Ultra thick and so darn soft on the inside these chocolate chip walnut cookies are loaded with melty chocolate chunks and toasty walnuts in every bite!
Try my easy and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies next. Find all my Cookie Recipes here!
Because, it’s weekend and we all deserve a cookie! A huge one. And certainly these are some of the best chocolate chip cookies I have made in a while.
Between the soft cookie dough, crunchy walnuts and about a million of melty chocolate pockets-this one easily beats some of the best chocolate chip cookie recipes out there!
Cookies: Taste & Texture
- Slightly crispy and golden on the outside
- A ton of texture from chocolate chips and toasty walnuts
- That remarkable thickness! Probably the thickest cookie you will ever bake
- To die for soft in the centers
Most noteworthy, they tick all the marks of a perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Walnut chocolate chip cookies: Ingredients
This recipe is created to produce 5 large sized cookies. It is based off of my super thick choc-chip cookies. I increased the amount of ingredients used to produce even more thicker and chewier cookies.
- We are adding more brown sugar than white for an ultimate chewy texture.
- Cornstarch, to produce that ultimate thick cookie ever known.
- Semi sweet choc-chips (I ain’t a fan of cloyingly sweet cookies). You may substitute them with milk chocolate chips too. No judgments here! 😉
- Room temperature butter and egg. One more time, room temperature only!
- Walnuts, for a texture contrast to these mouth melting delicacies!
Use Quality ingredients to bake best cookies:
I must say what a difference high quality ingredients make! Make sure to use good quality chocolate chips and vanilla (in the amount I mention) too. And you will know what I am talking about.
Also walnuts are a huge help in producing super thick cookies. I swear by the love of chocolate chip cookies!
Furthermore, chocolate and walnut flavor together in buttery soft cookies will blow your mind away!
How to make Chocolate Chip Cookies:
- Toast the walnuts: This step will give your nuts a beautiful aroma and will make the cookies taste a dozen times better.
- Cream Butter and Sugars: Always use butter softened to room temperature. Over softened butter won’t let the cookies bake thick.
- Add dry Ingredients: After adding dry ingredients to wet, don’t over beat the cookie dough.
- Add nuts and chocolate chips: Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts (if adding). If you are not a fan of nuts, you may skip them. The cookies will still bake thick.
- Chill the Cookie Dough: Chill your dough for a minimum of an hour before baking. If not in hurry, you can chill the dough up to 2 days in the refrigerator
- Shape the cookie dough balls: Divide the dough into 10 balls. Each ball will be about 1/4 cup each. Don’t flatten the balls, this way your cookies will stay perfectly thick!
- Finally Bake: Allow cookies to cool down for a few mins on baking tray and cool completely on a wire rack.
I have shared numerous tips and tricks to produce thick chocolate chip cookies in this post. You don’t want to miss that out before baking these!
Seems like you are about to attain Chocolate chip cookie Nirvana! I am so excited for you to experience it.
More Chocolate Desserts for you:
Easy chocolate cupcakes (small batch recipe)
Super easy chocolate bundt cake
These Valentines brownies cookies are a must try!
You will love these brownies bakes in cupcake liners
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Chocolate Chip walnut Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 Cups (250 gms) All purpose flour
- 2 tsp Cornstarch
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 3/4 Cup Butter (Softened to room temperature)
- 1 Large Egg (at room temperature)
- 3/4 Cup Brown sugar
- 1/4 Cup Granulated sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 Cup Chocolate Chips (semi-sweet)
- 1 Cup Walnut chunks (toasted)
Instructions
To toast Walnuts:
- Line a baking sheet with foil and preheat oven to 350 deg F.
- Spread walnut pieces in an even layer and toast for about 7-10 minutes or until fragrant. Keep flipping and turning them every now and then to avoid burning. Allow to cool.
To make the cookies:
- Beat butter and both sugars together on medium speed using a stand mixer or hand beater until creamy and fluffy. Add in vanilla and egg. Beat on medium high to combine for about a minute.
- Sift flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt on the creamed mixture and combine just until flour disappears.
- Gently fold in the walnut chunks and chocolate chips. Chill the dough for one hour or up to 2 days in the refrigerator.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven at 350 deg F and line 2 baking sheets with silicon mat or parchment paper.
- Divide the dough into 10 equal sized portions. Each cookie will be about 1/4 cup. Form balls out of these portions and bake for 11-13 minutes, rotating the baking sheet halfway through.
- Let the cookies cool on the sheet for 10 minutes before transferring on the wire rack to cool completely.
- Enjoy one warm!
Notes
- The cookies will stay fresh for about 3-4 days at room temperature, covered tightly.
- Both baked cookies and unbaked cookie dough balls can be frozen. Thaw baked cookies on the counter top for a few hours before serving. No need to thaw unbaked cookie dough balls. Just bake them for an extra minute.
- My number 1 tip would be to use a kitchen scale to measure ingredients.
- Do not over mix the cookie dough.
- While baking a second batch of cookies in the same tray, don't put cookie dough balls on hot tray.
- Allow the cookie dough to chill for a few hours before baking. This will enhance the texture and flavor profile of your cookies and they won't over spread.
Nutrition
Hi’ I made these last week and they were amazing! Any idea if I like use browned butter? Would it have to be chilled back up again for a solid block of butter or will melted cooled brown butter work? Thank you!
Hi Kelly! I am glad you liked these cookies. I haven’t tried this recipe with brown butter, but if you do so, I’d suggest to solidify the butter again. Melted one won’t yield to thick cookies. 🙂
I made a double batch of these. I wanted to make my cookies a little bit healthier so I used almond flour for 1/3 of my total flour. I then realized I didnt have any cornstarch and used more flour instead. My cookies turned out really good, but pretty flat is that because of the lack of cornstarch or substituting almond flour for some of the flour?
Hi Jessica! Cornstarch really helps baking thick cookies. And using almond flour can cause the cookies to bake flatter as well. So I’d say both substitutions led to flat cookies. But I am happy to hear you enjoyed these. 🙂
HI, WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THESE COOKIES. ONLY ONE QUESTION FOR YOU. HOW DO YOU GET 2 TBS. OF ONE EGG?
Hi Doris! I break an egg, whisk it lightly and measure 2 Tbsp out of it. Alternatively you can double the recipe using one egg, if you don’t mind a big batch of cookies. Hope this helps!
And now my mouth is watering lol. These look so delicious. I love cooking or baking with walnuts, they add a nice layer into nearly any dish!
What a great recipe – so easy to follow, and these cookies sound delicious! Will definitely have to give this a go 🙂 x
I love chocolate chip cookies but I never had it with walnuts before. I think it would be delicious and added protein too!
Cookies!! The recipe sounds divine and can’t wait to head to the supermarket to start a new batch this weekend!
Oh my goodness! These look so ooey, gooey, thick and amazing! Plus, I love walnuts and chocolate!
Awww my they look so good. I need to try them! Those cookies contain everything that I love
This is a classic that will forever be my favorite. I haven’t made them in good long minute either, so thank you for the suggestion!
I love walnuts. Although not a big fan of chocolate chips. Maybe I will substitute the chocolate chips with dark chocolate chunks.
This look so tasty my husband loves walnut especially cookies. We have open house this coming weekend i would love to bake something like this.
I think this would look amazing. But I don’t think my daughter would be into the walnuts. Maybe if I tried some other nut it would work. Does look so delicious though.
I am a cookie lover! And these cookies it looks so delicious and tasty too! I must try this recipe.
I have to send this recipe to my mom. She looooooooooooooooves walnuts and would want to try this!
OMG! Those cookies look delicious! They are so big! I could eat so many of them! I defo need to try your recipe out!
These cookies are amazingly delicious! I love walnuts and think they go so well in chocolate chip cookies! This is now my go to recipe for every school bake sale and cookie exchange.
This looks yummy. I love walnut cookies and this time I going to make myself. The recipe looks easy and doable. Thanks for sharing
These cookies look so delicious. I definitely need to make these with my kids.
OK my mouth is salivating! These sound like some of the most delicious cookies ever! I could 100% see myself tucking into one with a cup of tea!