I already have a really great chocolate chip cookie recipe, but cause of the amount of butter you can only really eat a couple at a time. So I needed a good recipe that only required 1/2 cup of butter, without the rest of the ingredients being cut by half either. This one fit the bill! I used margarine instead of shortening, and I was a bit worried cause the batter tasted floury, but they turned out really good! I think I'll be keeping this recipe. I also used vanilla instead of the coconut extract. Actually, I find that these cookies taste exactly like the ones I used to make as a kid but the recipe book has been lost for a few years, so I really will be keeping this recipe!

mmmmm they were good I substituted one cup of the chocolate chips for chopped walnut and they very enjoyable

SWEET! No, seriously. Although these cookies were very good, they were extremely sweet. We would definitely reccomend that you have a nice tall glass of ice-cold milk handy to help tone down the burning sweetness. We would also suggest that if you don't like to sway too far from the traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe, you substitute the coconut extract in this recipe for the usual vanilla. The coconut really does change the flavour of the cookie. Mmmm mmm!

These were awesome!!! My sons loved them so much I found myself making cookies all weekend...Thanks for the recipe!