High Altitude Sugar Cookie Food

TOLL HOUSE COOKIE RECIPE, HIGH ALTITUDE, WITH GHIRARDELLI CHIPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
• Cream butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla until it's a fluffy mixture. Scrape sides of bowl with spatula.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Tip: First, crack eggs into a cup or dish to ensure no bits of shell enter the butter/sugar mixture.
• Add flour mixture gradually, beating until mixed.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Stir in nuts (optional).
• Drop by rounded tablespoon onto a lightly greased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 9-11 minutes or until light golden brown around the edges and on the bottom of cookies.
• Cool on baking sheets for two minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• Repeat until all dough is baked into cookies. You can refrigerate the dough for baking later, bringing the dough to room temperature before baking.
• Enjoy! (And probably share).

HIGH ALTITUDE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in peanut butter, egg, and vanilla. Gradually stir in combined flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well.
• Roll heaping teaspoons of dough into 1-1/2-inch balls. Place balls 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. (If dough is too soft to roll into balls, refrigerate for 30 minutes.) Dip fork into sugar; press crisscross indentation on each ball, flattening only slightly. Bake 11 to 12 minutes. Let cookies stand on cookie sheets for 2 minutes. Remove cookies to wire rack; cool completely.
• Melt semisweet chocolate with 1-1/2 teaspoons shortening in top of double boiler over hot, not boiling, water. Place melted chocolate in baggie and snip bottom corner to create a small opening. Squeeze slowly to decorate cookies with a dragonfly design or create your own design.
• Makes: about 2 to 2-1/2 dozen cookies.