long overdue cookies

When I mention I have a cookbook featuring 101 different chocolate chip cookie recipes, compiled from entries in a contest to find the best chocolate chip cookie, I am usually met with expressions of awe and naked greed.  Oddly enough, it wasn't until December 13 of last year (the birthday of a friend of ours) that I finally got around to making the Grand Prize Winner.

Prize-Winning Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 3/4 C flour
1/4 t baking soda
1 C butter, softened
1 t vanilla
1 C granulated sugar
1/2 C dark brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
1/3 C unsweetened cocoa
2 T milk
1 C chopped pecans or walnuts
1 C chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Cream the butter and sugars.  Add vanilla.  Beat in the egg.  Add the cocoa, then the milk.  Beat in flour and baking soda just until blended.  Stir in nuts and chocolate chips.
3. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto parchment paper lined cookie sheets.  Bake 12-13 minutes.  Allow to cool slightly on sheets before removing to counter or wire rack.