School Cafeteria Chocolate Chip Cookies - easy and delicious cookie recipe from your childhood. Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. All you need is a glass of milk and you are set! Butter, shortening, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, and peanuts. Can freeze the cookie dough for a quick treat later! Makes a lot of cookies - great for parties and bake sales.
Preheat oven to 375ºF. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, mix together butter and shortening for 1 minute. Add sugar and brown sugar. Mix an additional minute. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add flour mixture to the mixer and mix just until combined.
Stir in chocolate chips and peanuts.
Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop dough, and place on parchment-lined cookie sheets.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on the pan for 1 minute. Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely on wire rack.
Notes:
I doubled the amount of chocolate chips in the recipe. The original recipe only uses 1 cup of chocolate chips.
Feel free to omit the chopped peanuts if you prefer.
Can substitute chopped pecans or walnuts for the peanuts.
One cup of all-purpose flour weighs 4.25-ounces. To properly measure flour, give the flour a stir to loosen it up in the container. Use a spoon and lightly spoon the flour into your measuring cup. Use a flat straight edge (like the straight back of a knife) to level off the top of the flour in the measuring cup. Do NOT compact the flourin the measuring cup.
Can Chocolate Chip Cookies be frozen? Yes! You can freeze the cookie dough or the baked cookies.
To freeze the unbaked cookie dough, scoop the dough and place it on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Place the cookie sheet in the freezer. Once the dough is frozen, transfer cookie dough balls to a freezer bag and store them in the freezer for 3 to 6 months.
When ready to bake cookies, simply add a few minutes to the cooking time.
To freeze baked cookies, allow the cookies to cool completely and place them in a freezer bag. Place the bag in the freezer. The cookies will keep about 3 months in the freezer.