Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter
1 cup Crisco
(or 2 cups of one)
1 1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cup brown sugar

4 eggs
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 tsp Almond or Mint extract

5-6 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp salt

1 bag choc, peanut butter, butterscotch or white chocolate chips

Cream the butter, Crisco and sugar in the mixer. When well blended add the eggs vanilla and almond or mint extract.

In a separate bowl mix the flour, soda and salt.

Turn the mixer on low and add the flour mix in about a cup at a time. Dough should still be a little sticky when ready.

Stir in chips by hand, roll dough into balls a little smaller than a ping-pong ball. Bake in a preheated oven at 375 deg for 8 to 10 minutes.

Like the sugar cookies, less is better. Pull them when they first start to turn a little dark and they will finish browning on the cooling rack. One of my all time favorite things to bake.