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In celebration of National Chocolate Chip Day, I made this delicious dessert. I always love the wonderful smell that fills the house when I make chocolate chip desserts. Warmed chocolate chip cake and a scoop of Blue Bunny Homemade Vanilla ice cream made this a hit for an after dinner treat.

Prep: 20 minutes
Bake: 45-50 minutes
Makes: 10-15 slices

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 package (12 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chunks/chips

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Mix flour, baking soda and salt. Beat butter and sugars in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
3. Add the egg and vanilla until well beaten. Add flour mixture and beat on low until well blended.
4. Stir in chocolate chips.
5. Spread into 9-inch pan.
6. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack before serving.

These soft cookies are always a fun, sugary hit! I whipped up a batch while some of our friends were over. Not only are they tasty, but also fun to decorate and pretty to look at. Enjoy :)

Prep: 15 minutes
Bake: 8-10 minutes
Makes: 2-3 dozen

Ingredients
Cookie Dough

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 tablespoons hot water
• Food colouring (optional)
• Sprinkles (optional)

Steps
Cookie Dough

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla and almost extract.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; gradually add to creamed mixture.
4. Roll into two inch balls and put unto lightly greased baking sheets.
5. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until light brown.

Frosting

1. In medium mixing bowl, combine the butter, confectioners’ sugar, almond extract and enough water to achieve desired consistency.
2. I put about four drops of red food colouring in the frosting mix. I also added some festive red coloured sugar on top. You could mix and match colours; have fun with it!

Credit! This recipe is adapted from The Taste of Home Cookbook.