Macadamia Nut Cookies

Today I'm sharing with you the recipe for my most favorite cookie ever. My brother-in-law's parents make the best Macadamia Nut cookies I've had. They lived in Hawaii for many years, so they had easy access to macadamia nuts. This is an original recipe created by LaVar Krantz.

This is one of the few recipes that I don't substitute some of the butter with applesauce. I make them with white chocolate chips instead of semi-sweet, but either way is delicious. I just need to go back to Hawaii to replenish my macadamia nut supply.

Macadamia Nut Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
printable recipe

recipe created by LaVar Krantz (shared with his permission)

Yield: about 40 cookies

1 c. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt if using salted nuts, 3/4 tsp. if using unsalted nuts
2 1/3 c. flour
1 c. coconut
1 c. chopped macadamia nuts
2 1/4 c. chocolate chips (I like white chocolate chips)

Directions

In a large bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, sugar, and vanilla and beat until creamy and fluffy. Beat in 2 eggs.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the creamed ingredients in the larger bowl.
Stir in chocolate chips, macadamia nuts and coconut by hand with a large spoon.
Drop by teaspoon (or cookie scoop) onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake at 350 for regular oven and about 330 for convection oven. Bake for about 8 minutes and then turn cookie sheet in oven and bake for an additional 2-3 minutes.

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

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