The Best White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Cookies

The Best White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Cookies are ultra chewy, soft, and incredibly delicious. The addition of a secret ingredient makes them mind blowingly superb. Both the dough and the baked cookies freeze beautifully.

White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies

This year, the first day of spring actually feels like the first day of spring. That’s not always the case, so I’m embracing it 200%.

Once the daytime temps reach 40F and sunshine is abundant, all of Minnesota suddenly pops out of hibernation.

After hunkering down all winter, my neighbor’s puppy now looks 3 feet taller than the last time I saw him. Ditto goes for neighborhood kids we haven’t seen since the first snowfall. That was 5 months ago. For reals, long winter hibernations in some parts of the country are a thing.

Now that it’s officially spring, I’ve given it waayy enough time before returning to the universe of cookies.

Maybe you noticed how I did due my diligence by making (and eating) recipes with no sugar the entire month of January and even most of February. Actually, if you didn’t notice, then I did my job right.

However. Most things are best when balanced. Thus, now is unquestionably the time to bake-eat-share my very favorite chewy white chocolate chip cookies. They’re chewy, soft, and incredible.

Make ‘em bite sized, monster sized, add sprinkles, or nuts…just make them. Special offer: I’ll go first. I even videotaped it.

How to make white chocolate chip macadamia cookies:

Somehow, watching a cookie-making video is soothing. ↑

It’s like a kid with play dough or something.

What Ingredients are needed for the best white chocolate chip cookies?

• The usual team players for white chocolate macadamia cookies: flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, butter, baking soda, salt, and eggs
• We use a generous amount of vanilla extract and a modest amount of almond extract for the most amazing flavor.
• That brings us to our secret ingredient: Almond extract. It isn’t overpowering at all, but lends a special yumminess to the cookies. Nobody would guess your “secret ingredient,” but they’ll wonder how your cookies turn out soooo good. 
• Plenty of real white chocolate chips; use your best quality white chocolate chips, as they’re a star feature.
• Do add crunchy macadamia nuts, if you can. Because macadamia nuts and white chocolate chips go hand in hand like bread and butter. Like peanut butter and jelly. Like salt and pepper. If you can think of any other idioms, email me.

Can the dough or the baked cookies be frozen?

The unbaked dough as well as baked white chocolate chip cookies can absolutely be frozen. It’s what I love about these cookies, actually. I almost always have some unbaked dough in my freezer, which lasts up to several months if sealed airtight. Tip: It works great when you’ve made extra dough from the holidays and then want to do sugar-free January…just freeze the dough. Ask me how I know.

Baked white chocolate macadamia cookies can also be sealed airtight and frozen. They’ll last a couple of weeks and are great for grab-and-go situations. Baked cookies are also great to have on hand for after school treats or for cookie emergencies. Tip: I often freeze leftover cookies so that I get to unfreeze just one when the hankering hits; then I don’t feel obligated to eat all the leftover cookies at once.

That’s provided there are actually any leftovers, as I usually have to fight my boys for my share of treats. True story. Alas, gone are those good old days when they were tiny and they happily munched their Cheerios while I nibbled on cookies in front of their faces.

The end.

Epilogue

Nowadays, getting my share of cookies involves arm wrestling matches or even side shoves against boys much bigger than me.

I often lose these matches, despite my faithful attendance at BodyPump.

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