Addicting Chocolate Chip Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla (I use Watkins double strength, it doesn't evaporate during baking like others tend to)
1 1/2 teaspoons instant coffee (I use \"Kava\", it has 90% of the acidity neutralised)
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
1 (12 ounce) bag Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with the sugars until fluffy.
Beat in the egg, vanilla, and instant coffee.
Combine the rest of the dry ingredients by placing them in a plastic container with a lid and shaking them. Then gradually add the dry ingredients, beating them into the butter mixture.
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Roll dough into ping pong-sized balls with your palms and place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees F. for 8-10 minutes.
Cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes, then place cookies on a cooling rack until almost cooled (the chocolate chips shouldn't be hard when you place them into your cookie jar if you like a soft cookie). The flavor combines overnight, so they are even better the second day (if they last that long)!