Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've never been able to make the perfect chocolate chip cookies.  I still, even after tonight, don't think I can make them as well as the dear people who bring them to me.  But this time I got pretty close.  So, I really like the soft, chewy, flat kind, because they are way easy for me to eat.  The super crispy or the super pillowy, aren't that easy for me to eat.  So here is the recipe I came up with tonight.

1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 small package of vanilla pudding mix
1/2 tsp soda
1/4  tsp salt
1 1/2 cups flour
1 bag chocolate chips

Cream butter, shortening and sugar
beat in egg and vanilla
add soda, salt and pudding, mix well
mix in flour and chips at the same time

drop 1" balls of dough onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet

bake at 350 about 8-10 minutes, until slightly golden brown and a bit poofy.  Take out of oven, remove parchment paper from baking sheet and drop onto counter to help cookies deflate.  They are best gooey and warm!!!

Thank you to everyone who helped me to make these amazing yummy cookies!