Coffee House Cookies (Pampered Chef)

Submitted by Kim D.

"These cookies are packed full of chocolate, nuts, and chunks of your favorite candy bar! A great cookie to include on your holiday cookie tray, to give in gift baskets, or just a special treat anytime!"

 

• Ready In: 26mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 12 cookies

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 3⁄4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans, divided
• 1 cup semi-sweet semisweet chocolate chunk, divided
• 3 -4 ounces favorite chocolate candy bars (Snickers is my favorite! See Note)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and brown sugar until creamy.
4. Add egg and vanilla to creamed mixture; beat well.
5. Gradually add flour mixture to creamed mixture.
6. Stir in 2/3 cup pecans and 2/3 cup chocolate chucks into cookie dough.
7. Cut candy bars int small pieces and set aside.
8. Using a large scoop, drop dough onto stone or cookie sheet, about 3-inches apart.
9. (Cookies will spread when baking.) Flatten scoops slightly with palm of hand.
10. Lightly press a few pecan pieces, a few chocolate chucks and a few candy pieces into each cookie.
11. Bake for 14-16 minutes or until cookies are almost set.
12. (Centers will be soft, do not over bake.) Cook for 5 minutes on stone or cookies sheet.
13. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool completely.
14. ~NOTE~Chocolate candy bars with nougat and nuts are favorite choices for this cookie.
15. Also delicious are chocolate covered peppermint patties, chocolate covered caramels and chocolate peanut butter cups.

Reviews

[Susang]

My son works in an office full of women. Every two weeks I send him with homemade cookies. Tried this last week, they were a fabulous hit. I added the semi-sweet choc. chips and a coarsely chopped Hershey's milk choc. bar. On the top I also put chopped Snicker's bar, milk choc bar and pecans. I doubled the recipe and it made 24 large cookies. After years of baking on the best recipes, I will be making these for a long time. Taking them to my co-workers next.

 

[Kat Rahal]

Wish I could give this one more than 5 stars! These are so delicious. And easy too. They taste just like they came from a bakery or coffehouse. Definitely in my pile for Christmas cookies!

 

[Sara S]

These are awesome cookies! I have tripled the batch, using different kinds of candy bars on each dozen. For those who crave a peanut butter taste to their cookies, Reese's work awesome with this recipe!

 

[LuvMyBabies]

not my favorite cookies since it wasn't chewy enough or just didn't have the flavor i was looking for...BUT my husband loved it. said it beats out my other cookies i've baked. and he wants to rate this a 5 so i'll give it a 5. or i would've given it a 4 if it were up to me. good recipe over all. next time i'll lessen on the nuts and put more snickers since that was the best part.

 

[Jewelies]

These were a huge success in our household. Both my daughters are still quite young so I used extra coloured chocolate sprinkles instead of the walnuts and topped with a cut up Mars bar. The Mars bar was fun to watch, it puffs right up! I made my cookies quite small for small hands and got about triple (if not more) the amount. Thanks for posting, yum!