Chocolate Chip Cookies

This was published in the local paper in the past few weeks. I made them and these cookies won rave reviews. They are supposed to be similar to the old ZCMI cookies, but since I never had one of those, I wouldn't really know. So here you go, enjoy.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
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1 ½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cups granulated sugar
1 ½ cups firmly packed brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
5 cups all-purpose flour
2 bags chocolate chips (milk, semi-sweet, mix and match)

Preheat oven to 350*

Ina bowl of a stand mixer cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy (2-3 minutes). Add eggs and vanilla and beat for 3 minutes.

In another bowl combine the salt, soda, powder and flour. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix until all the flour is incorporated. Add the chocolate chips and mix. Roll in to balls and place on baking sheet.

Bake just until cookies begin to crack about 8-10 minutes. Let cookies cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes and then transfer to wire rack to cool fully.

Makes 72 cookies.