{"id":1074,"date":"2013-03-23T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T00:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowdybaker.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:12:32","slug":"1074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.therowdybaker.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Walnut Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chocolate Walnut Drops – waiting while I pour a cup of coffee.<\/p><\/div>\n

Grandma Elsie specialized in cookies. I never knew her to bake anything that used yeast, but BOY could she bake cookies. To this day, my six favorite cookie recipes came from Grandma. The only trick was, you had to grab one or two right away before Grandpa lit up a cigar. No one ate day old cookies at their place – at least, not twice! That cigar smoke could permeate anything, and had no trouble getting through plastic wrap or foil.<\/p>\n

That was actually a shame in this instance, since the cookies I’m going to show you today actually get softer and moister<\/del> more moist<\/del> moister with age.<\/p>\n

After fifty or sixty years of baking you’d think she’d have her recipes memorized (she could play complicated piano pieces from memory, for crying out loud) but no – she’d get out her little metal recipe box and follow it step by step, measuring carefully with all of her ingredients organized and ready to go before she started. Obviously, baking techniques are not genetic.<\/p>\n

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Mmm mmm, love these babies!<\/p><\/div>\n

I just baked her Chocolate Walnut Drop Cookies last night for a baking competition at the grange, along with some Perfect Dinner Rolls. See my last baking blog for the roll recipe. The rolls won best of class (that’s better than blue…it’s the coveted purple<\/em> ribbon) so they’re going on to state competition. The cookies, however, were “too dry, and the frosting overwhelmed them. Not enough flavor.” Seriously? Of course they’re dry; they’re cookies, not brownies or cake! Biting through the frosting to get to the cookie is the best part. Pffft.<\/p>\n

That’s okay – you win some, you lose some. They’re still one of my favorites. See what you think!<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Drop Cookies<\/div>\n
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Author: The Rowdy Baker<\/span><\/div>\n
Makes about 24 cookies. These cookies age well, if they get the chance! Just keep them in an airtight container.<\/div>\n
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Ingredients<\/div>\n