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Preheat oven to 375F.
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In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugars, salt, vanilla until well combines, but not until fluffy.
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Add egg.
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Beat for a couple of more seconds.
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In a medium bowl, combine baking soda and hot water and stir.
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Make sure that there are no big crumbles left over.
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Let sit for a minute or two.
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Add flour to baking soda mixture.
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Combine dry ingredients and wet ingredients and mix on low speed, just until absorbed.
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When cutting chocolate do not use knife, since youll lose a lot of extra chocolate, instead break with your hands.
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Should be about 1 cm big.
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In small bowl, combine 3/4 of the chocolate chunks to nuts, either use walnuts or pecans, and put aside the extra chunks.
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(For better taste, roast nuts on baking sheet at 375F for 5 minutes.
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Stir chocolate mixture into dough.
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)Refrigerate for a half an hour.
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Shape the dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, use a 1 1/2 ice cream scoop so the dough pieces are all the same size, and drop them about 3 inches apart onto an ungreased baking sheet.
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Add the remaining chocolate chunks on top of dough balls, about 3-4 chunks on each ball.
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Bake 9-12 minutes or until golden.
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Let sit for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack.
