So there's a chapter of "Chunky and Nutty" cookies in the book, and I've obviously been avoiding it just as I've been avoiding "Delicate and Annoying" but it is time to confront the chunky nutty craziness. I just have to be careful not to handle the nuts too much, or forget that nuts are in the dough and accidentally lick my fingers. I almost did that with these. Hopefully I don't end up in the hospital.
I guess the thing with most of these nutty chunky cookies is that they can be adapted by just leaving the nuts out, and that way I can eat them. But of course, the whole point of this project is to follow the recipes, not fudge everything and make things up as I go along. However, I am taking notes along the way of which ones I think will be worth trying again, without nuts. This is one of them.
The dough itself has cocoa powder in it. I didn't use my favorite Royal Mahogany, but the other kind I have from Bergenfield is really great also, so the dough was tasty. And then I mixed in the sweetened coconut flakes. In my humble opinion, the cookie could've stopped there. Coconut and dark chocolate, what more do you really need? But from there white chocolate chunks and chopped walnuts are added. I'm also allergic to white chocolate so when I make these again I'm gonna stick with the coconut flakes and just some dark chocolate chips.
So I didn't get to taste the finished product, but I did taste the dough before the white chocolate and walnuts, and it was really good. Really really good. Apparently the finished product was really really good also, because they didn't last very long around my friends.
Yield:
Recipe predicts: 5 dozen.
Actual: 36 cookies - 3 dozen. Huh?
29 recipes down, 146 to go.
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