Chocolate - Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

Confession: I love baking.

I also love eating baked goods which is why I don't bake very often. I also only follow recipes when baking because the last thing I need is to be "experimenting" with 100 cookie recipes (or even 10 for that matter).

There are 3 occasions when I will bake:

1. Thanksgiving if I have visitors. It's a tradition... and well... it makes football more bearable.

2. When a new neighbor moves in and I go over to introduce myself. I like to have something in my hands when I meet new people. Plus I think if a new neighbor sees cookies they will be more likely to open the door. (Yes, this is how my brain works)

3. Potlucks. Although with potlucks I have been backing off the baked goods and working on portable pasta salads so that I have something with substance to eat at the party.

Well, it's not Thanksgiving and there is no one new in the neighborhood so you can imagine the luck I felt when a friend invited me to a potluck. As a bonus, it was a dessert potluck!

I will admit that the first thing I thought of was a fruit salad. The produce is beautiful this time of year. And then the sugar cravings hit and I thought to myself "Who am I kidding, this is a chance to bake!"

Alright, so that's a long story that lead me to chocolate - chocolate chip walnut cookies. I found the recipe in the book Veganomicon which I happened to have checked out from the library, although after this experience it is going on my wish list to own. The first thing that I needed was sugar (I don't even keep the stuff in my house).

What happened next made me think that Zoey has been learning how to read.
How did she know to sniff at the "open here" end?


I didn't teach her this, I didn't even notice it until I was loading the pictures onto my computer:



Once I got that package opened up I was ready to roll. These cookies were easy to mix up and they may be the best cookies that I have ever eaten. I normally don't even like nuts in cookies but these were seriously the best.

And as a bonus they were a total hit at the potluck. I wasn't planning to add these to the blog but after tasting them one of my friends told me that he would be "disappointed in me" if I didn't post these on the blog. I don't have a large fan base, so I can't disappoint the viewers that I do have!

Here's hoping that I get a new neighbor soon because Zoey and I cannot wait to make these again!


Edit: Since I wrote this post we did get some new neighbors, they just moved in this weekend! Looks like Zoey and I got our wish and we will be making these again soon!