With just 8 ingredients, you'll love these easy and chewy chocolate chip-less cookies! A rich brown sugar vanilla cookie everyone will love. This tried and true dough is chilling optional prior to baking, so you can have a batch made in no time.
Heat oven to 350ºF. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and set aside. In a separate mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until lightened and creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and mix. Add in the flour mixture, a little at a time, and mix.
Place 2-tablespoon sized balls of dough on parchment-lined bakign sheets about 2 inches apart.
Bake until golden around the edges and just set in the center, 10 to 12 min. Don't overcook! They continue cooking on the pan out of the oven. Let cool slightly (if you can wait) and remove from pan.
Notes
Don't over bake the cookies. Let the just-done cookies rest on the baking sheet for a few minutes to finish cooking out of the oven to produce chewy cookies.
Measure flour properly. Fluff or sift your flour before spooning into your measuring cups.
Cream butter and sugar correctly. Mix until the combination is lightened and creamy.
Chill the dough as desired. This recipe works right away or after the dough is chilled.
Use a cookie scoop for uniform size. You can make large or small cookies, but using a cookie scoop ensures they will all bake the same.