It’s Alexis again, almost caught up with recipes baked in October…even if it is the end of November. The last thing I made in October was for my advisors kids for Halloween. Last year I brought them little orange chocolate chip cakes along with homemade turtles and bear claws. This year I brought over a batch of pretzel rolls along with an assortment of pumpkin cakes, white cake and homemade candies. Looking over the goodies plate I decided there was not enough chocolate. This is a major problem because one of the kids has a huge chocolate addiction…so I made white chocolate chip walnut chocolate cookie bars. Wow, that was kind of a mouthful.
This is recipe is the go-to chocolate cookie bar recipe for Lena and me. The cookie bar comes out of the oven fudgey in the middle with crispy edges and has a great chocolate flavor. We have paired it with dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, dried cherries, hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts and caramel. But the different variations for this dough continue on, I bet some orange zest or mint would be amazing with this chocolate cookie recipe. So whenever you need a reliable and delicious chocolate cookie recipe this is the one you should reach for!
White Chocolate Chip and Walnut Chocolate Cookie Bars
Ingredients:
1 ¼ cups unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cups cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1 ½ cups white chocolate chips*
1 cup walnuts, chopped*
*optional
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream the butter and the sugar until the mixture is pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl down after each addition
- Stir in the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
- Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture until just blended. Gently mix in the walnuts and white chocolate chips, the dough will be a little stiff.
- Scoop the dough into a greased 9×13 inch baking pan so that there is one even smooth layer.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the toothpick just barely comes clean.
This is chocolate-y awesomeness and I dare you not to eat them coming right out of the oven! Again, I love this recipe and since they disappear so quickly, I am pretty sure everyone else does too.