Chocolate Chip Popcorn Cookies

This past weekend, my niece and nephew came to visit for a slumber party! Abby, being quite the actress already at only nine years old knew that she wanted to star in one of my Youtube cooking videos. Requesting a simple but scrumptious chocolate chip cookie recipe, I got to work on figuring out the best one I could find. We stuck with a standard chocolate chip recipe but added walnuts and popped popcorn to the batter! The result was a combo of salty and sweet cookie bites that had a little bit of earthy flavor with the walnuts there to tone them down. We had a blast making this video below. Check it out and make this recipe yourself!

Chocolate Chip Popcorn Cookies (makes about 4 dozen)

My recipe

Ingredients:

1 c. butter

1 c. white sugar

1 c. packed dark brown sugar

2 eggs, room temp

2 tspn. vanilla extract

3 c. AP Flour

1 tspn. baking soda

2 tspn. hot water

1/2 tspn. salt

1/2 c. salted popcorn broken into small pieces

2 c. chocolate chips

1 c. chopped, toasted walnuts

Directions:

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2.) Cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth

3.) Beat in eggs one at a time

4.) Stir in vanilla

5.) Dissolve baking soda in hot water, add to batter with salt

6.) Stir in the flour, chocolate chips, walnuts, and popcorn

7.) Drop w/a tablespoon onto ungreased baking pans

8.) Bake for 12 minutes, until edges are nicely browned