Name: Walnut Acorn Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Ingredients: 2 cup all-purpose flour; ½ tsp baking powder; ¼ tsp salt; 2 sticks (1 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled); ¾ cup packed light brown sugar; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 cup finely chopped walnuts (4 oz); 8 oz semisweet chocolate (melted); ½ cup finely chopped walnuts (2 oz)

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Walnut Acorn Cookies

A rich buttery treat for fall

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 10

Cooling time 10

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 4 dozen

Ingredients

For Cookies

2 cup all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 sticks 1 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
¾ cup packed light brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup finely chopped walnuts 4 oz

For decoration

8 oz semisweet chocolate melted
½ cup finely chopped walnuts 2 oz

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375°F.
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat together butter, brown sugar, and vanilla with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Mix in flour mixture at low speed, then stir in walnuts.
Form 2 teaspoons dough into an egglike shape the size of an acorn. Make more “acorns,” arranging them 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake in batches in middle of oven until undersides are light brown, about 10 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool.
Dip half of each cookie in melted chocolate and then in chopped nuts. Place as coated on a baking sheet lined with wax paper to set, about 15 minutes.

Notes

Feel free to use walnuts, almonds, pistachios - whichever nut makes you happy.

Keyword class recipe, Nuts

Walnut Acorn Cookies