#1. Add More Flavor: So why do we add vanilla to our cookies and cakes when you can't even taste it? Because it makes everything else taste better. And it would probably taste even better if you added twice as much.
But vanilla is expensive. Try something else--French vanilla or maybe one of the synthetic vanillas (I know--that's heresy.)
We use brown sugar flavor or caramel flavor. Unless you really want the vanilla to shine through in that delicate cookie, this will work better and for less money.