Chocolate chip and walnut cookies recipe
Michael Caines’ favourite cookies come studded with dark chocolate chunks and walnuts
Ingredients
- 220 g Unsalted butter
- 255 g Caster sugar
- 115 g Soft brown sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 2 Eggs
- 315 g Plain flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 450 g Dark chocolate pieces, 70% cocoa solids
- 290 g Walnuts, chopped
Details
- Cuisine: British
- Recipe Type: Snack
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 75 mins
- Cooking Time: 15 mins
- Serves: 12
Step-by-step
- Preheat the oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3.
- Cream together the butter, caster sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract.
- Gradually add the eggs and mix until the mixture is fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, sieve the flour, salt and baking powder together, then fold into the wet mixture gently.
- Finally, add the chocolate and walnut pieces and bring the mixture together in your hands.
- Rest the mixture for 1 hour in the fridge, then roll into small balls and place onto a baking tray with a 5 cm gap between each ball.
- Bake for 12 - 15 minutes.
- Cool on a cooling rack and store any that you don't eat right away in an airtight container.
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