Best Cookies: Chocolate Walnut Fantasies

 by: Donna Monday

There are a lot of great food fantasies. Now you can add these delicious cookies to your list. These taste sensations feature cream cheese, walnuts, coconut, and milk chocolate.

Chocolate Walnut Fantasies

• 1 cup butter, softened

• ¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar

• ½ cup sugar

• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened

• 2 eggs

• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 ¾ cups coarsely chopped walnuts

• 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut

• 1 (7 oz.) milk chocolate candy bar, cut into chunks

Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine butter, brown sugar, sugar and cream cheese in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Add eggs; continue beating until well mixed. Reduce speed to low; add flour and baking soda. Beat until well mixed. Stir in walnuts, coconut and candy bar chunks by hand.

Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls, 2-inches apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Let stand 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets.