Sierra Nuggets

Name: Sierra Nuggets
Yield: Makes forty-eight 2-in [5-cm] cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup [110 g] pine nuts, peanuts, or chopped walnuts; 1¼ tsp baking soda; 1½ tsp ground cinnamon; ½ tsp ground mace; ¼ tsp ground nutmeg; 1 tsp salt; 2 cups [340 g] Guittard Milk Chocolate Baking Chips or Guittard Semisweet Chocolate Baking Chips; 1 cup [25 g] cornflakes; 2 large eggs, lightly beaten; 1 cup [90 g] unsweetened shredded coconut; 3 cups [240 g] old-fashioned rolled oats; 1½ cups [180 g] all-purpose flour; 1 cup [220 g] unsalted butter, at room temperature; ⅜ tsp ground cloves; 1½ cups [300 g] granulated sugar; 1½ tsp vanilla extract; 3 Tbsp whole milk; 1 cup [200 g] firmly packed dark brown sugar

Preparation info

Makes
forty-eight
2 in [ 5 cm ] cookies

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Guittard Chocolate Cookbook

By Amy Guittard

Published 2015

About

I like these hearty cookies in part because they remind me of the people who flooded into California in the 1800s in search of gold, including my great-great-grandfather Etienne. These nuggets are packed full of energy-sustaining ingredients—nuts, cornflakes, oats, and coconut—as well as a variety of fragrant spices. They make for an unexpectedly delicious treat. Eureka!

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