Oatmeal-Walnut-Craisin-Chocolate Chunk Cookies

This is what resulted from looking for a more acceptable way to eat Craisins than by the handful, adapted from Cook's Illustrated.

Makes 16 large cookies

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 rolled oats
• 1 cup walnuts, toasted & chopped
• 1 cup Craisins (dried sweetened cranberries), chopped
• 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped (or chocolate chips)
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla

1. Heat oven to 350 (you can also toast the nuts at this temp)
2. Mix flour, baking powder & soda and salt in medium bowl. In a second bowl, mix oats, nuts, Craisins and chocolate.
3. By hand or using electric mixer, cream butter & sugar. Add egg and vanilla.
4. Stir in flour mixture.
5. Stir in oat mixture.
6. Divide dough to form 16 balls roughly 2 inches in diameter. Divide between two cookie sheets lined with parchment paper, flatten to 1 inch thickness.
7. Bake 20 mins, rotating the sheets halfway through. Don't overbake, they will look slightly underdone at this point, edges should be browning but the centres should be soft. You want them to be chewy.
8. Cool on wire rack and enjoy.