Valentine’s Day Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. Butter (4 sticks)
• 1 ½ C. Sugar
• 2 C Brown Sugar
• 3 Eggs
• 2 tsp. Vanilla
• 6 Cups Flour
• ½ tsp. Salt (I used salted butter so I left out the salt)
• 1 ½ tsp. Baking Powder
• Neon Pink Food Dye (Mine was Rose by Wilton)
• 1 Bag of Chocolate Chips
• Valentine’s M&Ms (optional but looks pretty)

Instruction

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar.
3. Add the eggs and vanilla–mix until combined.
4. In a separate bowl mix the flower, salt, and baking powder.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the sugar and butter mixture and mix until well
6. combined.  Add the neon pink food dye until desired color.
7. Add the chocolate chips and combine well.
8. Roll into balls or use a cookie scoop and place on a silpat or parchment lined
9. baking sheet.  Press several M&Ms into the top of each cookie–I used three or
10. four per cookie.
11. Bake at 350 for 15-25 minutes.  In my oven 15 minutes was perfect.  Time will vary
12. with each oven.  You don’t want them to be brown when they are done because it
13. takes away from the pretty color.  You want them to be barely cooked through in
14. the middle.  This will keep them chewy and soft.