gifting treats - part 3 of stretching your budget dollars

One of my favorite desserts has to be good 'ole chocolate chip cookies.   However, I love dark chocolate.  I am not a big fan of milk chocolate.   Therefore, when I make my chocolate chip cookies for my treat bags, I use Nestle Dark Chocolate Chips.   

Homemade cookies are the best!  A great little gift for your Holiday Treat Bags are homemade cookies.  This particular batch makes about 2 1/2 dozen.  I put three large cookies in each treat bag to spread the number out.   I am using the same bags I bought at the dollar store along with my #DIY gift tags and ribbon.    Such a pretty, delicious little happy gift for those you want to gift for make your day happy.

Here's the scoop of these delicious cookies:

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter softened  ( I used two Country Crock Unsalted Sticks)
• 1 cup white (granulated) sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar packed
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp Pink Himalayan Salt or sea salt
• 2 cups dark chocolate chips 

To Make:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
2. In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder. Set aside.
3. Cream together butter and sugars until combined.
4. Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
5. Mix in the dry ingredients until combined.
6. Add 12 oz package of Nestle dark chocolate chips and mix well.
7. Roll dough balls (about 3 tablespoons)  and place them evenly spaced on your prepared cookie sheets
8. Bake in preheated oven for approximately 8-12 minutes. Take them out when they are just BARELY starting to turn brown.
9. Let them sit on the baking pan for 2 minutes before removing to cooling rack.   Wait about 10 minutes for bagging them up in your treat bags.

Enjoy!
Be sure and Check out the Other Treat Bags - Part 1 and Part 2 of The Series 
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