"Soft, tender, vanilla-scented cookies studded with white chips are a nice change from "all chocolate, all the time." The recipe calls for the dough to chill for 2 days in the refrigerator; this enhances the cookies' flavor, which can be one-dimensionally sweet without it. You can certainly make them without chilling first, but we highly recommend it. By the way, you'll notice this recipe is made with bread flour; many of you have asked what you can do with bread flour besides make bread, and here's one of the sweet possibilities...."