Amish Honey-Nut Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Amish Honey-Nut Chocolate Chip Cookies are a favorite in some Amish settlements. But, first, let's step back and look at their honey sources.

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• 🍯 Bee Nutty Cookie Ingredients
• 📋 Cookie Instructions
• 🐝 More Amish Recipes Using Honey
• 🖨️ Full Recipe Amish Honey-Nut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Beekeeping is a relatively popular pastime among the Amish. Beekeeping sort of fits in the same category as tapping trees, It’s another tool for self-sufficiency. It’s not something that every Amish does, by any means, but usually you find one or two beekeepers and almost every Amish community. Having somebody local provides a local source of honey, and the flavor is suddenly different from place to place depending on the nectars and clovers and flowers that the bees pollinate.

Honey is an important staple in Amish kitchens because, like maple syrup, honey can be used as a sugar substitute in many instances. If a recipe calls for sugar, and you don’t have sugar, you can often replace it with a like  amount of honey

Bee Nutty!

So, I will reluctantly, and grudgingly, keep the nuts in this recipe for Amish Bee Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies as non-optional. Of course, you can do whatever you want… You can omit the nuts, I’m not usually a fan of nuts. People feel like they have to throw nuts into everything, and - in my opinion - it ruins it. In this case, though, the nuts really seem to pair well with the chocolate chips and the honey.

This cookie has pretty basic ingredients!

Amish Bee Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies is a recipe from Amish baker Carol Gingerich in Missouri, these sound amazing, will have to try these!  These cookies come out rather large with 1 /4 cup of batter being used for each cookie. I'm sure if you don't want massive cookies that you could easily cut their size in half.

🍯 Bee Nutty Cookie Ingredients

• 3 /4 cup honey
• 1 /2 cup peanut butter
• 1 /2 cup butter or margarine
• 1 4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 /2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 /2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 /2 cup coarsely chopped and roasted peanuts

📋 Cookie Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Combine honey, peanut butter, and brown sugar in a large bowl.
3. Beat till light and fluffy.
4. Add egg and vanilla; mix thoroughly.
5. Combine flour, soda, salt, and mix well.
6. Stir into peanut butter mixture.
7. Stir in chocolate chips and peanuts.
8. Using 1 /4 cup for each cookie, spoon onto a greased cookie sheet and flatten slightly.

🐝 More Amish Recipes Using Honey

Honey Apple Pork Chops - Delicious!

Honey Granola - Super!

Sesame Honey Chicken - You'll never want Panda Express again!

Homemade Honey Bars - This is one of my personal all-time favorites!

🖨️ Full Recipe Amish Honey-Nut Chocolate Chip Cookies