Chocolate and walnut cookies – recipe for the classic little bites of heaven from Double Tree Hotel

I am having a cookie while writing this story, and thinking : “Damn, these are gooooood, I should post this recipe asap.”

What makes a recipe special, or food special is not just the taste of it, it’s the memory it brings, and for me this cookie brings back the sweetest memories: first time in Amsterdam & my first marathon. Needles to say I fell in love with both, counting 4 marathons through the years and never missing a chance to visit Amsterdam.

The 25-year-old me, that was just starting to seriously get into baking landed in Amsterdam, and headed to the Double Tree Hotel. I was greeted warmly and was handed a cookie 🙂 good start 🙂 I took a bite of the cookie and it was just heavenly, obviously I wanted to make them myself. Little did I know that the Double Tree hotel chain cookie was famous world-wide and in their own words “They have warm cookies and 560+ hotels to welcome guests worldwide”.

Long story short, I loved the cookie, I tried to find the recipe and replicate it at home, but sth was missing, so I jumped to other challenges and experiments and kind of forgot about it.

Few days ago I came across a post on Instagram featuring the original recipe, made available by the Double tree 🙂 Yayyy, let’s make some cookies. I made some minor changes, to adapt these cookies to my taste, hope you’ll love them as much as I do.

Chocolate & walnut cookies

Ingredients

• 200 g butter (room temperature)
• 1 & 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs (room temperature)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 & 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup old-fashioned oatmeal
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder & 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups chocolate chips
• 1 & 1/2 cups chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Beat the butter and sugar together using an electric mixer.
2. Add the eggs and keep mixing until the mixture is light and fluffy.
3. Add vanilla extract and mix well.
4. Add flour, oatmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and mix well using a spatula.
5. Add chopped walnuts & chocolate chips and mix well.
6. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let sit in the fridge for at least half an hour.
7. Preheat the oven at 180 C.
8. Layer a baking pan with baking paper.
9. Shapes the cookies ideally using an ice-cream scoop, or just your hands, in the shape and size of ping-pong balls.
10. Place the cookies in the baking pan far away from each other because they will expand while cooking.
11. I would bake around 6-7 per batch.
12. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or until the cookies start to get a nice golden-brown shade on top. Do not over-bake them, we’re looking for a crispy on the outside and chewy in the middle texture.
13. When you bring them out of the oven the cookies will be super soft. Use a spatula to transfer them to a wire rack to cool or just let them sit in the pan for a minute and then carefully transfer them to a wire rack.
14. Keep baking the other batches of cookies.
15. Let the cookies cool completely before serving.

Enjoy 🙂