Crisco Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe (Extra Chocolate Chips)
This Crisco ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe makes chewy, golden cookies with crisp edges, made my way with extra semi-sweet chocolate chips.
This is the classic cookie from the Crisco can, and I load mine with a third more chocolate chips than the original calls for. Chewy middles, crispy golden edges, and people going back for seconds and thirds.
Crisco ultimate chocolate chip cookies are classic chocolate chip cookies made with butter flavor Crisco shortening instead of butter, plus light brown sugar, an egg, vanilla, a splash of milk, and semi-sweet chocolate chips. The shortening is what gives them chewy centers and crisp edges, and they bake at 375°F for 8 to 10 minutes.
Ingredients for Crisco Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Butter Flavor Crisco shortening: softened. This is the whole point of the recipe. It’s what gives you the chewy center, the crisp edge, and the buttery flavor. Butter works in a pinch, but the texture changes, so stick with Crisco for this one.
- Light brown sugar: packed. It’s the only sugar in the dough, for that soft, caramel-y chew.
- Egg, vanilla extract, and milk: the wet ingredients that make the dough light and fluffy when you cream it.
- All-purpose flour, baking soda, and sea salt: sifted together so there are no lumps.
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips: extra, and I mean it. Dark chocolate chips make them richer and less sweet, and milk chocolate or peanut butter chips work too.
- Chopped nuts: optional, folded in with the chips.
How to Make Crisco Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Beat the shortening and brown sugar with an electric mixer.
- Add the egg, vanilla, and milk and cream until light and fluffy.
- Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together, then add it to the wet mixture a little at a time until a soft dough forms.
- Fold in the chocolate chips, plus nuts if you’re using them.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until the edges are golden. Smaller cookies need a little less time, bigger ones a little more. Crisco’s own recipe goes 11 to 13 minutes if you like them crispy.
- Let them cool on the sheet for a few minutes, then move them to a wire rack.
Crisco Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies (Extra Chips)
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Butter Flavor Crisco shortening softened
- 1 ¼ cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 ⅓ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped nuts optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Prepare to fill your kitchen with the irresistible aroma of baking cookies.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer, whip shortening and brown sugar. Then add in egg, vanilla extract and milk. Cream until light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the all-purpose flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mixing until a soft dough forms.
- The star of the show – fold in the semisweet chocolate chips (because, let's be honest, there's no such thing as too many chocolate chips). If you're a fan of nuts, toss in chopped nuts for that extra crunch.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of cookie dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet using a medium cookie scoop. Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown around the edges. Watch them closely to achieve your preferred level of chewiness.
- Allow the cookies to cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets before transferring them to a wire rack. But who are we kidding? Warm crisp cookies straight from the oven are a temptation hard to resist.
Notes
- Storage: airtight container at room temperature for about a week, separated with parchment. Refrigerate if your kitchen is warm. Bring to room temperature before serving.
- Freeze baked cookies wrapped individually or in a freezer bag, then thaw at room temperature.
- Freeze the dough: shape into balls, freeze on a sheet, then bag. Bake from frozen, adding a minute or two.
Nutrition
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About Bailey
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