Eunice Logan Cookies

My mama makes the best desserts. Now, I know that all good children say that about their mothers, but for me it really is true! My mom knows desserts, and hers are always the best! Growing up, I always loved my mother's cookies more than any others, and once I was old enough to start making them myself I realized her secret: Eunice Logan.

We have a super old church cookbook from 1995 that is falling apart at the seams, and within those crinkled pages lies my mother's secret to the most perfect, delicious, milk-dunking that you have ever tasted! The recipe is by a woman named Eunice Logan, and although I have never met her...I love her for her recipe! Over the years, this recipe has become infamous in our family, known simply as Eunice Logan Cookies. I have even shared this recipe with my fiance's family, and now it is a favorite with them as well! So here you are, get super excited, because today the secret is out! Here is my family's secret cookie recipe, I hope it blesses you as much as it has blessed me!

Eunice Logan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

2/3 cup butter or margarine

2/3 cup butter-flavored shortening

3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar, packed

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

3 cups flour

1 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

1 (3 1/2 oz.) package instant vanilla pudding mix

1 (12 oz) package chocolate chips

Directions:

With mixer, beat shortenings together until fluffy. Add both sugars, beat until well blended. Beat
in eggs and vanilla. Set aside. In separate bowl, mix together flour, soda, salt, and pudding
mix. Gradually add to beaten mixture, stirring well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by heaping
tablespoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 14-18 minutes. (Longer
baking time yields crunchy cookie, less time a chewy one.) Makes 48 cookies. 

Here are my helpful little additions to this recipe: We always used semi-sweet chocolate chips, there is no other way! Also, we never dealt with that separate bowl business, we just added the soda, salt, and pudding mix straight to the mixer and then added all the flour, slowly and carefully so it doesn't pouf! Also, remember that the cookies continue to bake on the cookie sheet when you remove them from the oven, so take this into consideration when timing how long to bake them.

I am pretty sure that the difference here is the butter flavored shortening, and most importantly the vanilla pudding mix. The shortening gives the cookies a more crispy finish, which makes them perfect for dunking in milk. And the extra vanilla flavor in the pudding mix gives these cookies the best flavor ever! Seriously, the cookie dough is so delicious we would often eat most cookies in dough form simply because they never made it to the oven!

And there you have it! My family's favorite recipe, one that has got us through hard and happy times alike. I have a great fondness for these cookies, and I hope that whoever tries them finds them to be as delicious as I do!