Kong's Big Toll House Cookie

There are cake people and there are cookie people.  My son was definitely a cookie person and he always requested this big cookie in lieu of a birthday cake.  We experimented with different additions with our absolute favorite being the addition of Butterfinger BB's instead of chocolate chips.  I'm not sure that Butterfinger BB's are still available but I've seen bags of little mini Butterfinger candies that may be similar.  The BB's were ball shaped Butterfingers about the size of Milk Duds or Malted Mill balls.  The sky is the limit with the mini candy bars that are available these days.  If you can't find them, then chop full size candy bars into half inch chunks.

I had looked for this recipe a couple of years ago and couldn't find it.  I was heartsick, thinking that I had lost that little clipping for eternity.  Lo and behold, as often happens in an old cluttered house, it turned up when I was looking for something else!   Enjoy!

Kong’s Big Toll House Cookie

Printable Recipe

Clipped from a women’s magazine sometime in the 1980’s

2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. Salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

¾ cup sugar

¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 tsp. Vanilla extract

2 eggs

1 -- 12 oz. package (2 cups) Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate morels

1 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  In small bowl, combine flour baking soda and salt.  
Set aside. In large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract
until creamy.  Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour mixture. Stir in Nestle Toll House
semi-sweet chocolate morsels and nuts.  Spread in greased 14 or 15 inch round
pizza pan. Bake 20 - 25 minutes. Cool, Cut into wedges.
Makes one 14 - 15 inch round cookie.

Option:  Spread batter in greased 15 ½ X 10 ½  jelly-roll pan. Bake 20 - 25 minutes.  
Cut in 2 inch squares. Makes 35 cookies.

Other additions:  Instead of chocolate chips, we liked Butterfinger BB’s or broken
Butterfinger pieces.  Toffee pieces is another option. Any of the mini candy bars
makes a great addition when broken in small pieces.