There are few better all-American treats that the chocolate chip cookie. And there are so many versions: brown sugar chocolate chip cookies, butterscotch-chocolate chip, chocolate chocolate chip, and on and on, but, to me, there are few things better than a classic, old-fashioned chocolate chip cookie.
📖 The Amish & Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Amish are like anyone else: all families have their favorite recipe for homemade chocolate chip cookies. There are recipes for fluffy chocolate chip cookies, recipes for hard chocolate chip cookies, recipes for dense and chewy and on and on. So there is on one perfect, quintessential "Amish Chocolate Chip Cookies" recipe. But this one comes close.
Above is part of the handwritten recipe that this comes from, given to me by an Amish woman in Ohio;
Chocolate chip cookies can be put into a classic cookie jar and make a great after-school snack, packed into lunches, or put into a sealed note and taken to a gathering. Their portability is part of their popularity.
📋 Step-by-Step Amish Chocolate Chip Cookies
Just 10 ingredients in this one. And, honestly, I am not quite sure what the ½ teaspoon of water is for. Seems kind of a pointless step to me, but I did it.
At this point, if you have time, you should stick the dough in the refrigerator and chill it for a few hours or, better yet, overnight. That time allows the flavors to meld more, giving you a richer cookie. But if you must, you can skip in the chilling and just continue. They'll still turn out fine.
Dropping by teaspoon makes for a smaller cookie. And it's the most tedious, time-consuming part. So if you want a larger cookie and less cookies, drop by tablespoons. But if you stick to these nice, smaller cookies, you'll get about three dozen. So feel free to adjust accordingly.
When they come out of the oven, you'll get these delicious, classic cookies. I'd definitely make them again!
🍪 More Amish Cookie Recipes
Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies
🖨️ Full Recipe
Amish Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup oil
- ½ cup white sugar1
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon water
- 2 1 /2 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3 tablespoons softened butter
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 (if you are skipping chilling the dough)
- In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients.
- Then add wet ingredients and eggs.
- Combine into well blended and uniform in consistency.
- Chill dough
- Drop by teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake about 10 minutes or until edges of the cookies are golden brown.
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