I live at 7,500 ft and it makes baking so frustrating. I came across this recipe on All Recipes and it worked great! I was making them with this recipe but I hated to use a box of pudding. I am also scared to try a new recipe so here’s the recipe cut in half. I still made like 36 cookies. It only called for 1 cup of chocolate chips – you could make 2 full batches with one bag of chips! (If my half batch made 36 cookies – 1 bag of chips should make 144 cookies! WOW)
High Altitude Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- In a large bowl, stir together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Mix in eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the batter just until blended, then mix in the chocolate chips so they are evenly distributed. Drop cookies by heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets spacing 2 inches apart.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the edges begin to turn golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Allow cookies to cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
They are soft and crunchy when they are hot. Then they get crunchy, but soften again by the next day.
These cookies didn’t last long or I would have taken pictures. Let me know what you think. If you have any high altitude recipes, please share them with me!!