I have been making chocolate chip cookies for 45+ years; lets just say I've tried a zillion recipes, but THIS recipe beats them all, HANDS DOWN!!!
Some chocolate chip cookie recipes have great flavor, but produce a flat cookie that spreads all over the cookie sheet (I hate that, don't you"). Some recipes produce a picture perfect cookie, but it doesn't have that wonderfully chewy texture and buttery flavor that a good chocolate cookie needs.
Well, I'm here to tell you that THIS recipe will give you BOTH, a perfectly shaped cookie AND one that is totally delicious.

One word of caution: this cookie dough is very stiff. It's best to use a stand mixer.
1  1/2  cups real butter (no substitutions)(room temperature)
1  1/4  cups granulated sugar 1  1/4  cups brown sugar
2  Large eggs
1  Tablespoon vanilla
4  1/4  cups all purpose flour
1  teaspoon baking powder
1  teaspoon baking soda
1  teaspoon salt
2  cups chocolate chips (I use mini chocolate chips)

In the bowl of your stand mixer, combine the room temperature butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla. Beat until well mixed and smooth.

In a different bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together, then add it (one cup at a time) to the creamed butter-egg mixture, mixing well between each addition. When it is all well mixed, add the chocolate chips.
Roll the dough into balls about the size of a small walnut, then roll the balls in granulate...