I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day.. whether it was with your significant other or with a box of chocolates. My boyfriend surprised me and took me to go see the movie “Valentine’s Day” and I was absolutely delighted. Any movie with Bradley Cooper is lovelovelove! As for dinner, I ended up cooking my first real meal ever for the boy and it wasn’t too shabby, if I do say so myself. Call me crazy, but I’m terrified of cooking. I’ve never been good at it or really tried. It’s just not my cup of tea. For some reason, I find it so much more complicated and stressful than baking. I ended up making lemon/cilantro chicken, mexican rice, roasted potatoes, and rosemary focaccia bread. A little ambitious for my first cooking meal, I know.. but the boy is worth every bit of it. The bread turned out beautifully despite my hatred for yeast, but more on that later! Now that I’ve broken down my fear of cooking, you can expect me to branch out from the oven.
Usually, I’d take any other flavored cookie over chocolate, but there are those days where nothing can satisfy you quite as well as a chocolate cookie. Today was one of those days. This recipe comes slightly adapted from allrecipes.com and I chose it because it had 1,402 reviews. Anything with over a thousand reviews is a definite try in my book. This recipe didn’t fail me— thank you allrecipes! The nuts blended well with the chocolate, as always. There’s something about chocolate and walnuts that’s just magical. The cookie itself was pleasant, fudgy, and moist… exactly the way a chocolate cookie should be.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cups white sugar
- 3/4 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup cocoa powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- In large bowl, beat butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the butter mixture until well blended. Mix in the chocolate chips and walnuts. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or just until set. Cool slightly on the cookie sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
The cookies look delicious and your dinner sounds great too! Hope it turned out well!
The cookies looks so rich and so good!
YUM! looks awesomely chocolately and nutty at the same time!(:
this look so good…im going to try it…thanks!
hi kim! 🙂
greetings from the philippines!
i’ve been looking for your site for days already since i started my blogging site. i’ve been wanting to follow your blogs since i read about the red velvet cupcakes you’ve made… i’m more than happy i found it. 🙂
and we’re the same age too! what a joy… 😀
I feel so nice, I love the mixture of tastes.
To see if I can do something similar and published it.
I follow the track!!
Greetings from Spain!
I love this blog …
YUM-those look absolutely perfect! In fact, I think you just inspired me to whip up a batch myself 🙂
Hi Kim
Your cookies always look so PERFECT. What’s your secret? What kind of baking sheets do you use?
I love your blog.
Karen
Karen-
Thanks! I always bake all my cookies in a sheet pan (which is pictured in my previous post for pioneer woman’s chocolate cake). Also, I roll the cookie dough into balls before popping them onto the baking sheet, so that they all look pretty uniform. Hope that helps!
-Kim
I just finished baking these and they are AMAZING! I left out the nuts, but next time (there WILL be a next time) ill add them. thanks so much for all the baking ideas, i love how i can just pop over to one blog and know ill find some decent recipes :]