09 May 2009 For years, I've tried to find a chocolate chip cookie recipe that tasted remotely as good as the insanely preservative-filled ones that you can buy at the store or buy in dough-form to bake for yourself. After coming very close several times, I think I finally stumbled across one that everyone should have the ingredients for already, and tastes possibly better than all of those *other* cookies. Here's the recipe: 3/4 cup each white and brown sugar * 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup (or one stick) butter or margarine, softened ** 2 large eggs 1 tsp. vanilla (try to avoid imitation vanilla) 2 1/2 cups all-purpose ... {Tags: , , , } {More...}