Walnut Brownie Cookies – Chewy double-chocolate cookies loaded with walnuts and chocolate chips
Valentine’s Day may be behind us but that doesn’t mean I have to lay off the chocolate recipes. No sir. In fact, I’m doubling tripling down on the chocolate this week and bringing you a cookie with three kinds of chocolate – cocoa powder, melted chocolate, and large chocolate chips.
Today’s recipe celebrates all the things I love about cookies and all the things I love about brownies, all in one recipe. Chewy edges, gooey centers, and crunchy walnuts. I love everything about this recipe. Especially the chocolate.
Check out these Walnut Brownie Cookies!
What are brownie cookies?
Brownie cookies are just that – brownies in the shape of a cookie. These should not be confused with “brookies”, which are a dessert that are half brownie dough and half cookie dough and baked together as one.
These cookies are slightly chewy around the edges and soft in the middle, just like a brownie edge. The walnuts gives these cookies a sophisticated touch and also help mellow out the rich chocolate. But don’t get it twisted – you’ll still need a whole glass of milk to enjoy with these cookies.
How to make these cookies
This cookie recipe is not much different than a class chocolate chip cookie recipe. It starts by creaming butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Then, the eggs and vanilla extract are blended in.
Here’s where things start to change a bit. Melted chocolate is added to the batter. This recipe uses cocoa powder and melted chocolate to achieve just the perfect chocolate flavor. We can’t add too much cocoa powder or else the cookies will be too dry. So the melted chocolate helps add an extra punch, while keeping the texture perfect moist.
The dry ingredients are then whisked together and added to the batter. Here’s when the dough gets super thick. If you have a stand mixer, you’ll be happy to have it for this step.
Finally the walnuts and chocolate chips are added. I wanted to use big chunks of chocolate but got lazy and didn’t want to chop chocolate up. Instead, I bought giant chocolate chips, which are 2x the size of normal chips. They add the perfect amount of chocolate and still stand out in the cookies alongside the chunks of walnut.
Tips & Tricks
- Make sure to cool the melted chocolate before adding to the dough mixture or else it may scramble the eggs.
- Once the dough is formed it will be really thick. It make be hard to mix in the walnuts and chocolate chips. If so, just knead them in by hand.
Walnut Brownie Cookies
Ingredients
- 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chopped
- 1 cup all-purposed flour
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons butter unsalted, softened
- ¾ cup light brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ⅔ cup chopped walnuts
- ⅔ cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks or large chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two baking sheets by lining with parchment paper or silicone mats. Set aside. Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30-second increments until glossy, smooth, and melted. Set aside to cool. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt together until combined. Set aside.
- In a bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter and sugars together until fluffy and light, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time and beat together. Add vanilla and cooled chocolate and beat just until combined. Add in all the dry ingredients and gently pulse the dough until it starts to come together. Beat for 5 more seconds. Add in walnuts and chocolate chunks. beat for 5 seconds until mixed throughout.
- Take 1 tablespoon of dough and roll in a dough with your palms. Place on baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of dough, spacing the cookies about 1.5 inches apart. They will not spread much while baking. You can flatten them out a little if you want the baked cookies to be less round.
- Bake in preheated oven for 13-15 minutes, or until the edges begin to crack and reach the centers. Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes before serving.
Notes
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Al hail walnuts! I feel like they’re often overlooked and under appreciated. One of the best cookies I’ve ever had was a walnut chocolate chip cookie in Palm Springs. I think it’s a happy coincidence that I have all the ingredients on hand right now to make these! Yum!!
You’re speaking my love language tight there!! ahah These are a dream come true!
A brownie and a cookie in one?? I am SO in! Love how fluffy they look too!
I just drooled seeing your cookies. Thanks a lot for the recipe.
The cookies to fight for, that’s for sure. I can imagine how chewy and yummy they are… oh well, I am adding this recipe to my to-do list because there is no way I will not try them! 🙂
These cookie pics are stunning! Adore that first one with a bite taken out. Thanks so much for sharing :)!
Brookies ROCK1! Yours looks so scrumptious and perfect with a big glass of milk! I now need 3 in my belly! Thank you for sharing! I’m loving the addition of the nuts!
Love adding walnuts to my brownies and cookies! This is a great combo of all my favorite treats!
Just the thing to bake for the weekend! Absolutely amazing how they look! Thanks for sharing.
I feel so sheltered… I’ve never heard of a brownie cookie before! What have I been missing all my life!?!? These are amazing!
These cookies look awesome. I am drooling. O wish I could grab one right now!
Brownies are my weakness. And here you have gone and made a delicious looking Brookie that I must try! Thanks for sharing.
Yummy these look so good, Some days I get so mad that I cant eat gluten!!! Looking at these I am so jelly!!!
Hello! Love brownies, love walnuts, love cookies. Life doesn’t get better. Yum.
What perfectly moist and rich cookies! I am so excited to bake these this weekend; looks too good to pass up!
These seriously look fantastic! I might give them a try with a gluten free flour and see how that turns out. I’ve been experimenting with different flours and this would be a yummy one to try!
brownie cookies?! YES please! these look so chocolatey and delicious
Hands down the best cookies I have made! Perfectly soft on the inside 🙂
You always have the most creative and beautiful recipes, Sharon!
Such a yummy treat, I need to give it a go =)
Such a yummy treat, I need to give it a go
BROOKIES! I’ll take about 10 of these with a tall glass of milk.
OMG this sounds and looks SO good! I can’t wait to make these.