Salted chocolate and walnut cookies

For these, I added walnuts (get fresh New Zealand ones and shell them yourself if you can). In Wellington recently I visited the City Market, and a woman was selling cookies under the name “Chunk”. Her molten chocolate ones were served hot out of a pie warmer, and they were incredible. They were the inspiration to get baking chocolate chip cookies again. They make the perfect gift — find a old tin in an op-shop, or get a nice new one.

Ingredients

125 g	Softened butter
¼ cup	Brown sugar
2 Tbsp	Golden syrup
2 Tbsp	Milk
1 tsp	Vanilla extract
1 ½ cups	Flour
1 tsp	Baking powder
1 cup	Dark chocolate, roughly chopped into chunks, I used Whittaker's Dark Ghana (Main)
½ cup	Walnuts, roughly chopped (Main)

Topping

1 tsp	Brown sugar
1 tsp	Flaky sea salt

Directions

1. Heat oven to 180C. Beat together the butter and brown sugar with a wooden spoon, until combined. Add the golden syrup, milk and vanilla and beat until soft.
2. Sift over the flour and baking powder. Add the chocolate and the walnuts. Mix to combine, it may be easier to use your hands.
3. On a baking tray lined with baking paper, roll out tablespoon balls of dough, and flatten with the back of a spoon.
4. Stir together the brown sugar and sea salt for the topping, and sprinkle a little on to each cookie.
5. Place tray into the oven and bake for 12-15 minutes until golden. You can also freeze the dough and cook later.