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<\/a><\/p>\ningredients<\/span><\/strong>:
\n1 batch of above GF Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
\n8 tablespoons butter (unsalted), room temperature
\n2 extra-large eggs, room temperature
\n1+1\/2 teaspoons vanilla extract (NOT imitation, please!)<\/p>\ndirections<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n- preheat oven to 325. \u00a0line two (2) large baking sheets with parchment paper; set aside<\/li>\n
- using a hand or stand mixer, beat together the room temperature butter and eggs \u2018til thoroughly incorporated; stir in the vanilla<\/li>\n
- pour 4 cups (or one batch) of the Cookie Mix into a very large bowl. by hand, stir in the liquid ingredients to thoroughly blend
\nadd the chocolate chips (or mix-in of your choice); stir \u2018til evenly distributed<\/li>\n - drop balls of dough (approximately 1+1\/4″) onto the prepared baking sheets. \u00a0place the baking sheets (one at a time) into the freezer for 5 minutes to firm up<\/li>\n
- after the chill time, put cookies (one sheet at a time) into the oven<\/li>\n
- bake for 12-14 minutes (depending on the size of your dough balls) or \u2018til the bottoms are beginning to brown<\/li>\n
- remove from the oven. (I carefully lift the parchment from the cookie sheet directly onto a cooling rack\u2014works beautifully!)
\nwhen cookies are thoroughly cooled, store in an airtight tin or jar. \u00a0whether you and your loved ones eat ’em or share ’em…enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n*To make these cookies dairy-free, simply substitute 1 stick of butter-flavor shortening for the 8 tablespoons of butter; and purchase chocolate chips with no milk or milk products. \u00a0I use the Ghiradelli or the Enjoy Life brands.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 \u2665<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMerry Christmas from Mr. hayden and I!<\/span><\/p>\nGod loves you<\/strong>!\u00a0\u00a0\u2665\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0(Don\u2019t\u00a0ever<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>forget that!)<\/p>\n\u2665\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>coleen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cookies…such a\u00a0lovely tradition of giving during the Christmas holidays. \u00a0There are cookies to make for exchanges. There are cookies to make to fill tins and baskets that are given to friends and loved ones. \u00a0There are cookies to make for the cookie monsters in your own home! Chocolate Chip cookies seem to be a big-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[3038,4805,235,4806,4786,1287,425,4807,1897,483],"class_list":["post-29099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home-with-gch","tag-at-home-w-gch","tag-chocolate-chip-cookies","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-cookie-mix","tag-cookie-recipes","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gluten-free-cookie-recipes","tag-gluten-free","tag-healthy-but-oh-so-yummy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-12-15-23.12.46.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7zl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29102,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099\/revisions\/29102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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