Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes per cookie sheet
Total cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients
1 cup butter or margarine
¾ cup brown sugar
¾ cup white granulated sugar     
2 large eggs
1 ½ tsp vanilla
2 ¼ cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 ½ cups chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions

1. Cream together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Mix well.
2. Add flour, baking soda and salt and mix into a smooth dough.
3. Add chocolate chips, and nuts, if desired, mixing until evenly distributed throughout the dough.
4. Drop by spoonful onto a lightly greased cookie sheet
5. Bake approximately 10 minutes, until edges are lightly browned and then take out of the oven.
6. Let sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before moving to baking racks to finish cooling.

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