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Cherry-White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Cookies

November 26, 2012 By Betsy Cohen

A New Favorite Cookie

Cherry-White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut CookiesThanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, because the food is always delicious and the company is superb. Yet, there is another reason why I love this holiday so much; Friday night is Thanksabbat. Thanks-a-what?

Thanksabbat is the ‘holiday’ we created years ago for the Shabbat after Thanksgiving. I have done this holiday with Ellen and Marc Kaufman, and the combination of kids who are available, for more years than I can count. The food for this ‘new’ holiday is the leftovers that each household has from the big feast on Thursday.

I can truly say that I think there is a part of all of us that looks forward to Thanksabbat more than Thanksgiving. This year was no exception. The Kaufmans are truly a part of our ‘family,’ the ones who are so much a part of our life that they are, indeed, family.

When it came to dessert this year, we were in heaven. There were at least a dozen desserts from which we could choose. One that stood out as over-the-top wonderful was the Cranberry-White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Cookie that Ellen baked. It was delicious and I, immediately, asked for the recipe.

I must admit that after Thanksgiving, I just did not have the desire to bake with cranberries. Fortunately, I had plenty of dried cherries in the pantry, so I simply substituted them for the cranberries.

I am so glad that I did. The combination of the cherries, white chocolate and roasted macadamia nuts worked perfectly together.

This holiday season, I highly recommend offering Cherry-White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Cookies on Christmas Eve. Who knows, maybe these will be Santa’s new favorite cookies, too!

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Cherry-White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Cookies
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Recipe Type: Dessert
Author: adapted from: Bon Appetit
Prep time: 25 mins
Cook time: 14 mins
Total time: 39 mins
Serves: 68-70
Ingredients
  • 1 cup roasted & salted macadamia nuts
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1½ cups dried cherries
  • 1½ cups white chocolate chunks
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. Coarsely chop macadamia nuts and set aside.
  3. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
  4. Place the butter, brown sugar and sugar into a large mixing bowl. Beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes, scraping the bowl down as needed. Add eggs, one at a time followed by vanilla.
  5. Blend in dry ingredients. Lastly mix in macadamia nuts, dried cherries and white chocolate chunks.
  6. Use a 1½ teaspoon cookie scoop to generously scoop the dough into balls and place them on the prepared baking sheets. ‘
  7. Bake at 350° for 14 minutes, rotating the pans top to bottom and front to back halfway through. Cool on baking sheets.
Notes
Cook time is per batch of cookies.
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Happylicious By Betsy December 2015 lo res I have loved desserts for as long as I can remember. Growing up I loved the smell of freshly baked challah in my maternal great-grandmother’s kitchen, the incredible butter cookies from my paternal grandmother and the perfect pies my mother used to bake when company came over. More about me.
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