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Sweets Snacks
Published: 12.26.2010 » Last updated: 03.25.2022

The basic butter cookie recipe gets an upgrade with the addition of dark chocolate morsels and chopped walnuts. Perfect with coffee or tea.

Chocolate chip walnut cookies on wire rack

I baked these cookies on a Christmas day long ago which should explain the tablecloth that you see peeping through the wire rack. It was one of those experiments gone right.

Chocolate chip and walnut cookie dough

We didn’t own a stand mixer back then which would have made the whole process easier and faster. But unless you want to double or triple the recipe to bake more cookies, the cookie dough can be mixed by hand without any serious difficulty because it isn’t stiff at all.

Chocolate chip and walnut cookie dough on baking tray

From the mixing bowl, the dough is dropped by teaspoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet. Ungreased because if you grease the cookie sheet, the bottom of the cookies will fry in the fat and turn dark too fast. That might make you panic and decide to pull the cookies out of the oven before they’re done. So, ungreased cookie sheets.

Full recipe below

Chocolate chip and walnut cookies

Connie Veneracion
Not too thin, not too thick, lightly crisp and mildly chewy — that about sums up what these chocolate chip and walnut cookies are like. A result of an experiment with the best basic butter cookie recipe I could muster and I think I’m getting there.
Chocolate chip walnut cookies on tray and wire rack
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 18 mins
Total Time 33 mins
Course Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 18 cookies

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • ½ cup butter - at room temperature
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour - plus 2 tablespoons
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup chocolate dark morsels

Instructions
 

  • Roast the walnuts in an oil free frying pan for a couple of minutes, tossing often. Do not allow to darken. Cool.
  • Preheat the oven to 350F.
  • Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
  • In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla essence. Beat until smooth.
  • Add the flour mixture. Mix until smooth.
  • Fold in the chocolate morsels and cooled chopped nuts. The cookie dough will be soft but not runny.
  • Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet keeping the mounds at least two inches apart (I used two cookie sheets).
  • Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned.
  • Cool the cookies in the pan for a couple of minutes to firm them up a bit as they are still soft when they come out of the oven.
  • Using a spatula, carefully lift them and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. The chocolate chip and walnut cookies turn crisp after cooling.

Notes

Updated from a recipe originally published in December 26, 2010
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Keyword Chocolate Chips, Cookies, Walnuts

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Connie Veneracion, Chiang Mai, 2020

Hi, I’m Connie!

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