Cookie recipes do not have to be complicated. In fact, quick and easy cookie recipes are often the very best tasting ones! When you only use the minimum required ingredients the real cookie taste comes out, rather than being hidden behind extra unnecessary ingredients. This simple recipe will have you becoming a cookie expert in no time at all.

After pre-heating your oven to 350 degrees, prepare the following ingredients:

1 cup softened butter
1.5 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2.5 teaspoons vanilla extract
2.5 cups all-purpose flour
12 ounce packet of chocolate chips

Cream the butter and sugars together in a bowl then add in the eggs plus vanilla extract.
Sift the flour salt, baking soda and baking powder in another bowl.

Add both bowls of ingredients together and stir through the chocolate chips (of course, you can do this recipe without chocolate chips if you wish).

Roll the mixture into medium sized bowls and put balls on a cookie sheet (ungreased). Bake for 10 minutes.

This delicious recipe will tempt your taste buds and be a favorite around your house. For something different consider a similar recipe of oatmeal raisin cookies where you include 2 cups of oats and brown sugar for a brilliant tasting cookie.

There is nothing like a freshly baked cookie but many people don’t have time for elaborate, fancy and time consuming recipes. That is why simple cookie recipes are becoming more and more common place in our busy lifestyles.

This is just one of several quick and easy cookie recipes you can try. You can adapt this recipe to other flavors besides chocolate chip. Just use your imagination and you’ll be amazed that the flavors that you can come up with!