Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Well, I dared to venture and make chocolate chip cookies. As my mom probably knows, I have struggled with making her chocolate chip cookies (the only chocolate chip cookies I would dare make because they are the best.) Be it cruddy ovens, poor cookies sheets or a glitch in her recipe, I have struggled to make her cookies. However, for whatever reason, I dared to make them yesterday for Family Home Evening and they were a success! I can't tell you how happy I was! Here's the recipe:

Ingredients

1 1/3 cup butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup pecans
1 pckg milk chocolate chips

Heat oven to 375. Mix butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla thoroughly. Measure flour. Blend dry ingredients, stir in. Mix in nuts and chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoons 2” apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Cool slightly before removing from cookie sheet. If using semi-sweet chocolate chips, use walnuts.

The only thing that was different was, I managed to run out of flour! I didn't realize I didn't have any reserves so I ran out. However, I had some cake flour (the same I use for my baking powder biscuits) so I ended up using about a cup of cake flour. I can't say yet if they make the cookies any better. I only know a bit about what makes cake flour different than regular flour. Anyhow, they turned out great. I make my cookies big, to a fault, but they were soft, fluffy and golden brown. The color seemed different, which may have been due to the flour. But they tasted great. I didn't use nuts, mainly because I didn't have any.