Cookie Recipes
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
Love white chocolate? Dippity do sweet and easy drop cookies.
Prep: 10 min | Bake: 10 to 12 min | Yield: 48 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 (10 ounce) bag white vanilla baking chips (1 2/3 cups)
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 cup coarsely chopped macadamia nuts
- Paste icing color
- 16 ounces vanilla-flavored candy coating (almond bark), melted
Instructions
- Heat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Place 1 cup of the baking chips in a 2 cup microwavable measuring cup.
- Microwave uncovered on MEDIUM (50%) for 3 to 4 minutes or until chips are softened.
- Stir chips until smooth; cool.
- In a large bowl, beat sugar, butter, vanilla extract and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy.
- Beat in melted chips on low speed.
- Stir in flour, baking soda and cream of tartar.
- Stir in remaining 2/3 cup baking chips and the nuts.
- Drop dough by rounded teaspoonsful about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until very light brown.
- Cool for 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
- Stir enough paste icing color into melted coating until desired color. (Liquid food color would stiffen the coating.)
- Dip half of each cookie into colored coating; place on waxed paper until firm.
Notes
Expert Tip: If you like, divide coating in half and tint each half a different color. Dip half of each cookie into coating; place on waxed paper until firm. Let first color set before dipping again.
Nutrition
Per 1 cookie: Calories 110 (Calories from Fat 55), Total Fat 6g (Saturated Fat 3g, Trans Fat ncg), Cholesterol 15mg; Sodium 50mg; Total Carbohydrate 12g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars ncg), Protein 2g
Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2.00%; Vitamin C 0.00%; Calcium 2.00%; Iron 2.00%
Exchanges: 1 Starch; 1 Fat
Carbohydrate Choices: nc
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Betty Crocker Kitchens