Maple Walnut Crisps

Maple-walnut always seems like a Dad flavor to me. When you go for ice cream, the kids order chocolate, vanilla, strawberry or some mixed flavor while Dads order maple-walnut or pistachio or something old-fashioned.

During a visit to the King Arthur store, I picked up some maple extract and was anxious to use it. The cookies themselves use both maple extract and maple syrup in addition to toasted walnuts.

The recipe says to flatten the cookies with a glass but the dough was much too crumbly and dry for that. Instead, I had to keep the cookies as balls. The dough didn't flatten or spread at all in the oven.

Basically, I ended up with cookie balls. Fortunately, the cookies have good maple and walnut flavor.