The best part of baking is baking for others, and what better excuse than your teacher’s birthday!
Vincent’s teacher got lucky this year. She had a day off on her birthday for the Moon Day Festival, but she must not be forgotten. We baked her some cookies to be delivered the “day after.”
Vincent and I weren’t able to find macadamia nuts–well there were maui onion garlic and abalone flavored, but no regular ol’ plain ones, so we settled for cashew and white chocolate cookies. We found a recipe from our favorite spot, Tastespotting, and we adjusted it a bit. Here’s what we came up with from a little help from Handle the Heat.
- 2 cups all purpose flour–since we added more butter we added another 1/2 cup here
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted & cooled–we just added the whole cup of butter
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk–couldn’t be bothered with the yolk separation so we added the whole egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips–we went with two cups here (the whole package)
- 1 cup chopped macadamia nuts (one cup didn’t look like enough to Vincent, so it was more like another 1/3 added)
- plus, we added our family secret: cinnamon!
