The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts
This is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe! This recipe makes chewier cookies, studded with chocolate chips and walnuts.
All of the years of my life, I’ve been on the hunt for chocolate chip cookies that I like better than these delicious chocolate chip walnut cookies. These chewy cookies are my mom’s recipe, and to me, they’re the absolute perfect chocolate chip cookie!
All of her grandkids (and kids) beg her to make a huge batch of these easy chocolate chip walnut cookies for Christmas! They are absolutely my family’s favorite cookies, and they’re always gone in a flash.
We manage to eat an embarrassing number of cookies in the afternoon that we spend together celebrating the holiday. But I never have any regrets about it!
I think that classic chocolate chip cookies are the perfect cookies! Why? Well, I prefer a chewy cookie with golden brown crispy edges and a nice, gooey center! I also look for a good mix of sweet and salty flavor. This great recipe manages to achieve all of these things!
Recipe Substitutions:
There are a few ingredient substitutions you can make for these chewy chocolate chip walnut cookies! Here are a few that I know will work:
- Substitute brown sugar for white sugar, and vice versa.
- Feel free to use chocolate chunks, dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips or white chocolate chips for the semi-sweet chocolate chip morsels.
- You can substitute unsalted butter for the vegetable shortening, but it tends to make the cookies a little puffier and they will lose the chewy texture. Make sure not to use cold butter. Allow it to come close to room temperature before mixing.
- Substitute chopped pecans, almonds or your favorite nut for the crunchy walnuts. Or omit the nuts altogether!
- Another substitution idea for the walnuts is 1/2 cup of oats! An easy way to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and add some fun texture to your cookies.
Serving Suggestions:
What more do you need than a big glass of cold milk to go with the perfect cookie?
But really, if you’re putting together a cookie tray, I’m a huge fan of serving these cookies alongside The Best Christmas Cracker Candy or Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars! They’re the perfect combination for a festive tray of treats.
Storing Leftover Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Keep leftover cookies in an airtight container on the counter for up to a week.
The cookies will get stale as the days pass, but I’ve found you can revive them with a short warm-up in the microwave (10-20 seconds), and a quick dunk in a glass of cold milk!
Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients:
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- ½ cup granulated white sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Dry ingredients:
- l cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Add-ins:
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup chopped walnuts, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper or cooking spray.
- In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the wet ingredients, shortening, sugars, egg, and vanilla till light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, stir together dry ingredients.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture, one large spoonful at a time. Mix well.
- Gently fold in the cup chocolate chips and walnuts.
- Using a cookie scoop, drop dough balls 2 inches apart on your prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for 9 -10 minutes or until the outside of the cookie starts to turn a light golden brown.
- Remove from sheet immediately and transfer to a cooling rack or waxed paper.
- Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before eating. Enjoy!
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These look absolutely scrumptious! There’s nothing quite like mom’s recipes. I’ll be baking these this holiday season for sure!
Chocolate chips and walnuts are so good together.
I love adding walnuts to my chocolate chip cookies
These family recipes that are passed down from our moms and grandmas are always my favorite! I am printing your recipe to try this Christmas since I am still looking for that perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe! 😉
Let me know how you like it!
My Hubby and I love walnuts in chocolate chips cookies! These look incredible!
Nothing beats a good chocolate chip cookie!
These cookies look amazing! And I love everything Bob’s Red Mill too! What a fun roundup of cookies.