These are hands-down best Peanut Butter Macadamia Nut White Chocolate Cookies of my life! They’re crispy on the edges, soft and chewy in the center, and loaded with melty peanut butter chips!
I have a confession: there’s been a cookie ban in this house.
There was a minor incident, when the chickpea was itty bitty, where my crazy nursing hormones told me I had to eat every cookie that ever existed. I know you’ve come to accept my flair for the dramatic, so let me elaborate: I ate a LOT of freaking cookies. Hundreds, even. I would stay up late at night, combing through recipes, baking batch after batch, to the point that I had a container on the counter, in the fridge, and in the freezer at all times. It went on like this for months until Paul staged an intervention and banned me from making a single crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, melt in your mouth cookie. Banned.
That is, until my friend Richard told me I had to make him peanut butter white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.
He even sent along a photo so I wouldn’t get confused and try to sneak in some uber dark chocolate or any “healthy crap” into his precious cookies.
Like I would do something like that.
I so would.
Then he booked a flight from Miami and hauled his butt out here. Of course by the time the cookie monster and wifey arrived I had already eaten an entire batch, save for the one my sassy redhead Anna took as payment for helping me stage these holy-cow-I-want-to-eat-these-forever cookies. Because I know myself all too well, I stored a back-up stash of dough balls in the freezer and baked them up fresh for my cookie thieves visitors, who arrived just in time to polish them off.
Getting a thumbs up from one of the pickiest eaters I know? Made my day. Week, even. The cookie ban is over!I get by with a little help from my friends. All cheesiness aside, I seriously don’t know what I’d do with out these guys. Thanks for keeping me inspired and sane. Or should I say semi-sane? I’ll always be a few crayons short of that box!
Peanut Butter Macadamia Nut White Chocolate Cookies
Peanut Butter Macadamia Nut White Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter (softened)
- ½ cup light brown sugar (packed)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla
- ¾ cup all-natural peanut butter chips
- ½ cup white chocolate chips or chunks
- ½ cup macadamia nuts
Instructions
- Bring butter and egg to room temperature.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Using an electric hand-mixer, cream softened butter for 2 to 3 minutes. Add both sugars and continue creaming mixture on medium speed until it is smooth and lump free, about 1 minute. Scrape down sides of bowl as needed while mixing. Next add egg and vanilla and beat on low speed for around15 seconds, or until they are fully incorporated, taking care not to over-beat te eggs into the dough.
- Reduce mixer speed to low and slowly add sifted flour mixture until all of the flour is incorporated. Scrape down sides of bowl. Fold in white chocolate, nuts and peanut butter chips.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Next scoop heaping tablespoons of dough from the bowl, roll into balls, and place on parchment paper, spaced slightly. Freeze anywhere from 1 hour to overnight. Once frozen, transfer to a plastic bag and bake as desired or make them all and channel your inner cookie monster.
- When ready to bake: preheat oven to 350 degrees F and bake cookies on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, spaced a few inches apart, placed on the center rack of oven for 12-14 minutes. They're best when slightly doughy in the middle and lightly golden and crispy around the edges. Allow cookies to cool completely and store wrapped individually in plastic wrap and placed in an airtight container.
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It’s the right thing to do.
I love their faces off.
Can I use regular natural peanut butter, instead of peanut butter chips?
Hi Jay! Soft peanut butter will change the dough and structure of the recipe so you would want to rework the whole recipe into a peanut butter cookie base for the white chocolate and macadamia nuts. Without experimenting I can’t really advise on measurements to try. Maybe find a good PB cookie recipe that works with natural peanut butter to start? Hope that helps! xo
Do I have to freeze the dough before baking?
Hey Matt! Nope! I pop mine in the freezer to “blast chill” sometimes and other times I just get my bake on!
Forcing my wife to make these for me right now whether she wants to or not. WANT.
Greatest cookies ever!
i have pinned this recipe to recreate! i am totally obsessed with peanut butter and i can imagine how good the macadamia and white chocolate tastes as well in the cookie mixture. definitely craving a bite of one right now!
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….these are ridiculous and the ban should be lifted for eternity.
These would probably get banned here too, cause I couldn’t stop eating them. Absolutely awesome!
Thanks Matt! Everyone keeps demanding that I make more, so at least I’m forced to share =)
wheres my almond joy cookie?
Crap! Coming right up!
Your relationship with cookies is like my relationship with nuts! I’m so obsessed that ive banned myself from them, ha!
Lift the ban! It’s more fun to live on the edge and get a bit nutty! <3
Love the new look, and hopefully I’ll see comment responses now. Fingers crossed.
Full boxes of crayons are boring and leave nothing to the imagination.
I love your face and these cookies!
Help meeee! I can’t figure this ish out!
I am so effing excited. The little things…
“I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so SCARED!”
You can never have too many cookies. Which leads to my belief of never having enough sweatpants! These look delish!
I have plenty of each; life is good! Thanks M!
Yum! You combined two of my favorite cookies in a way I never thought of!
I shouldn’t have been so much into making the meals and more into making cookies to have right now. {Sad face} Because, everyone knows that cookies are what makes people get well quicker.
You have a point! I think we need an rx for a dozen cookies. It’s science. Hope you’re feeling better!!!
Ahh we reap the benefits when the cookie ban is lifted! It makes me quite happy that there is no chocolate in this actually since I’m not the biggest fan. Peanut butter, on the other hand, is my kryptonite!
You can even skip the white chocolate and add MORE peanut butter! SO GOOD! <3