Chocolate Chip Cookies- a winner recipe

Well, it's that time again.
Time for Christmas baking and cookie decorating and ice skating circles around Millennium Park. Just one more week of school and I can finally relax. And by "relax" I mean i can submerge myself in making James' Christmas present. I can spend an afternoon baking a chocolate mint cake for Sara. I can shop mindlessly around Downtown Chicago with my best friend, Sonja, while we goof off without the pressure of homework.
Christmas really is the best time of the year.
But before we finalize the transformation from fall to Christmas officially, I would like to share one more "Fall recipe". There's something about running home after school to a nice warm batch of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately, that will never again happen for me. However, my mom gets to drive home from work only to find these cookies awaiting her.
So, here they are. Pretty much the best chocolate chip cookies ever. They are chocolate filled and extremely chewy- but not soft and cakey like store bought cookies tend to be. They are perfectly golden brown with a slight crisp to the edges. Of course, I couldn't expect anything less form a Hershey's Recipe.
So go on and make yourself one last batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies before the Christmas baking rush.



Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup Butter (softened slightly, so butter can bend without breaking but is not mushy)
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli semi-sweet)

Make the cookies!
Preheat over to 350 degrees F and butter two cookie sheets
1. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine Flour, baking soda and salt
2. In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes)
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition. Stir in vanilla extract.
4. Gradually add flour mixture to the large mixing bowl, beating it in continuously.
5. Stir in chocolate Chips.
6. Roll cookies into 1 1/2 - 2 inch diameter balls and place on cookie sheets about 2 inches apart.
7. Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. Take out and let cool for 10 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack or your mouth.
Good luck with getting ready for the Holidays!