Auntie Heidi's Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies

So I know I said that I would email this to quite a few of you - but then I got to thinking (as I was searching for the yellow legal paper that I put the recipe on for the umpteenth time) that I better just do a post about these, because I am going to lose this recipe at some point in my life, and even though I have made them a million times (I think I would forget how to do it if I didn't have that paper staring me in the face).
*My grandma used to have all her recipes on slips of paper kept in a box, never in a book anywhere, so when I look at where all of my recipes are (on little slips of paper in the pantry next to the cookbooks, I think of her).

So Auntie Heidi, I am giving away your secret, that you informed me wasn't so secret (even though there is something about how you make your cookies and now how I make them). She said, "it is the recipe from the back of the Toll House Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips bag". At least that what she tried telling me. When I tried, they turned out nothing like her cookies did. So, on a trip visiting Nebraska (that is where I used to call home) I begged Auntie Heidi to make them in front of me so that I could watch and take notes (on my yellow legal pad paper!). I wrote down everything, guess I am a visual learner, because I needed to see what it looked like at each step, so that I could duplicate it!

Without further delay, I will now share it with you! Good Luck - if you make 'em you will have to let me know how they turn out!

Auntie Heidi's Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1 Crisco Stick
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar (make sure it is packed)
1 tsp double strength vanilla
1/2 tsp hot water
Mix above ingredients until it is creamy like a smoothie

Add 2 Large Eggs
Mix again, will look pretty gross, also doesn't need to be mixed very well, just make sure it gets swirled around in there!

Add 1 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
Mix

Add 1 more cup of flour
Mix

Now add in the semi sweet chocolate chips
Mix

I use a spoon and roll into small balls, 12 to a cookie sheet!

Cook for 10 minutes in 350 degree oven. When the timer goes off and you open the oven, the cookies will NOT look done, I promise they are and I think that this is where some of the magic in the recipe comes in (that and the crisco sticks instead of butter and the double strength vanilla)! Take them out and load your next dozen in!

Enjoy!

Thank you Auntie Heidi - without you I would never have known the secret to the best cookies ever made! They were always best out of your tupperware from the top cabinet like 5 days old! I still remember climbing up onto your counters trying to get my little fingers on them! Making them with you when we were at your house was the most fun! Eating the chocolate chips after was so special too! I let Kyan do that now! Love you!