Chocolate and Walnut cookies

This weeks theme anything Cookie 

Because the house smells great with fresh baking and its always nice to lick the spoon of your creation and share a slice of cake.

Its nice to have some home baking in the house for the week, to feed hungry mouths when they come home from school, having tea and cake with fellow mummies over a play date, or 4 o'clock snacks between lunch and dinner wouldn't be the same without a cookie or two.  

What ever the reason its good to get into the kitchen especially with little ones to give them the practical skills in measuring, mixing and taste as well as satisfaction that they have created and cooked something themselves.

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We all love a cookie and as soon as i get a faint whiff of Autumn i get the feeling to make cookies great chunks of crunchy nuts balanced off with indulgent lumps of chocolate whats not to like as you sit contemplating your day with a mug of tea and a cookie to feed the happy part of your soul.

I have my little chef in the kitchen once more making the cookies with me.

Ingredients
200g butter (i always use salted as it gives more flavour)
200g light brown sugar
125g golden caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla paste (or extract)
325g plain flour
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
300g Chocolate dark, milk and white i normally buy a bar of each
100 g walnuts toasted off in the oven for 5 mins broken up

oven temp 180 c cook time 15 mins

• Beat the butter and sugar together till light and fluffy
• Add  the egg and vanilla whisk to incorporate
• Add all dry ingredients and form a dough
• Add Chocolate and nuts then flatten out slightly (to chill faster) and cover and chill in the fridge for an hour
• Line a baking sheet and place cookie shaped dough onto sheet leave a lot of space between cookies as these spread and i tend to do these in batches with 4 cookies per baking sheet.
• Cook for 15 mins and then leave to cool before eating