Metric Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 550 mL unsifted flour
• 5 mL baking soda
• 5 mL salt
• 250 mL butter or margarine, softened
• 175 mL granulated sugar
• 175 mL firmly packed brown sugar
• 5 mL vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 168 gram packages semisweet chocolate chips
• 250 mL chopped nuts

Preheat the oven to 190 ºC. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla; beat until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour mixture; mix well. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Using 5 mL measure, drop by rounded measures into ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes.

Makes 100 (5 cm) cookies