Double the Chocolate Chips Cookie Recipe

Due to popular demand, zee recipe for my "Double the Chocolate Chips Cookies!"

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup shortening (I use these little pre-measured Crisco shortening packs)
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups Quaker Rolled Oats
• 2 BAGS semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). 
2. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, beat shortening, sugars and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy.
4. Gradually stir in flour mixture. 
5. Stir in rolled oats and chocolate chips. (I use my hands for this!) 
6. Teaspoon onto baking sheets. Bake for 8-10 minutes or till golden. I let cookies cool on sheets for 2 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

I hate 'fessing up, but this recipe is actually a twist on Hilary Clinton's cookie recipe! I've been making these since she had her bake-off with Barbara Bush some years ago. (Okay, I just looked it up and it was 1992!! Thanks for finding this, Mom!) I just double the original amount of chocolate chips she calls for, hence the name of my cookies. Also, this is one of the few recipes I will actually follow to a T - because it never fails! Makes about 64 cookies (16 cookies per 4 cookie sheets). Once cooled, I stick them in a freezer bag and freeze them. Then when I want a few, I simply pop 'em in the microwave for about 10 seconds. The chocolate chips melt just right and are sooo good! 

*Still perfecting the White Chocolate Macadamia cookies pictured. They're good, but don't have my stamp of approval...yet. Lucky for Shrek, I will continue my quest to perfect them over time ;)