Best Chocolate Chip Cookies | What’s Cookin’ Italian Style Cuisine

This cookie recipe is made shortening not butter and all-purpose flour, but these are ingredients to make them absolutely perfect in shape and flavor.

I have tried so many recipes over the last 40 years everyone always claims they’re the best but these have to be the best because I always go back to making this chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Chocolate chips are famous and there are hundreds of recipes on the internet, but if you want bakery-style cookies, these are the recipes you’re looking for.

I’ve been making this recipe since I was 11 years old and that was originally in a Baker’s General Foods free pamphlet, my favorite recipe ever since the 1970s.

If you are a cookie jar cookie lover, do try my family’s Everything Cookies, Chocolate Chip Shortbread recipe, Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe, and oatmeal cookies!

Scroll down to this easy recipe and give them a try!

Steps Making Old Fashioned Vintage Chocolate Chip Cookies

1. preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment paper or grease them lightly
2. cream the sugars and the shortening together do not miss that step
3. add the eggs, vanilla then the dry ingredients
4. fold in the chips and nuts if using
5. bake until edges are lightly browned

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Shopping List for The Best Ever Vintage Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

• flour
• shortening
• eggs
• brown sugar
• granulated sugar
• baking soda
• vanilla
• milk chocolate chips or semi-sweet
• Optional: any kind of nuts coconut, chocolate chunks, peanut butter chips, chopped candy bars,

Tips

1. Butter can be substituted which will be much softer cookies
2. Bake on parchment paper or a Silpat mat
3. Always preheat the oven
4. Use shortening in this recipe for an old-fashioned bakery cookie
5. Additions like chocolate chunks, candy bars, coconut, or sprinkles can be added
6. Store these in an airtight container with wax paper between the cookies for freshness
7. Always cream the two sugars with butter for at least 3 to 4 minutes
8. Try using almond  or coconut extract instead of vanilla for a different-flavored cookie
9. Remember to experiment with the style you like cooking longer or shorter times, flatten with the palm of your hand for thinner cookies
10. use an ice cream scoop for same-size uniform cookies
11. For fat cookies leave them round and high for thin flatten them with the palm of your hand
12. SEE PHOTO BELOW 

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Best Chocolate Chips Claim to Fame

These crunchy chocolate chip cookies are totally different than the usual butter-based cookies and we only used shortening in the bakery, it makes a huge difference in texture.

The flour was not 100% all-purpose and it needs no sifting.

With our tips and tricks and step-by-step, our simple recipe is a vintage style and one of the best-tasting chocolate chip cookies on the planet.

These cookies are a definite must-try recipe and you’ll be hooked on the first bite.

The only thing you should never change if you want an authentic 1970s-style cookie is substituting butter for the shortening, it really makes a big texture difference and will look bakery-style!

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Author: Claudia Lamascolo

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Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the ultimate chocolate chip cookie either thick and crunchy inside or thin and super crispy, just bake them longer!

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 12 MinTotal time: 22 Min

Ingredients

• 1 /2 cup shortening (lard)
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup unsifted AP flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup milk, semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup walnut halves coarsely chopped (nuts are optional and any kind you prefer is fine)

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. Line cookies sheets with parchment paper.
3. Using an industrial mixer add the shortening with both sugars and beat on high speed until light and fluffy around 3 to 4 minutes.
4. Add the eggs and mix to blend.
5. Stir in the flours, salt, baking soda, and vanilla and mix until all is evenly blended.
6. Fold in the chips and nuts.
7. Drop on the cookie sheet with a medium-sized ice cream scoop.
8. Press them down lightly for thin crispy cookies.
9. For thick chewy cookies leave in rounds and do not flatten.
10. Bake in the preheated oven of 375 degrees.
11. Bake for 12 minutes, or just until the edges are browned.
12. The cookies should be lightly browned on top.
13. Cool then place on wax paper or a wire cookie rack to cool.

Notes

Tips

1. Bake on parchment paper or Silpat mat
2. Always preheat the oven
3. Use softened butter never margarine
4. Additions like chocolate chunks, candy bars, coconut, or sprinkles can be added
5. Store these in an airtight container with wax paper between the cookies for freshness
6. Always cream the two sugars with butter for at least 3 to 4 minutes
7. Try using almond or coconut extract instead of vanilla for a different flavored cookie
8. The cornstarch keeps them in the shape whether round or high and so easy to mold
9. Remember to experiment with the style you like cooking longer or shorter times, flatten with the palm of your hand for thinner cookies
10. use an ice cream scoop for same size uniform cookies

Nutrition Facts

Sodium (milligrams)

55.39 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

4.6 mg

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Disclosure: This recipe was originally shared in 2015. It was edited and re-published in 2024.