Grandma Burn's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cream:

1 cup softened unsalted butter

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs (room temperature, add one at a time)

1 Tablespoon vanilla

Whisk dry ingredients together before adding slowly to wet ingredients until just combined:

3 cups flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt (if you use salted butter, add 1/4 teaspoon)

2 1/2 cups chocolate chips (add just before dry ingredients are fully incorporated)

Bake 350 degrees 10-12 minutes.

Grandma Burns is Ainsley Timothy's grandma. This recipe reminds me of the cookies I made when we lived in California--but somehow they never worked when we lived way above sea level.

Kristy's Spice Cake

1 box spice cake mix, sifted
3 eggs, room temperature
2/3 cup sour cream, room temperature
1 cup milk (or buttermilk), room temperature
1/3 cup oil

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour pans.  Combine, but don't overmix, ingredients (200 strokes by hand).  Pour into pan(s).

Bake in the center of preheated oven:

2 8-inch - 24-29 minutes
2 9-inch - 23-28 minutes
13x9-inch - 23-28 minutes
bundt - 33-36 minutes
24 cupcakes - 16-19 minutes

Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove cakes from pan.  Let cool completely.

Frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

A batch and a half should do:
9 oz cream cheese, room temperature
3/4 cup butter, room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
6 cups sifted powdered sugar