Chocolate chip and walnut cookies recipe

Michael Caines’ favourite cookies come studded with dark chocolate chunks and walnuts

Ingredients

Details

  • Cuisine: British
  • Recipe Type: Snack
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Preparation Time: 75 mins
  • Cooking Time: 15 mins
  • Serves: 12

Step-by-step

  1. Preheat the oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3.
  2. Cream together the butter, caster sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract.
  3. Gradually add the eggs and mix until the mixture is fluffy.
  4. In a separate bowl, sieve the flour, salt and baking powder together, then fold into the wet mixture gently.
  5. Finally, add the chocolate and walnut pieces and bring the mixture together in your hands.
  6. 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.
  7. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes.
  8. Cool on a cooling rack and store any that you don't eat right away in an airtight container.

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