Huge Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Last night Arnauld hosted his Fantasy Football Draft at our house.  Knowing the house would be filled with guys talking about football, I invited some friends from work to celebrate the end of our first week back to school out by the fire pit.   The guys seemed to have a good time doing their football thing and us girls had a nice relaxing evening wearing our sweatpants and catching up about the craziness of the start of the school year.  I wasn't really in the mood for major cooking on a Friday afternoon, so Arnauld ordered wings and sandwiches to fit the football theme.  I made a couple salads and chocolate chip cookies for dessert.  The recipe I used for the cookies boasted bakery sized cookies that were chewy and delicious and that is just what they turned out to be!

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp vanilla
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup vanilla chips

Method
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
1. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
2. Beat the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together until creamy.
3. Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract.
4. Gradually sift in the flour mixture until everything is well combined.
5. Use a wooden spoon to stir in the chocolate and vanilla chips.
6. Spoon 1/4 cup of cookie mixture onto cookie sheets lined with parchment paper (or just greased).  Each scoop should be about 3 inches apart.  These turn out to be some pretty big cookies!
7. Bake 15-17 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are golden.
8. Allow to cook on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.