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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie

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Chewy and Delicious

Best cookies ever says my husband who doesn’t eat cookies. This was the first time I made a thin chewy cookie instead of a cakey cookie, and it just so happens to be my favorite cookie flavor so I was doubley happy for the win on this one.

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cup flour
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 cup white chocolate chips
  • 1 cup macadamia nuts

Directions

  1. In the bowl of a stand mixer cream the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla together.
  2. In a separate medium sized mixing bowl mix all your dry ingredients together to combine.
  3. Slowly combine the dry ingredients with the wet until well mixed.
  4. Remove the bowl from the mixer and fold in your chocolate and nuts.
  5. Wrap bowl in plastic wrap and chill for two hours.
  6. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment and using an ice cream scoop drop cookies about an inch apart on the sheets.
  7. Bake for about 9 minutes until the edges are slightly browned.
  8. Let cool for a couple minutes on the baking sheet then move to a cooling rack.
  9. Either repeat the process with the leftover dough or freeze it to enjoy later.

Chocolate cloud cakes

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Chocolate marshmallow madness

I am a person who bakes for fun. I never thought I would be here but here we are. So now my stir crazy boredom has given life to cloud cakes. Fluffy chonky cookies with fudgy chocolate chunks and marshmallow. I call it nut allergy friendly Rocky road.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Baking soda
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp. Ground cinnamon
  • 2 sticks of room temp butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chunk
  • 1/3 cup mini marshmallows

Directions

  1. In the bowl of your stand mixer cream together your sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk together till fluffy and combined.
  2. In a separate bowl whisk together all dry ingredients till combined.
  3. Slowly combine dry ingredients with your wet until combined.
  4. Fold in your chocolate and marshmallow until mixed well through out.
  5. Bake in a preheated to 375 degree oven for roughly 18 minutes.

They are a cakey cookie because of the buttermilk so they take longer to cook.

Garbage Cookie

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Salty Sweet Amazing

These cookies were put together during a rare night I got to myself. I needed something sweet and a project to keep me busy.

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup pretzel pieces
  • 1/2 cup mixed candy(m&m, peanut butter cups, butterscotch bits, etc.)

Directions

  1. Mix your flour, salt and baking soda together in a small mixing bowl.
  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer cream your butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs together till light and fluffy.
  3. Add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients till well combined.
  4. Fold in your mix-ins till evenly combined in your dough.
  5. Spoon out your cookies onto a parchment lined baking sheet. About an inch apart.
  6. Place a pretzel into the top of each cookie.
  7. Put in an oven preheated to 375 for 9 minutes till golden brown.

Ta Da! Garbage cookies!

Lemon Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies: An experiment

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Yesterday I was home with my son and decided I wanted to bake some cookies I had never made before. I Used Rosanna Pansino’s Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie recipe as a jumping off point. I added about 1/3 cup of lemon curd to the recipe. It made them very moist but strangely didn’t impart very much lemon flavor. I think the next time I make them I’m going to make them like thumb print cookies. I’ll create a well in the cookie so when it bakes there’s a place to put lemon curd after they’re baked. Then I’ll cool them so they resemble a lemon bar.

Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/4 sticks of butter
  • 3 ounces cream cheese
  • 3/4 granulated sugar
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tbsp. powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/3 cup lemon curd

Directions

  1. Mix everything except the flour in a stand mixer or with a hand mixer until its light and fluffy.
  2. Add the flour and mix until well combined.
  3. Dump cookie dough onto your work surface and roll it into a tube shape. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for an hour.
  4. Preheat oven to 375 and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Cut pieces off the dough and roll into golf ball shapes. Smash dough ball to about half an inch. Cake for about 12 minutes.
  5. Let cool completely before you eat them.

When I let them cool completely the extra moisture sort of recombined into the cookie. Like letting a steak rest and letting the juices go back into the meat. They were not quite what I wanted but they had a good flavor. The texture of them was like cheesecake to a certain degree which I didn’t expect but was good.

I’m going to try them again at a later date and see if I can tweak the recipe a little.