Smoked Chocolate Chip Cookies with Toasted Walnuts

For the Smoked Butter & Cookie Dough

The secret treasure of this recipe lies in the hickory-smoked butter. Take care to ensure the butter is cool before combining with the other ingredients, as hot liquid can lead to a cursed batch

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cups unsalted butter (280g)
• 1 whole vanilla bean
• 1 as needed hickory wood chips
• 1 ½ cups cake flour (230g)
• 2 cups all-purpose flour (275g)
• 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt (5g)
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch (8g)
• ½ teaspoon baking soda (6g)
• ½ teaspoon baking powder (6g)
• 1 ¼ cups light brown sugar, packed (285g)
• ½ cup white granulated sugar (115g)
• 2 large eggs
• 3 large egg yolks
• 2 cups toasted chopped walnuts (165g)
• 8 ounces Lindt 70% Cocoa Dark Chocolate Bar, chopped (227g)
• 8 ounces Lindt Milk Chocolate Candy Bar, chopped (227g)

Instructions

1. In a medium saucepan, melt the unsalted butter. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
2. Place the melted, cooled butter in a large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and, using a smoking gun or smoker box, cold smoke the butter with hickory wood chips for 45 minutes.
3. Split the vanilla bean and scrape the seeds into the smoked butter. Stir to combine.
4. Roughly chop the dark chocolate and milk chocolate bars. Set aside.
5. In a separate medium-sized bowl, whisk together the cake flour, all-purpose flour, kosher salt, cornstarch, baking soda, and baking powder.
6. Using a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the light brown sugar and granulated sugar. Whisk on medium speed.
7. Slowly stream in the smoked butter and vanilla mixture while the mixer is running. Once fully combined, add the eggs one at a time, followed by the egg yolks, mixing until smooth.
8. Switch to the paddle attachment and mix in the flour mixture until just combined. Do not overmix.
9. Add the toasted walnuts and chopped chocolate to the dough. Mix until just combined.
10. Transfer the dough to a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 48 hours.

Prep: 20 min • Cook: No time • Wait: 48 hours 45 min