Basic Dough:
½ lb unsalted butter, room temp.
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup sugar
2 eggs
¼ tsp salt
1 TBS baking soda
3 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla

Optional Ingredients:
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup your favorite nuts
1 cup dried cherries
1 cup M&M's
1 cup raisins
1 cup of anything other dry ingredient that you like.


This recipe is neat because you can make it as versatile as you want. First, you make the basic cookie dough. Then you add 2 cups of any other ingredient that you like - just make sure it's equal to 2 cups. You can use 2 or more ingredients, adjusting them to equal 2 cups.

The neatest thing is that you can also divide the dough in half and make 2 different kinds of cookies from the same batch. If you divide the dough, then you would only add 1 cup of dry ingredients to each half.

Mix all the ingredients for the cookie dough. Then add your favorite dried ingredients. Using a 1 oz. scoop, drop the balls onto a cookie sheet that has been sprayed or oiled.

Bake at 350 degrees about 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown (oven temperatures vary).