The Perfect Cookie Gift this Holiday! {with my fav cookie recipe!}

This post is sponsored by Rubbermaid® on behalf of Everywhere Agency; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Baking cookies around the holidays is one of my favorite things to do with Daphnie. We could spend all day just baking cookies - and eating them of course! Baked goods make great gifts. This year we decided to make a bunch of my favorite classic Chocolate Chip Cookies (I included the recipe below!) and give them to the special everyday people in our lives that you typically wouldn't think to give a gift to such as our mailman, UPS and Fedex drivers, barista and neighbors.

I was so happy to find these holiday TakeAlongs®  containers at Walmart - they have the perfect Christmas colors: red, green and new this year - gold! I grabbed the red and green TakeAlongs®  in the smaller sizes for the cookie gifts but also got the larger gold TakeAlongs®  for taking holiday dishes to family gatherings.

This year has been a busy one for us in terms of delivered packages with the blog, so I really felt like giving to our package deliverers was important. Our mailman is so nice and always strikes up a conversation when he's dropping off packages. UPS is extremely efficient and always on time. Our Fedex lady always leaves dog treats for Cupcake and Thor. These people all work so hard to keep our world moving and we appreciate them so much, so we put together up a little TakeAlongs® container full of cookies for each of them and handed them out while they were delivering our packages. They were all so excited and to see the joy on Daphnie's face was priceless!

Daphnie and I both love giving gifts, so we really enjoy doing things like this for other people. I love to see how excited she gets when she lights up someone's day and with something as simple as a little container of home baked goods to show our appreciation and acknowledgement of their hard work.

Scroll down for the recipe to my favorite Chocolate Chip cookies- they are soft and melt in your mouth. I've never seen anyone just eat one.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
makes approx 3 dozen

1/2 Cup Shortening
1/2 Cup Butter (room temp)
3/4 Cup Sugar
3/4 Cup Light Brown Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1.5 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
2 3/4 Cups Flour
12 oz SemiSweet Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In mixer cream shortening, butter and both sugars on medium until smooth. Add eggs and mix well. Then add Vanilla, salt and Baking Soda. Slowly add flour. Remove from mixer and fold in chocolate chips.
Bake at 350 degrees for 6 minutes (for softer, chewy cookies)

Enjoy!

Happy Holidays!