Best Cookies to Date

I'm pretty proud of myself for this one.  Nick told me hands down,  they are the best cookies I have ever made.  I'm going to call them, White Chocolate Chip Spice Cookies.

I saw a recipe the other day and thought it looked fun.  But a little bland.  I decided to tweak it.  The idea was to have a ginger snap with cinnamon chips.  And while that sounded great, I don't much care for the taste of cinnamon chips.  I know, what?  Weird right?  Me, who adds cinnamon to everything!

Anyhoo, I decided to make it more like a molasses spice cookie with white chips.  That sounded more creative.

So, here it is.

1/2 cup melted shortening
1/4 cup softened butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup molasses
2 tsp baking soda
cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves
2 1/2ish cups flour
1 half package white chocolate chips
extra sugar

Cream the butter, shortening and sugar.  Add the egg, mix well.  Mix in molasses, vanilla, soda and spices (I never measure spices, I just use however much smells good).  Beat in the chips and flour at the same time.  The dough is going to be a little sticky still, that's ok.  What you are going to want to do is take spoonfuls, and drop it into a bowl of sugar.  Roll it around until it's coated, then put it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.  Bake your cookies at 350 degrees for about 8-10 minutes, the tops should look cracked and the centers still a little gooey.  When you take them out, they will collapse, don't panic!  That's how it's supposed to be.

As soon as they are cool enough, eat up!  And make sure to store them right away as well so they stay nice and gooey and moist.  And trust me, they are simply amazing, I have been snacking on them all day!