Chocolate Chip Cookies

Is there anything that smells as good when it's baking (besides bread) as chocolate chip cookies?  It has to rank right up there in the top two or three delectable smells.  If you've been missing them big time since you went gluten free, wait no more.  Run, don't walk, to your kitchen and mix up a batch of these -- guaranteed to satisfy.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 Cup butter (1 cube)
1/4 Cup shortening
3/4 Cup granulated sugar
3/4 Cup brown sugar
Cream above together.
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Beat into sugar/butter mixture.
2-1/4 Cups rice powder GF flour mix (see Texas Sheet Cake for mix recipe)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1-1/2 tsp xanthan gum
Mix dry ingredients together.  Beat into above. 
Chocolate chips -- type and quantity of your choice
Stir into batter.  Roll into small balls and place on lightly greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 until golden.  Makes about 4 dozen.

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