Alex used to eat the raw dough with great pleasure when he was a little boy. Sometimes there was enough left to make some cookies. My mother made a batch then baked a few in the toaster oven for an after-school snack.
1 cup butter
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoons baking soda
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoons salt
With all ingredients at room temperature, put all except flour in mixer and beat well then add flour and beat well again. Refrigerate.
Drop by 1/2 teaspoons on ungreased cookie sheet or toaster oven tray. Bake at 300 degrees.
You can make 15 at a time in a toaster oven. Keep the dough in a kidproof, airtight container in the fridge.
-Marion Hutchins