Chocolate Dipped Walnut Acorn Cookies

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As with all our recipes there is a printable recipe at the bottom of this page with exact measurements and directions.

Hope you love them as much as we do!

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These Chocolate Dipped Walnut Acorn Cookies are one of my favorite Christmas Cookies!

As you may know by now, my family has a long tradition of making LOTS of holiday cookies.

We have several different cookies we make each year –recipes that have been handed down from family and friends–and we bake large quantities, then give them away as gifts.

The recipe for these Walnut Acorn Cookies is from my Grandmother’s sister, aka Aunt Katherine.

The cookie itself is not too sweet, has a slight nutty flavor and a texture somewhere between chewy and crunchy.

Dipped in chocolate and walnuts, they are beyond yummy!

They’ve been part of our family’s holiday cookie assortment for years, and for the last 10 years, we’ve made them gluten-free using GF Jules all-pupose flour (affiliate link) and I often make them vegan too!

They were already egg-free, so using dairy-free butter was an easy sub!

With regards to making them gluten-free, I was over the moon the first time we made them using GF Jules gluten-free all purpose flour — they tasted just like the original! Maybe even better!

And you may have noticed that we are affiliate for GFJules.  A great gluten-free flour is so important with gluten-free baking! To learn more about why we love GFJules flour and why we have used it for 10 years, click here.

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Back to the Gluten-free Chocolate Dipped Walnut Acorn Cookies…..

They are super quick and easy to make!

They require just 7  ingredients, ones you probably already have in your panty.

You’ll need:

butter or dairy-free butter

gluten-free all purpose flour (we use GF Jules – affiliate link)

brown sugar

vanilla extra

semi-sweet chocolate chips (we use Enjoy Life Foods chips)

chopped walnuts

baking powder.

And they come together quickly.

The dough is made stove top, in 3 simple steps.

1. You first melt the butter or dairy free butter in a large saucepan.
2. Add the brown sugar, some of the walnuts and vanilla.
3. Then stir in the flour and baking powder.

That’s it!

Then you take the dough and press it into a spoon to make the acorn shape.

And bake!

They key is to not over-bake them.

You want them to be set but not crispy. That way you get that perfect cookie texture somewhere between chewy and crunchy.

Let the cookie cool and the melt chocolate (preferably using a double boiler – amazon affiliate link)

Dip about the top of the cooled cookie in the melted chocolate, and then dip in more chopped walnuts.

Hope you love them as much as we do!

Happy Baking!

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