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White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies are cookie nirvana— chewy, sweet and salty. The sweetness of the white chocolate and the saltiness of the macadamia nuts combine in a chewy vanilla cookie.
Ingredients for White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies:
3/4 cup salted butter (1 1/2 sticks)
1/2 cup granulated white sugar
1 cup light brown sugar (lightly packed)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup white chocolate chips
2 cups roasted, salted macadamia nuts (chopped)
Notes: Makes about 6 dozen small cookies; 3 dozen large. Store baked cookies at room temperature in an airtight container. Store unbaked dough in the refrigerator up to 2 weeks or in the freezer for 1 month.
Directions:
Make the dough.
1. In an electric mixer, cream butter.
2. Add white sugar. Cream thoroughly.
3. Add brown sugar all at once. Mix on medium-high until creamy and combined.
4. With mixer on low speed, add baking soda, salt and vanilla. Scrape down sides of bowl, if necessary.
5. Stop mixer and add eggs. Beat on medium-medium high until creamy and combined.
6. Add flour and slowly combine.
7. Add white chocolate chips on low speed.
8. Transfer cookie dough to airtight container and refrigerate for several hours or overnight (for best results) or place in freezer for at least 20-30 minutes.
Make the cookies.
1. Preheat oven to 325(F).
2. Chop macadamia nuts.
3. Make a small ball of dough using a teaspoon-size spoon.
4. Press dough ball into chopped macadamia nuts.
5. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.
6. Enjoy!
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these look so good i can’t wait to try them
I love your recipes. They are easy and very well explained…and the best of all..the yummiest…
Those look wonderful, love macadamia cookies.
I can taste and smell the white chocolate of the cookies by looking at the photos. Excellent job :)
Cheers!
Gera
Everyone is making these lately! I just made them too! YUMM!
Ooh… those look *good*!
And I love the attractive way you were able to display the lightly packed brown sugar, without it falling apart. Like a loverly ickle sandcastle. :D
Thank you marla, Hamid, Jason and Gera!
So funny, HoneyB! I wonder why the white chocolate macadamia nut craze right now? I always have had them at Diddy Reese here in LA but never formed a recipe myself. It took me a few tries, but I’m really happy with the soft and chewiness of mine!
Xander, my Twitter buddy! Thanks for dropping in on me! Fun trick with the brown sugar, huh? I guess I do have a good background in sand-castle-ing! Living in Florida and LA all my life!
Love y’all!
Betty
Chewy, sweet, and salty…three combinations that are right up my alley!
I’m going to try this. Macadamia nuts are my favorite.
We hope Maria is feeling stronger.
Dick and Gail
Hi HTC! I love the sweet, salty, chewy combo too! Nom!
Hi Gail! Wow! How cool of you to stop by my site and comment! Let me know if you give the cookies a try and what you think…
Maria is doing well, we’ll be sure to send your well-wishes to her :)
Yummy recipe and great photos, thanks for sharing!
Thanks, choccycake :)
I’m looking for a White Choc Mac Nut Cookie to send overseas (Irac) for my son, this is his request, not an easy receipe to find, looked in all my cookbooks..nothing. These look delicious, he likes the ones at SubWay, these look better to me Hope he likes them.
Hi Linda, How wonderful these cookies will be traveling all the way to your son in Iraq. I can only hope he loves them as much as I do… I’ve never had the ones from Subway… but anything homemade is always better – especially when he’s so far from home.
Let me know how they turn out!
Cheers,
Betty
Hi betty,
I made these last weekend and they were soooo divine! The most amazing thing was they tasted even better the next day!! Thank you so much! I wonder what I shound try this weekend?
Chrystalx
Hi chrystal!
YAY! I am so excited these cookies turned out so well for you! And I must admit – they are better the next day… or at least at room temperature. I think because maybe you can taste the variances in sweet and salty better.
Thanks for dropping by, can’t wait to hear what you try next!
Cheers,
Betty
These cookies were wonderful! I will make these again. Thanks average Betty.
Thanks, La Wanda!!! So glad you liked them :)
Those look absolutely delicious!
WOW! These look amazing; can’t wait to make them. Thanks for the great recipe.
they look so good, cant wait to bake them. going to send them to my fiance for his birthday, sure he’ll love them. thank u for posting your recipe.
And zero calories.
I can’t wait to make these cookies for my friend. I hope he loves them. Question is the consistency different without out the nuts, I know weird but he likes them with out so I figured I’d ask.
Hi Adri!
Gosh, great question! I’ve never tried making them without the nuts, but that sure would have been a smart thing to do while I was in test-kitchen mode!
I think they should still have a good, chewy consistency without the nuts… I will say, the flavor will be different. White Chocolate is super sweet, the saltiness of the nuts tones down the sweetness. If you give it a go I’d love for you to let me know how they turn out.
Cheers,
Betty
They came out GREAT!!! My friend loved them, his a huge fan of white chocolate. I did everything your recipe said except to substitute the nuts I froze and chopped up white chocolate chips and pressed the dough into them. They looked and tasted AMAZING. Thank you so much for this awesome recipe.
Adri! That is so awesome! Thanks for letting me know how the cookies turned out without the nuts… so glad your friend loved them!!
Cheers,
Betty
these cookies came out great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
Dark chocolate is my favorite kind of chocolate. Chocolates have some natural antioxidants too.–;
Hi thanks for this recipe! I had trouble finding a good wc mac recipe, they all seemed the same. I like how yours includes baking soda and how you dip the tops in chopped mac nuts. Very creative. I am making these for my cousin in the Air Force, he’s very stern on wanting these cookies! So thank you !
-Sav
I hope you and your cousin like these cookies, Savannah! Let me know what you think :D