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.
Heidi
I WANT these cookies! They look so good 🙂
Mari at Once Upon a Plate
Oh yah! Now THAT'S my kind of cookie ~ they look terrific Shelby, nice job. Thank you for sharing the recipe! xo~m.
shellyfish
Oh those do look like heaven!
emiglia
Looks awesome! I love soft and chewy cookies too. The key to a chewy cookie is melted butter and a higher proportion of brown sugar to white. I bet you could tinker with this recipe easily to get the cookies to be soft AND chewy. I'm gonna test it and let you know how it goes 🙂
Pam
Great minds think alike! Yours look fantastic - I would love to dip one in ice cold milk right now.
Cristine
Those look heavenly! I have a recipe I normally use, but your picture has me wanting these! I think I'll make them to have on hand when Nathan gets home! 🙂
Coleen's Recipes
When you see the same recipe popping up in different places, you KNOW its a good one.
Lynda
These look really delicious; I've seen several posts for similar cookies lately, now I just have to decide which one to make!
Bunny
I LOVE soft cookies Shelby these look amazing! I'm gonna have to make them next!
Carrian
YUM!! I always am trying to make cookies with white choco chips and sometimes they just don't turn out. I am bound and determine to find a good oatmeal, craisin white choco chip recipe so maybe this is a start for me!
burpandslurp
I'll be dreaming about this all night! delicious!
Elyse
Oh man, these cookies look delicious! Grumpy and I are quite alike: I love a soft and chewy cookie. Very rarely do I like anything "crispy" when it comes to a cookie. Save crisp for potato chips. I can't wait to try out your recipe. YUM!
Lori
And I made them on the 16th, well, bars not cookies, but white chocolate and macadamia. I got them on sale at BJ's. Maybe everybody saw a sale on macadamias, spurring on a plethora of white choc, macadamia cookies. Sorry, just having a moment of silliness. These look great! Definitely drool worthy. But I like Grumpy, love these kind of cookies!
duodishes.com
These cookies always taste so nice and buttery! Yours look great...chockful of goodies.
Katy
They all look so good to me; I love them all with equal fervor!!
Linda
You are THE cookie maven! Again a great looking and sounding cookie.
Carrie
i just baked up a storm last night so i'm not going to be making them right now but can i eat some of your's in the meantime?
Creative One
Delicious looking cookies. I don't think I could stop just at one either.
Barbara Bakes
I like my cookies soft too! They look delicious! Maybe I'd better put them on the list to make!
averagebetty
These are my favorite, too! Great looking cookies, HoneyB!