Chocolate Chip Anything Cookies

Chocolate Chip Anything Cookies

I found this recipe in a magazine last year, though I can't for the life of me, remember which magazine. I've changed this recipe to find the best sweet balance of the ingredients. After making these cookies over a hundred times, it has easily become my go-to recipe for cookies as it is versatile in what you can add.

The basics of this recipe are:

• 1 c. butter
• 2/3 c. brown sugar
• 2/3 c. sugar
• 1 egg (or 1 tbsp of whole flax seeds, ground with 3 tbsp of water)
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (roughly) or about 1/4 vanilla bean
• 2 c. flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/3 tsp salt (optional- I usually leave this out or add a pinch)
• any mix ins!

1. In mixer, cream butter and sugars
2. Add egg, mix
3. Add vanilla, mix
4. In a separate bowl, using a sifter, sift the flour, baking soda and salt together. If you don't have a sifter, use a whisk to add air to the mixture.
5. add the dry mixture to the wet mixture, slowly. Ahh, slowly is the key word. The first time I did this, I accidentally turned my mixer up too high, and lets just say that my black kitchen looked like it had snowed indoors!!
6. Now is the fun part. Add whatever mix-ins you'd like. Here are some of the combinations that i've tried:
• honey (approx. 1 tsp.) & chocolate chips
• dried cranberries & almond slivers
• almonds diced & walnuts crushed
• white chocolate chips & toffee (my favourite!!)
• chocolate chips & honey & flax seeds (to add more fibre- these are the cookies in the pictures)
• coconut and dark chocolate shavings
• m&ms

** Now something to note with these cookies, is that they are VERY sweet. I love sweet things, but dear hubby says that sometimes I can make these too sweet that his teeth cringe. An easy fix to tone down the sweetness- is to cut the sugars in half and add more flour- This will make the mixture a little dryer though. Your choice!