THE Best Ever

Nathan LOVES chocolate chip cookies. So, being the good wife I am, (insert eye rolling & laughs here), I made him some homemade chocolate chip cookies to welcome him home from taking his test. Now let me tell you, I have been making CCC for years. But I decided to try a new recipe this time. These cookies were the BEST ever. Seriously. Nathan told me they were the best I had ever made and probably the best he had ever eaten anywhere. He told me I could even try to make some money selling these- yeah right. Noah agreed that they were the best as well. And if I say so myself...

Here's the recipe... It's from Bakerella:
(If you've never been to her site, you are missing out!)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups chocolate chips

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt with a wire whisk and set aside.
• With a mixer, beat butter and both sugars until well blended.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Add flour mixture in two additions until combined.
• Stir in 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips.
• Use a mini ice cream scoop to drop cookie dough on a parchment covered cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes.
• Tip: About half way through baking, sprinkle reserved chips on top of cookies. This is just to make them prettier so, some of the chips are seen on top.

Sorry I don't have a picture of them to share with you. We ate them up too fast! Enjoy!

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Here's a new recipe I found yesterday at Savory Sweet Life and thought I'd share:

Alice’s Sour Cream Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Makes 1 regular loaf, or 2 mini loaves

Ingredients:

1 stick of salted butter, softened to room temp.
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 large ripened bananas mashed ( or 2.5 small bananas)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 Tbl. cocoa powder
1/2 cup of sour cream
1 cup of mini chocolate chips (regular chocolate chips work too)
*optional 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts

Directions:
Preheat over to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9×5 loaf pan, or 2 mini pans with non-stick spray. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together. Stir in egg, mashed bananas, sour cream, and vanilla until well blended. Add baking soda, cocoa, and flour. Mix everything until well incorporated (about 3 minutes in a Kitchenaid mixer). Add chocolate chips and nuts (if applicable).

Pour batter into loaf pan(s) and bake for 50 minutes – 1 hr. Insert a tooth pick into the center of the loaf and check to see if it comes out clean when you pull it out.

I wish I had a picture to share but we devoured it too quickly! It was soooo yummy! Give it a try!