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Ingredients

½ cup shortening ¼ cup packed brown sugar ½ cup white sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 ⅛ cups all-purpose flour ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon baking soda 1 ¼ cups semisweet chocolate chips

Nutrition Info

129.3 calories carbohydrate: 16.4 g cholesterol: 7.8 mg fat: 7.2 g fiber: 0.7 g protein: 1.2 g saturatedFat: 2.7 g servingSize: - sodium: 42 mg sugar: 11.2 g transFat: : - unsaturatedFat: : -

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugars. Add beaten egg and vanilla, mix well. Sift flour, baking soda and salt together. Stir into creamed mixture, blend thoroughly. Fold in chocolate chips.
Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheets. Bake in oven for 6-9 minutes, depending on size. Do not overbake. Cookies should be a little brown around the edges when taken out. Let cookies cool for a few minutes before removing from baking sheet. Finish cooling on rack. NOTE: If you use miniature chocolate chips, you can decrease the amount needed in recipe from 11/4 cups to 1 cup and not affect the quality of the cookies.

4 dozen

These cookies are moist and full of chocolate, they're really delicious. You'll probably want to throw away your old chocolate chip cookie recipe.