Chocolate Chip Cookies - Got Milk?

cookies cooling off on the baking racks

When it comes to chocolate chip cookies, I do not experiment with the recipe a lot. I do not go out searching or looking for new chocolate-chip recipes as the two recipes I have work perfectly! One is an egg-less chewy/cake-like chocolate chip recipe that and the other one is a Nestle Toll House chocolate chip recipe(printed on the back of the nestle tollhouse semi-sweet chocolate chips pacakge).

I do not have a picture for the eggless recipe but herez the recipe!

Software
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• 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 2/3 cup margarine
  
• 2/3 cup butter
  
• 2/3 cup plain lowfat yogurt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
  
• 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups combination chocolate chips(semi-sweet, dark and white)
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Hardware
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• 1 small mixing bowl
• 1 large mixing bowl
• electric mixer
• cookie sheets

Method
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• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt until well combined.
• Cream together butter, margarine, the sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add in the low-fat yogurt (I used the home made one) and the extracts, beat until well incorporated.
• Add the flour in 3-4 installments mixing/beating well after each addition.
• Mix in the chocolate-chips and the walnuts at the very end.
• Drop on greased cookie sheets in 1 tbsp quantities (2 inches apart) and bake for about 10-12 mintues or until golden brown on the sides.

For the second recipe, I follow the nestle toll house recipe with slight variations.

• Instead of 2 sticks of butter, I use 3/4th stick soy based margarine and 3/4th stick real butter.
• Instead of all semi-sweet chocolate chips, I use a combination of dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
• I increase the vanilla extract quantity to 2 teaspoons and add in a teaspoon of almond extract.

close up of the cookies

PS: The pictures were taken by one of our good friends, K when he came to visit us :)! There...K I gave you credit ;)...