Variation to the Biscuit Chocolate Chip Cookies

Original Recipe and then the alterations all in one so you don't have to scan around for them





Chocolate Chip Biscuit Cookies (egg free)

2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup sugar
2 sticks of butter
2 teaspoons of olive oil (if you are using margarine don't add the oil, it just adds more moisture when using butter, but margarine has enough oil in it)
2 teaspoons of vanilla
1/4 cup of milk
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

My mixer was stashed away so I did this by hand, but by all means if you have a mixer USE IT! Cream the butter and sugar together (and the oil if using butter). Next add the vanilla. Slowly beat in the flour and add the milk slowly. It will be like a drop biscuit type of batter a little more wet than cookie dough but not by much. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
Nuts and M&Ms or what ever you want can be folded in as well.
bake at 375* for 10 minutes or until its a yellowish golden and just the tips of the peaks in the dough are browning. Pull out let rest for 5 min and cool on a rack. Try not to melt your oven like I did :) Adding cocoa powder is delicious too!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not leave the cookies on the pan for longer than 3-5 minutes, they will stick. And semi-sweet tastes the best over milk chocolate, unless you prefer the super sweets.
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Alterations for the Biscuit Chocolate Chip cookies....We turned them into roll out sugar cookies.

Things to not add from original recipe:
Don't add the milk
Don't add the chocolate chips

Things to add:
1 egg
1/4 cup flour
4 Tablespoons of powdered sugar

For dusting the table:
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup powdered sugar
--Mix them together and use when needed

Mix the Cookie dough just the same as before, but instead of doing drops of cookies roll the dough out onto a dusted surface with the above mixture. (the powdered sugar keeps from having that overly floury taste) Roll out and cut into desired shapes. Bake at 350 for 5-8 minutes, or just until the brown is barely on the edges. The browner it gets the crunchier or crispier the cookies will be.

To color our trees green we took some food coloring and mixed it with some water in a small dish and use a basting brush to color the trees, you can even make it look more like a tree.