Dad, Therese, Shannon, and Danielle and The Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

The random generator must have known that if I made cookies for my mom one week it would only be fair to make cookies for my dad the next week. So this week, the Kashishian household (or at least one of the households) are getting some hopefully delicious cookies. Also I think a more appropriate title than household would be zoo. Now I am not trying to be mean here at all, and I don’t mean zoo in a crazy/chaotic kind of way, but in a ton of animals kind of way. There are (I believe) 6 dogs, 1 cat, and some fish… oh and 4 people. Needless to say there is always something going on over there haha. Anyway, the people are all wonderful, caring, and would bend over backwards for anyone. My dad has never said no to fixing a car for someone (or anything at my house too ). Therese is always there with a delicious meal for people in their times of need or really any day of the week. Shannon knows how to make you laugh when all you want to do is cry. And Danielle is always there with sweet and kind words and a hug for you when you the laughing just didn’t make it better. Like I said they are all great people and I love them all!!!



Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
By: Debbi Borsick
"Everybody wants this recipe when I take them in for a carry-in. To make them award winning, my daughter, Tegan, made them for a cookie baking contest and won a red ribbon! You can use any flavor pudding you like for this recipe."

Original Recipe Yield 6 dozen

Ingredients
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)


Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour and baking soda, set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Edges should be golden brown.


******As always here are my changes to the recipe:

1. I cut this recipe in half… it just seemed like a lot of cookies for four people haha.
2. As always, no nuts!!!
3. One baker suggested for the original recipe to the 2 teaspoons of vanilla to 2 tablespoons, and adding ½ teaspoon of salt… so when I halved the recipe I ended up putting in 1 tablespoon of vanilla and ¼ teaspoon of salt.
4. I also only cooked the cookies for about 9 to ensure they were more chewy than crispy.