How are homemade cookies made?

Well, taking the literalist/smart-alec approach to answering this question: you make them at your house. ;-)

Just in case you're looking for a recipe/explanation of the cookie baking process, here's that too:

Chocolate Peanut-Butter Chip Cookies:

Tools:
Oven
Baking sheet
Mixing Bowl(s)
Large mixing implement (e.g. a wooden spoon, a rubber spatula or the like)
Non-stick cooking spray or Baking parchment
Measuring Cups
Measuring Spoons
2 smaller spoons (like the kind you'd use to eat cereal)
Spatula (for taking cookies off the baking sheet)
Cooling racks
Optional: sifter

Ingredients:
2 7/8 sticks butter (softened)
1 cup sugar

2 eggs
1 tbsp Vanilla extract (could substitute chocolate extract)
3 tbsp water

2 1/8 C. Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1tsp salt
7/8 cup Cocoa Powder

1-16oz bag of peanut-butter chips (If you can only find 10-oz bags, that's okay too. You'll just have fewer chips in each cookie. Alternatively, you can buy two bags of chips, and use 1 2/3 bags of chips.)

Method:

• Before you start combining the ingredients, "pre-heat" your oven by turning it on to 375º.
• In one mixing bowl, combine the salt, baking powder, cocoa powder and flour. (If you're using the sifter, sift everything together into the mixing bowl.)
• In another bowl, combine the butter and sugar.
  
• Once they have reached a homogeneous consistency, add the two eggs, vanilla, and water.
  
• Start adding the flour mixture to the butter mixture, about 1/3 cup at a time.
• Once dough has formed, add the chips and mix them into the batter.
• Either spray your baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray, or put layers of parchment down to cover the surface.
• Take your two smaller spoons and drop heaping spoonfulls about 2inches apart on the baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove from oven and allow to cool.

Note: If you put down parchment, you can just remove the layers of paper from the baking sheets, without having to move the cookies one by one off the baking sheets onto cooling racks.

Once all cookies are done baking, turn off the oven. (Duh.)

Enjoy with a large glass of milk. Bring extras to share with people at work/school for instant popularity. ;-)