White Chip Chocolate Cookies

So... I like to put recipes on this ole blog here that I want to remember, and use again. It's been a good place for me to store favorite recipes, and I often come back here when I'm trying to plan the week's meals or get recipes easy at my finger tips rather than search through my cabinet full of cookbooks for a recipe...

We made these last night given the lack of baking ingredients we had in the house. (were out of regular choc chips AND brown sugar!) But we did have lots of cocoa, regular white sugar and half bag of white choc chips. So we halved this recipe and it still came out with a litlte over 2 dozen cookies. and they were fabulous!! 

Photo curtesy of Allrecipes.com

White Chip Chocolate Cookies
Adapted from Allrecipes.com, yield 2 dozen cookies

• 1/2 cup butter, softened 
• 1 cup white sugar 
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 1 cup all-purpose flour 
• 1/4 cup and 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1/4 teaspoon salt 
• 1 cup white chocolate chips (I used Ghiradelli)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture. Fold in the white chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. 
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until cookies are set. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.