Title: Chocolate Chunk Walnut Cookies
Categories: Dessert Cookie
Yield: 30 Cookies

3/4	c	Unsalted butter - room temp.
1/4	c	Shortening
1 1/2	c	Dark brown sugar
1/8	ts	Salt
1 1/2	ts	Vanilla
1		Egg, lightly beaten
1	c	All purpose flour*
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1	c	Walnut (or pecan) pieces
2	c	Swiss semisweet chocolate in small hunks
1	c	Large chunks milk chocolate

*For more tender, crisper, more buttery cookie, reduce flour to 1 3/4 cups.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with baking parchment.

Cream butter and shortening with the sugar and salt until light and well blended. Stir in the vanilla and egg. Stir in the flour and baking soda and mix well. Fold in the nuts and chocolate chunks.

Form into generous tablespoons of batter and drop onto the lined baking sheet, pressing down slightly on the dough, place about two inches apart. Bake 12 - 15 minutes until lightly golden in color and browned at the edges.

Per Serv: 101 cal; 1 gm protein; 26 gm carbo; 11 gm fat; 13 mg chol; 3 gm sat fat; 43 mg sodium

Washington Post Oct 30, 1996

== Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ==

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