Chocolate Chip Almond Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter

  softened (3 sticks)
• 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/4 cups light brown sugar

  packed
• 1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract

  tablespoon NOT teaspoon (no substitutes)
• 2 large eggs
• 4 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour

  (Bleached flour toughens baked goods
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 24 oz. pkg. miniature chocolate chips

  (two 12-ounce packages)
• 2 cups almonds

  finely chopped (measure after chopping)

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 Mix butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl
  with electric beaters until smooth.
• 3 Stir in flour, chocolate chips and almonds.
• 4 Stir thoroughly; this may take 4-5 minutes.
• 5 With a large cookie scoop, scoop cookie dough and pack it into the cookie scoop
  before leveling it off.
• 6 Place onto ungreased cookie pans approximately 3-inches apart.
• 7 Rotate cookies on racks every seven to eight minutes while baking.
• 8 Bake 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
• 9 Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks every 7 minutes of baking time.
• 10 Cool cookies about 5 minutes on cookie pans before removing to wire racks to
  cool completely.

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