Who can resist a good chocolate chip cookie? Not me!! ...and these are nothing less than fabulous!

Ingredients:

2 2/3 cups, minus 2 tablespoons, all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons course salt
20 tablespoons room temperature butter
1 1/4 cups light brown sugar
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 room temperature eggs
2 teaspoons good vanilla extract
1 1/4 pounds high quality, semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

In a medium bowl, sift in the flour and then the baking powder, soda and salt.

Beat the butter in a separate large bowl on medium speed for about 2 minutes. Add the brown sugar, beat for a minute, and then add the granulated sugar and beat for another 3 minutes. The mixture should be quite fluffy and light. With the mixer still on medium speed, add the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla. Turn the mixer to low and add the flour mixture gradually. Finally, add in the chocolate chips, mixing by hand just until combined. If you like walnuts in your cookies (I do!), this is the time to add them too. 2 cups of barely chopped walnuts is about right.

Place a layer of plastic wrap directly over the dough and another to cover the bowl and refrigerate for 24 – 36 hours, or up to 72.

When you are ready to make the cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line your baking sheets with parchment paper rectangles. Set the dough out to soften for about 10 minutes.

Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop a 2″ mound of dough onto the cookie sheet, spacing each mound about 2” apart. Bake the cookies 15 – 17 minutes, until the sides are set, but the center is still a bit gooey. Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes after removing them from the oven. Cool briefly on a wire rack, and serve with a couple big glasses of cold milk. After all, you're not going to eat them all by yourself, right? Right?

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