Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

CHOCOLATE CHIPPERS

1 cup shortening  (I use Crisco Butter Flavor)

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla (I hope you don't use imitation vanilla - take a deep breath and spend a mint on the Real Stuff)

2 cups flour (see note below)

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 pack of chocolate chips (and don't get the chocolate-flavoured ones .... that's not chocolate)

Cream together the shortening, sugars, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.

Thoroughly stir together the flour, salt, and baking soda, and stir into creamed mixture, blending well. Add chips. Drop from tsp 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 about 10 -12 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cool. 

MY 10 cents worth:

• Please don't use fake ingredients if you want a yummy cookie. No fake vanilla, no fake choco chips.
• If recipe calls for shortening, don't use margarine or even butter. Each one has its place - only use what's called for each specific recipe. Crisco Butter Flavor is my favourite shortening for baking
• If recipe says Sift Flour - then Sift Flour. (I just shake mine through a metal sieve.) However, this recipe doesn't ask for sifter flour, so you just spoon spoonfuls of flour into measuring cup and level off top with flat part of knife. DO NOT just put the cup in and scoop out the flour - that's a BAD way to measure.
• Don't over bake. With our dollar store oven, we have learned to drop the temp by at least 50 degrees, and the time by a few minutes. These cookies I leave in for 9 minutes. They look a bit underdone, but that's the way to have them. 
• This recipe is double the original. Don't see the sense in making just enough for a snack, to tell the truth. They won't last diddly-squat anyway.