Chocolate Chip Orange Cookies

I love cookies but all the cookie recipes I found use a large amount of butter. I wanted to create a cookie recipe that tastes good but uses much less butter. So I took a cookie recipe cut down the butter by half, added orange zest to compensate for the loss of flavor due cutting down of butter. Enjoy!

Makes more than 30 cookies
Time to make <1hr
Needs extra time for cooling

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter
2 tbsp orange zest
Pinch of salt

Procedure:
1. Combine dry ingredients (Flour, Salt, Baking soda) together. If you have the time, sift them together. Then add the chocolate chips.
2. In a separate bowl, cream sugars, eggs and butter.
3. Add the vanilla and orange zest to the wet ingredients.
4. Sift dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Do not over-mix.
5. The mixture will be somewhat powdery (not sticky, not doughy). It will be difficult to form any shape out of the mixture. Use as much mixture to form 1-1.5 inch diameter flattened circles per cookie (although there is no need to try to form a shape).
6. Drop the mixture on an aluminum foil (leave some room between each cookie). Bake for 9-12 minutes. The cookies will be very soft when they come out of the oven and till they are warm. Let them cool.