-inch squares.

Giant Toll House Cookies:

Prepare dough as directed. Drop dough by ¼ cupfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Press lightly into 3” circles. Bake at 375F for 10-12 minutes until edges are golden brown. Makes about twenty 4-inch cookies.