White Chocolate and Macadamia Cookies

Warm cookies right from the oven, oozing with melted chocolate and macadamia nuts. Who can resist them? These cookies are my second offering this week from Jo Pratt’s In the Mood for Food. I had forgotten how many great recipes are in this book and I have a few more recipes book-marked to try in the coming days (so watch this space)! This cookie recipe is quick and easy, and delivers soft, chewy melt-in your mouth cookies that are definitely for those with a sweet tooth. The only trouble with these cookies is that it’s hard to eat only one at a time!

White Chocolate and Macadamia Cookies

Makes about 12 or more

Ingredients
125g butter, softened
85g soft light brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg yolk
150g plain flour
75g white chocolate, chopped or broken into small chunks
50g macadamia nuts, chopped

Preheat the oven to 180ºC/ fan 160ºC/ Gas 4.
Beat together the butter and sugar until it is pale and creamy, either in an electric mixer or by hand.
Beat in the vanilla extract and egg yolk.
Add the flour, white chocolate chunks and chopped nuts. Mix until you have a smooth dough, with the only lumps being the chocolate and nuts.

Using your hands, roll the dough into golf sized ball and lightly press each one flat on to a greased baking sheet, making sure they are spread slightly apart.
Bake for 12 minutes until golden. Remove from the oven and let cool for a couple of minutes before either eating or cooling completely on a wire rack.