Spiced Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookie

Flipping through an "ad-azine" from the local hospital, I spotted this tasty looking recipe. Considering we always seem to have more walnuts than we know what to do with, I cut it out to try. Unfortunately, I forgot about the recipe for about a year. By then, the walnuts were rancid so I actually *bought* walnuts to try these cookies. Turns out to have been a good gamble as these cookies are quite tasty! Being drop cookies, they're very easy to make too. I forgot to toast the walnuts before throwing them in which turned out to be a good idea since I don't much like the taste of walnuts. Toasting brings out the flavor of walnuts so I couldn't taste them in the cookies. =D The next batch I made, I did toast them for the sake of others who do like walnuts. Of course, I wasn't so found of the 2nd round.

I now have leftover walnuts though, but at least I know what a potential outlet is. Plus, I could really use them up making 2 batches of this stuff. One for me (untoasted walnuts) and one for everyone else (toasted walnuts). More for me! But how can I polish off an entire batch?!? Well, the good thing is that these cookies are so tasty, walnut lovers don't complain if given the "irregular" batch.