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Recipe: Baking for Your Teacher

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!

Vincent properly chopped these nuts with the "big" knife, and he did just fine.