Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies with Walnuts...

Good Morning friends!   

Here's the recipe for the Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies with Walnuts...as I promised.

I'm always thinking of new ways to combine flavors of cookies in a fun and hopefully, delicious way.  This is one such cookie!  

See the sugar cookie center?  Gooey yummyness, while the edges stay crisp!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the "cheat" I use...I bought some ready-made sugar cookies (Pillsbury)

I scoop out a good size ball of chocolate chip dough with a medium size ice cream scoop (if you don't have one you should really get one...but a large tablespoon will work).

Ingredients:

1 1/2 sticks room temperature butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white granulated sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

pinch of salt

Beat for 5 minutes...

Taste for sweetness!  Enough sugar?  Add more if you need to.

Now add:

1 cup cake flour

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

 3 eggs beaten (add AFTER you add all the flour! Then if you taste the dough for sweetness, you won't start growing chicken feathers out 'chur butt...as my Mom use to say...lol)

If the dough is as sweet as you like, and you've added the eggs.... add:

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

12 Oz milk chocolate chips

2 cups toasted and gently chopped walnuts

Mix until just combined.

(over mixing can cause you to end up with a tough cookie.

 

 Instructions:

Scoop out balls of mixture (at least 4 ounce size balls)

Grab one sugar cookie thawed square and push into the middle of chocolate chip dough.

Place on parchment covered cookie sheet.

Place in freezer for 10 minutes.

Bake at 425* degrees F (218 Celsius) for about 15 minutes

Please check for brownness!  Do not let them get too brown!

Do Not flatten the cookie balls!  You want them round.

 

Ideas:

You can add any ready-made cookie dough to this chocolate chip dough, you'd like.  It's fun to experiment!  

Scoop out a large ball (5-6 ozs) and bake but, for a longer amount of time...18 to 20 minutes...just keep checking to get the amount of brownness you like and remember to write down the time you ended up baking them in your oven. (ovens everywhere vary in baking temps).  I also use my convection oven when baking these cookies but if you don't have that setting, no worries.  Just bake as usual.

You'll know if you want to add more flour...vanilla or sugar.  I always taste my dough before I add the eggs.  Need more sugar?  Now's the time to add it.

The dough is too loose?  Add more cake flour.

Play with the recipe!  Invent something new but most of all, 

Enjoy it!

 

 

So, until next time,