Recipe: Chocolate & walnut cookie

Chocolate & walnut cookie recipe:  Yields about 16 cookies

Ingredients

1/4 cup old-fashioned oats (blended to fine)

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour or whole wheat flower

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

slightly less than 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 stick unsalted butter (1/2 cup), room temperature

1/4 cup (packed) light brown sugar

1/4 cup sugar

1 large egg

1/2  teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup chopped almonds

1/2  cup of Guittara semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1.  Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.  

2.  Finely chop the oats in a blender.  Transfer the oats to a medium bowl. Mix in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

3.  Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugars in a large bowl until fluffy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Add the flour mixture and stir just until blended. Stir in the nuts and chocolate chips.

4.  For each cookie, drop 1 rounded tablespoonful of dough onto sheet, spacing 1-inch apart (do not flatten dough). Bake until the cookies are golden (cookies will flatten slightly), about 14 minutes. Cool the cookies on the baking sheets for 5 minutes.