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Ingredients
- 175g / 5.5 oz butter, unsalted, softened (11 US tbsp)
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup white sugar , caster/superfine best
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 egg yolks (Note 6 for using leftover whites)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract/essence
- 1 1/2 cups flour , plain/all purpose
- 1/2 cup rice flour (sub with plain) (Note 1)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 100g / 3.5 oz macadamias , roughly chopped (Note 2)
- 125g / 4 oz white eating chocolate , chopped into pretty small pieces (not baking chocolate, Note 3)
Instructions
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Beat butter, sugar and salt on medium (speed 5) using a hand held mixer for 1 minute until smooth.
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Add egg yolks and vanilla, beat for 1 minute or until smooth.
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Add baking powder, rice flour and half the plain flour. Beat with mixer on medium speed until flour is incorporated.
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Add remaining flour and beat with mixer until flour is incorporated. Add macadamia nuts and chocolate, then mix through with a wooden spoon (dough gets a bit too hard to use mixer).
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Scrape mixture onto a work surface, press together and shape into a 22cm/9″ log.
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Roll up in baking paper or cling wrap, twist ends then refrigerate for 2 hours.
SLICE AND BAKE:
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Preheat oven to 200°C/390°F (180°C fan).
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Line 2 trays with baking paper.
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Remove log from fridge, unwrap and slice into 1.75cm / 3/4″ thick slices (12 – 13 cookies).
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Place 6 on each tray, bake for 10 minutes.
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Turn oven down to 170°C/340°F (150°C fan), switch the trays between shelves.
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Bake 15 minutes, remove from oven and cool cookies on tray.
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Cool fully before serving.
Recipe Notes:
2. Macadamia nuts – chop these into largish pieces, halves or quarters. You want nice big pieces for optimal eating experience!
3. White Chocolate – Use eating chocolate rather than baking white chocolate, it tastes better than cooking chocolate in this particular recipe (only recipe where I recommend this, because white cooking chocolate quality just isn’t up to the standard of milk and dark chocolate).
Cut smaller than the nuts. If too large, they can make the surface too cracked because there’s too much big “stuff” in the cookie. The trick here is to have more bits of white chocolate throughout in smaller pieces (concluded after close inspection of Byron Bay cookies!).
4. Customise – switch the macadamias and chocolate for other things of choice, such as chocolate chunks, dried fruit, nuts, caramel bits. 1 – 1.25 cups in total. Or top with M&M’s for the Byron Bay “Dotty” cookies!
5. Baking notes:
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