Valentines Chocolate Chip Cookies

Made Famous By:  Lisa Scott

Have you seen the movie We Bought a Zoo?  If you haven’t GO SEE IT!  I thought I was going to see another silly kid’s movie, but was quite surprised.  It is a movie that really makes you think and cry.  There I admitted it!  I cried….a little.

The part of the movie that struck me the most was the moment that the Father, played my Matt Damon, knew it was right to buy the zoo.  They were walking the grounds and all of a sudden he found himself staring at a lion, this huge, dangerous, powerful, majestic, strong beast.  

In that moment everything got still.  As he stared this lion in the eyes, he knew.  He knew that what he was about to do was right.  It was going to be hard and maybe the craziest choice of all of his options, but he knew as he gazed into the eyes of the lion that it was the right choice.

Isn’t life like that?!  Sometimes the right choice appears to be a lion.  Sometimes that right choice seems scary, difficult, unattainable, and most definitely the hardest choice, but it is the right choice.

In my life this always seems to happen when we are making big decisions.  When all the options are weighed and prayed about, the path we know in our hearts is right, most always is the hardest.  But it is beyond a doubt the right choice.  The storm inside becomes still and peace overcomes the senses as you stare into the lions eyes.

Every time we have followed the promptings we have received it has always worked out even better than we could have dreamed possible.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 lb. Real Butter

1 ½ C. Sugar

2 C Brown Sugar

3 Eggs

2 tsp. Vanilla

6 Cups Flour

½ tsp. Salt

1 ½ tsp. Baking Powder
Neon Pink Food Dye

4 C Chocolate Chips

*Preheat oven to 350 degrees

*Cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar.

*Then add the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.

*In a separate bowl mix the flower, salt, and baking powder.

*Add the dry ingredients to the wed ingredients and mix until well combined.

* Add the neon pink food dye until desired color. 

*Add the chocolate chips.

**Bake at 350 for 15-25 minutes.  Time will vary with each oven.  You don’t want them to be brown when they are done.  You want them to be barely cooked through in the middle.  This will keep them chewy and soft.

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