Intro to Cooking: White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

There’s nothing like fresh-baked cookies (or even just the dough!) to make your day worth living, and this recipe for white chocolate macadamia nut cookies is pure deliciousness. Sure, you may think you’ve had good white chocolate macadamia nut cookies before, but you ain’t tried nothing yet.  Using vanilla and almond extract gives these cookies extra special flavor and they’re melt-in-your-mouth tasty.

I made them for my BF’s family (gotta try to impress them, right?) and they went absolutely nuts (tee hee) for them. They were actually trying to barter with one another for just one more cookie. If that’s not a good sign, I don’t know what is.

You may want to make a few extra if you plan on sharing them. Or prepare to break up some fist fights.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (about 1 jar) coarsely chopped macadamia nuts
1 cup coarsely chopped white chocolate or white chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth.

3. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla and almond extracts.

4. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually stir into the creamed mixture.

5. Mix in the macadamia nuts and white chocolate.

6. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

7. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

8. Break a few apart so you have an excuse to eat them, curse them for burning the roof of your mouth, then let the rest cool to be served to your friends (or yourself later).