White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies are packed with roasted macadamia nuts and white chocolate chips. The buttery cookie dough is a perfectly chewy in the middle while still crispy around the edges.
These White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies will freeze well either before or after baking. They are perfect for picnics, lunchbox treats, or even an after-school snack to hold you off until dinner!
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❤️ Why I Love This Recipe
I admit, cookies are my favorite sweet of all to enjoy. And, I will choose a cookie over a brownie, cake, or pie any day of the week. I grew up loving my Nanny's Sugar Cookie and Raisin Filled Cookies. I would look for them every time I visited her!
To me, the perfect cookie is one that is crispy and brown around the edges, with a chewy nut and chocolate filled center. This white chocolate macadamia nut cookie fits that description perfectly! I love the combination of flavors and textures from the white chocolate chips and roasted macadamia nuts in this cookie.
🥘 Ingredients
Unsalted butter is my choice of fat for this recipe. It lends to crispy edges on the cookie and gives it incredible flavor.
Light brown sugar and eggs are the ingredients that add chew to the cookie.
Granulated sugar
Vanilla extract and almond extract for flavoring
All-purpose flour
Baking soda and salt are the leavening agents
Macadamia nuts and white chocolate chips are the goodies packed inside of the cookie. I like to use a dry roasted and salted macadamia nut.
🍽 Equipment
Mixing bowls
Hand mixer, used to cream together the butter and sugar mixture.
Hand whisk to whisk together the dry ingredients before adding to the wet ingredients.
Wooden spoon to mix in the nuts and white chocolate.
Cookie scoop for scooping dough onto cookie sheet.
Baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cooling rack
🔪 Instructions
Step 1:
- Preheat oven to 350
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing until thoroughly combined. Add the vanilla and almond extract and mix until combined.
Step 2:
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Gradually add the flour mixture into the creamed butter and sugar mixture.
- Stir in the macadamia nuts and white chocolate.
Step 3:
- Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.
- Store in an airtight container on the counter up to 1 week or freeze up to 3 months.
💭 Top Tips
- To soften the butter in the microwave for 15 seconds on 30% power. Stir and repeat until butter is creamy and soft but not melted.
- Make these White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies up to 4 days ahead and refrigerate. Bring the dough to room temperature prior to baking.
📖 Variations
- Use milk or dark chocolate chips in place of the white chocolate chips.
- Substitute roasted pecans for the macadamia nuts.
- Use all vanilla extract and eliminate the almond extract.
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📖 Recipe
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup macadamia nuts , coarsely chopped
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing until thoroughly combined. Add the vanilla and almond extract and mix until combined.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually mix into the creamed butter and sugar mixture.
- Stir in the macadamia nuts and white chocolate. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.
Kevin
I make these quite often. They are my all time favorite cookie!
The Food Librarian
These look great. I have some mac nuts in the fridge that I need to use soon. 🙂
Katie
These are my Mom's favorite cookie! I will have to make them for her.
pigpigscorner
Now you too!!! I really have to make some of these!
Tangled Noodle
I love white chocolate macadamia nut cookies ever since I first had them at Mrs Fields' cookie shops. In fact, the recipe I use is from her cookbook. These are my mom's favorites - she used to ask me to send some to her by mail. It is one of the best cookie flavor combos!
Ingrid
I've seen these on Pam's and Sydney's blog,too! Love all the ingredients...really should stop being cookie lazy and make some.
Btw, I agree with Grumpy cookies should be soft and chewy! 🙂
~ingrid
Allie
Yummy these are one of my favorite cookies!
Netts Nook
I can't wait to make these cookies I just posted some fun macadamia bars early this week. Must not let those macadamias go to waste. Perfect.