Chocolate Chip Cookies Almost Like the Frog Commissary Recipe*

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 1/3 C. old fashion oats

2/3 C. coconut

2 sticks unsalted butter

1 C. sugar

1 C. brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. pure vanilla 

12 oz Nestles chocolate chunks or chips

Mix together and set aside the first 6 ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, old fashion oats and coconut.

Cream the unsalted butter for about 3 minutes.

Add and cream for an additional 3 minutes all the sugar.

Add eggs and mix again until fully incorporated

Add vanilla and mix a few seconds.

Add flour mixture and mix just a few seconds until about half of the flour has been incorporated but is not completely mixed in.

Add 12 oz Nestles chocolate chunks chips (a taste test in Cook’s Illustrated said that chunks are better than chips. You decide). Mix only until flour is incorporated.

Nuts of your choice, up to a cup, can be added. I don't add nuts.

At this point you can refrigerate up to 2 days.

Roll dough into balls. Mine are usually about 1 1/2" to 2'' diameter. Flatten somewhat into a concave disk with the palm of your hand. I find this helps with more uniform baking.

Bake in preheated oven at 350 for 15 - 20 minutes depending on size of cookie and your oven.

*  Ellen Kane gave me this recipe when we were in charge of the food for the Eastern Pa District Y Swim Meet. She got it out of the Frog Commissary Cookbook and she had  added the coconut. I made a few changes in technique and ingredients.