Holiday Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookies

As promised, here is the recipe!  Without my Meeta, this recipe would not exist.  I would like to thank her for sharing her original recipe back in November of 2000.

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Holiday Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookies

2.25 cup       Flour

1 Tbsp         Baking Powder

1 tsp             Nutmeg (or less if you are not into the whole nutmeg thing)

2 tsp             Cinnamon

2 Tbsp         Water

12 Tbsp       Butter (aka 1 whole stick)  You can never have too much butter.

1 cup           Brown Sugar

1                  Egg

1 tsp            Vanilla Extract

1 12oz pkg  Chocolate chips (I used a mixture of milk chocolate and semi-sweet)

0.5 cup        Nuts, chopped (optional)

**Optional: Boil the 2 Tbsp of water & pour over 2 Tbsp of instant coffee.

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. In medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

3. In a larger bowl, mix together the butter and brown sugar until fluffy.  Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.

4. Alternate adding in the flour & water/coffee into the large bowl with the wet ingredients.

5. Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts.

6. Using a Tbsp, drop dough to a greased cookie sheet and bake for 6-8 minutes.

In theory, you are supposed to get 4 dozen, however, we live in a Texan household and everything is bigger so I only yield about 2 dozen or so.