Diligent Daddy: Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have baked this recipe three times now, making a few tweaks, and think I have a good result now. I would describe these as a "classic" chocolate chip cookie. They are tasty, and soft. So, here it is:

Time: Plan for a few hours. 20 minutes to mix the dough (30 by hand) and a few hours to bake it all.

Ingredients:

Cake Flour: 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons or 8.5 ounces *see below for photo

Bread Flour: 1 2/3 cups or 8.5 ounces *can substitute all purpose flour

Baking Soda: 1 1/4 teaspoons

Baking Powder: 1 1/2 teaspoons

Coarse Salt: 1 1/2 teaspoons

Unsalted Butter: 2 1/2 sticks or 1 1/4 cups

Light Brown Sugar: 1 1/4 cups or 10 ounces

Granulated Sugar: 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons or 8 ounces

Eggs: 2 large

Vanilla Extract: 2 teaspoons

Chocolate Chips: 1 1/4 pounds

Cake Flour: (notice, this is America's Favorite since 1894, as voted on by people who know!)

Combine flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Mix well. Set aside (in a kind, loving manner)

Using a mixer with paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars until light a fluffy

* You can do this by hand, but you will probably only make that mistake once. After that, you will know why people pay for stand mixers.

Add eggs and vanilla and allow them to be stirred into mix.

Reduce to slow speed and gradually add other ingredients that were previously set aside. Add it a cup or so at a time, allowing it to get mixed in before adding more. All the while, be sure to tell these ingredients how you appreciate their patience, and they were number one all along.