Frannie's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Bob Woodruff shares his mom Frannie's famous chocolate chip cookie recipe.

April 3, 2009 — -- Family recipes are a little like photo albums -- both bring back favorite memories of home and childhood.

When you're a kid, there's often that one recipe that you think your mom made better than anyone else.

For ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff it was his mom Frannie's secret chocolate chip cookie recipe. Now he's sharing that recipe with you.

Frannie's Chocolate Chip Cookies

The Woodruff Family's Secret Cookie Recipe

Makes 48 cookies

Ingredients:

2 sticks unsalted butter, softened

¾ cup granulated sugar

¾ cup light brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 cups cake flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350° F.

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing until each is incorporated, then add vanilla.

In a separate bowl, combine cake flour, baking soda and salt. Stir with a wire whisk. Add the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar mixture all at once, and mix until they are just combined. Do not over mix.

Fold in chocolate chips with a rubber spatula. Drop 1-tablespoon-size mounds of dough onto a nonstick cookie sheet.

Bake at 350° until golden brown, about 10-12 minutes.

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