Holiday Baking-Round IV

I didn't have time to post my last night of baking before I left to head back to IA, so here I am now. I guess you could call these cookies my "signature cookie" as my family, Josh's family, and many of our friends love these chocolate chip cookies and request them often.

My mom found the recipe a long time ago and I've basically grown up eating these delicious cookies. For a long time, making these cookies were the only thing that brought me into the kitchen.

For the holidays I made 3 batches...all in one night...and that was a little TOO much baking for me to cap the end of my holiday baking spree. I remember despising cookies by the end of that night. (And, even now, I still don't want to bake for a while....) I should have counted them...but I'm guessing I made about 210 cookies as I think one recipe usually makes about 70 cookies.

Funny story (not really). Josh was eating some cookies while we were at his parent's house. He opened the container and set it on the dining room table. He ate one cookie, then left the room to talk to his Dad. While he was gone, his Dad's very naughty, disobedient, poorly trained (but really cute) dog, Hemi, jumped onto the chair and then onto the table and ate about 10-15 cookies! Geesh!

Josh's grandma doesn't like chocolate (yeah, I know), so I always make her a few without chocolate chips, too. When we went to her house for the big family celebration, I gave her a small tupperware with her cookies. She quickly hid them in her freezer so no one else would eat them! :-)

There is a "secret" ingredient. Here's a picture of "it" as I had just added it to the wet ingredients...do you know what it is???