The No Joke Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie

I have a near monogamous relationship with chocolate chip cookies. Other cookies have to work really hard to get me to pick them up. Look, I'm just at the age where I know what I like. I've been around the cookie block a few times, if you know what I mean. Oh, there was a time when I experimented a little, but I now know my type: I'm an all-American, give-me-a-bag-of-Nestle-Toll-House, chocolate chip cookie kind of girl. I've even found the best of the best cookie. Are you ready for it? Cause this one isn't interested in playing games. It's one serious cookie, let me tell you.

My friend Megan makes them all the time. If I lived by her I would talk her into making them every day and then I would sit in her kitchen, milk in hand, until they were done. I think she got the recipe from her sister, Katie, and maybe she got it somewhere else--like the top secret file of the culinary CIA. It's really that good. So without further ado, here is the recipe for my all-time favorite cookie:

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 lb butter, softened and at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs, at room temperature
2 C sugar
2 1/2 C brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
5 C flour (depending on your climate. You made need 5 1/2.)
4 C chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, beat butter until smooth. Mix in vanilla and eggs for about 3 to 4 minutes. (You will see a distinct change in the consistency when it is appropriately mixed. Cream sugar and brown sugar into butter mixture, then add baking soda, salt and flour. Mix. Add chocolate chips.

Bake about 9-11 minutes. Do NOT over-bake, even if cookies do not look done.