I need a great recipe for maple walnut cookies!?

Question

I found a gas station near my house that sells the best maple walnut cookies. They are full of walnuts and taste like maple syrup. I'd rather make them than buy them but I need a great recipe. The cookies they sell are large, thick, dense, not quite crisp around the outside and almost fudgy in the center.
If anyone has a recipe that they've tried I'd really appreciate it.

Answer 1

Maple-Walnut Chippers

2-1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or margarine, at room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 egg
1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
12 ounces (2 cups) semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, sugars, maple syrup, and egg. Add the dry ingredients, then mix until blended. Stir in the nuts and chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing well apart. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until cookies are golden brown. Cool for a few minutes on the sheets, then remove cookies to a cooling rack.

Answer 2

Maple-Walnut Cookies

1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup maple sugar*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon strong maple flavor
1/2 cup vegetable shortening (I used Trans fat free crisco)
1 large egg
1/4 cup maple syrup
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups chopped walnuts, toasted (Don't skip toasting them!)

Preheat the oven to 375

Line 2 baking sheets with parchment or Lightly Grease

In a bowl, beat together the sugars, baking soda, salt, maple flavor, and shortening. Beat in the egg and maple syrup, then stir in the flour. Fold in the nuts gently - the dough may be pretty stiff.

Break off small sized pieces of dough (about table tennis sized) and rolls into balls. Place on the prepared baking sheets.

Bake for 10-12 minutes until they are golden brown. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

If you would like a crispy cookie, flatten each ball with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar.

*If you don't have access to maple sugar - you can substitute brown sugar. It will bring a different taste to the cookie but pretty close to what this is.

Answer 3

Maple Walnut Cookies

1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup maple sugar*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon strong maple flavor
1/2 cup vegetable shortening (I used Trans fat free crisco)
1 large egg
1/4 cup maple syrup
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups chopped walnuts, toasted (Don't skip toasting them!)

Preheat the oven to 375

Line 2 baking sheets with parchment or Lightly Grease

In a bowl, beat together the sugars, baking soda, salt, maple flavor, and shortening. Beat in the egg and maple syrup, then stir in the flour. Fold in the nuts gently - the dough may be pretty stiff.

Break off small sized pieces of dough (about table tennis sized) and rolls into balls. Place on the prepared baking sheets.

Bake for 10-12 minutes until they are golden brown. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

If you would like a crispy cookie, flatten each ball with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar.

*If you don't have access to maple sugar - you can substitute brown sugar. It will bring a different taste to the cookie but pretty close to what this is

Answer 4

Maple Walnut Cookies
Yield: 30 servings

3/4 c Butter flavor crisco
1 1/4 c Light brown sugar; firm pack
1 Egg
1/3 c Milk
1 1/2 ts Vanilla
1/2 ts Maple flavoring
3 c Quick cook oats
1 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
1/4 ts Cinnamon
1 c Walnuts; coarsely chopped

Frosting:
1 cn Vanilla cake frosting
Maple flavoring to taste
30 Walnut halves

Heat oven to 375~. Grease baking sheets with butter-flavor Crisco.
Combine Crisco, light brown sugar, egg, milk, vanilla and maple flavoring
in a large bowl. Beat at medium spped of electric mixer until well blended.
Combine oats, flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Mix into creamed
mixture at low speed just until blended. Stir in nuts. Drop by rounded tbls
of dough 2" apart on prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes or
until lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove to kitchen
counter. Frost top with frosting mixture and garnish with a walnut half.

FROSTING: Mix vanilla frosting with maple flavoring to your desired
taste.

Answer 5

Chocolate Maple Cookies

1-1/4 cups shortening
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
5 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. maple flavoring
2-1/2 cups flour
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
FROSTING:
2 oz. semisweet chocolate
1 Tb. butter (no substitutions)
1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk

In a mixing bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar. Add eggs, one at
a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla and maple
flavoring. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the
creamed mixture. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto greased
baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to
brown. Remove to wire racks to cool. For frosting, melt chocolate
and butter in a microwave or heavy saucepan. Add sugar and milk; mix
well. Frost cooled cookies.

Answer 6

OMG, this recipe is DELISH!

Maple-Walnut Spice Cookies

Store these frosted cookies between layers of parchment paper or wax paper to keep them from sticking together. You can bake and freeze the cookies up to a month in advance; bring the cookies to room temperature before frosting them.

Cookies:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (about 6 3/4 ounces)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 large egg

Frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon fat-free milk
2 teaspoons butter, softened

Remaining ingredient:
1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts, toasted

Preheat oven to 350°.
To prepare cookies, lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 6 ingredients (through cloves) in a medium bowl, stirring well with a whisk.

Place brown sugar and 1/4 cup butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at high speed until light and fluffy (about 4 minutes). Add 2 tablespoons syrup and egg; beat until well blended. Beating at low speed, gradually add flour mixture; beat just until combined.

Spoon batter evenly into 30 mounds (about 1 tablespoon) 2 inches apart on baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 14 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on pans 5 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks.

To prepare frosting, combine powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons syrup, milk, and 2 teaspoons butter, stirring with a whisk until smooth. Spread frosting evenly over cooled cookies. Working quickly, sprinkle cookies with nuts.

Yield: 30 cookies (serving size: 1 cookie)

NUTRITION PER SERVING
CALORIES 98(30% from fat); FAT 3.3g (sat 1.1g,mono 1g,poly 1.1g); PROTEIN 1.2g; CHOLESTEROL 12mg; CALCIUM 12mg; SODIUM 58mg; FIBER 0.3g; IRON 0.5mg; CARBOHYDRATE 16.3g