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Look at all those chocolate chips!

While I refer to these cookies as “Gram’s chocolate chip cookies” because my grandma (we call her “Gram”) used to make them for my cousins and I. I have great memories of sitting on her counter eating dough while she loaded up cookie sheets. She originally got the recipe from a trip on the Clipper Cruise Line; apparently they serve these awesome cookies on their ships.

What I love most about these cookies is that the dough to chocolate chips to nuts ratio is about 1:1:1. Which is a lot of chunk! Oh, and also that it has a little booze in it.
This recipe makes about 3 dozen cookies, so be prepared to share (or fight everyone off). I’ve also posted a Word version at the end of the post.

Notice the most important ingredients – booze!

 Ingredients

• 1 c         unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 c      sugar
• 3/4 c      firmed packed light brown sugar
• 1 T         vanilla extract
• 1 T         Frangelico
• 1 T         coffee liqueur
• 2            eggs
• 1 t          baking soda
• 2-1/2 c  all-purpose flour
• 1/2 t      salt
• 24 oz    milk chocolate chips
• 1/2 c    chopped walnuts
• 1/2 c    chopped pecans
• 1/2 c    chopped macadamia nuts

Details

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees
• Beat first six ingredients (butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, frangelico, and coffee liqueur) in a large bowl until light and fluffy.

The first six ingredients

• Add eggs and beat well

Light and fluffy. Ready for eggs.

• Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Stir in with butter mixture
• Mix in chocolate chips, and chopped nuts

Notice that you can’t see the dough… just as cookies should be!

• Drop batter by 1/8 cup measure or soup spoon onto ungreased cookie sheets. Leave space between as these spread out a bit.
• Bake until golden brown, about 13-16 minutes

• Cool on rack
• Eat tons!

Yields approximately 3 dozen. Here’s the print-friendly file for this recipe: Grams Chocolate Chip Cookies

Enjoy!