Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

This is modified, ever so slightly, from DG Nigella Lawson, and she says that this recipe is the result of countless attempts to find the perfect chocolate chip cookie. I agree that she found it. This cookie is--in the words of my husband--robust. It's thick, but not cakey, with just the right amount of chew. The only changes I made to her recipe were to add less chocolate chips (and of a different kind) and to add some nuts as well. (Also, it calls for superfine sugar, and I used regular granulated sugar, and like I've mentioned already, the results were delicious!)

Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
modified from Nigella Lawson
makes 15 cookies

Ingredients:
1 1/4 sticks (10 tablespoons) butter, soft
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup superfine sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 egg, refrigerator-cold
1 egg yolk, refrigerator-cold
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 a bag of chocolate chips, semi-sweet or milk chocolate

1 cookie sheet

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Melt the butter and let it cool a bit. Put the brown and white sugars into a bowl, pour the slightly cooled, melted butter over them, and beat together. (I simply used a whisk.)

Beat in the vanilla, the cold egg, and the cold egg yolk, until your mixture is light and creamy.

Slowly stir in the flour and baking soda until just blended, then fold in the chocolate chips.

Scoops the cookie dough into a quarter-cup measuring cup to find the perfect cookie size, and then it's pretty easy to eyeball it after. Drop the dough onto the prepared cookie sheet, 8 to a sheet. This will take two batches. Keep the dough in the refrigerator between batches.

Bake for 15-17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Let cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. (I baked mine for 17, and took them out even though they didn't quite look done. I left the on the cookie sheets to cool, and never transferred them to a rack, and they were just the right amount of done.)