Special Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies

Baking cookies in January is much more fun than baking them in December.  There's no pressure. 
Just a Saturday with nothing to do but the usual laundry, cleaning and then baking cookies because you feel like it.

 I'll let you in on a little secret about me.  I like doing laundry - really. 
Turning those piles of dirty clothes on the floor into clean, nicely folded stacks is relaxing for me. 
Weird I know.

Anyway, I felt the urge to bake something.  Usually when I bake chocolate chip cookies I use my whole wheat recipe, but today I decided to do something different and I really liked how they turned out.  Thick, chewy and full of chocolate.  Yum!

Special Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies

recipe from V and Company

2 1/4 cup flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt (I only used 1/2 tsp)

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1 small package of instant vanilla pudding (3.4oz size)

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 large eggs

1 pkg. chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 

Place your butter, baking soda, salt, brown sugar, vanilla pudding, vanilla extract and eggs into a large bowl and mix until creamy.  Gradually add the flour and mix until combined.  Add chocolate chips.

I use my small Pampered Chef scoop to place the dough onto my silpat-lined cookie sheets.

Bake for 9-11 minutes.  Cool on a wire rack.  Or burn your mouth eating one or two right away, which I may or may not have done :)  Enjoy!