THE BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe! I won the cookie bake-off at work with this recipe.

 

Ingredients:

1 cup Crisco

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

¾ cup brown sugar

2 cups flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Chocolate chips

 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Mix Crisco, sugar and eggs with a spoon. Add brown sugar and mix again. Add flour and remaining ingredients and mix well (no blender, just a wooden spoon). Add in chocolate chips generously and give the dough a final stir. Roll dough into balls and place on cookie sheet. Bake for 8-9 minutes. Do not over bake (this is the key)! Enjoy with milk.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Final Selection Round

I submitted a story last month and was very excited to receive this e-mail today. I am thankful for this great opportunity to be published for the first time. Hopefully it will be the first of many to come! 🙂

Dear Ashley,  

Your story “Finding My Running Shoes  ” has made it to the final selection round for Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Positive. Only a small percent of the submitted stories have made it this far. The vast majority of stories in this “last round” will appear in the book, but we do not make the final decisions until about a month before the publication date.

 The on sale date is scheduled for October 23, 2012. You will receive $200.00 for each of your stories one month after publication of the book. You will receive ten free copies of the book for each of your published stories, and we usually send those to you prior to the on sale date.