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1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Melt 170g of the chocolate, then allow to cool. Beat in the butter, eggs, sugars and vanilla, preferably with an electric hand whisk, until creamy. Stir in the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and cranberries with two-thirds of the remaining chocolate and macadamias, to make a stiff dough.
2. Using a tablespoon measure or a small ice-cream scoop, drop small mounds onto a large baking dish, spacing them well apart, then poke in the reserved chocolate, nuts and berries. Bake in batches for 12 mins until pale golden, leave to harden for 1-2 mins, then cool on a wire rack.
3. To freeze, open-freeze the raw cookie dough scoops on baking trays; when solid, pack them into a freezer container, interleaving the layers with baking parchment. Use within 3 months. Bake from frozen for 15-20 mins.

149 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 18g, fat 8 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 0g, salt 0.14 g

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• Felicity Hey

  02 November 2009

  Felicity Hey commented on this recipe

  These biscuits are absolutely delicious; short, crunchy yet rich. I wondered if the amount of white choc was a mistake, but it isn't. Finding the nuts was very difficult in my rural part of North Yorkshire, but I found a snackpack 150g of mixed dried cranberries and macadamia nuts at Morrisons in Skipton. The biscuits spread a bit more than in the photo. Baked them in the top oven of my Aga, with the cold tray in. Well worth the cost of ingredients, and don't even think of using margarine, the extra on butter is necessary for the flavour!

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• uptospeed

  18 November 2009

  uptospeed commented on this recipe

  Lovely biscuits. The recipe was more than enough for me to make a batch and freeze the rest and i have already taken out some and cooked from frozen. Great if friends are dropping in and for you to quickly pop in the oven.

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• Julie

  20 November 2009

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  The flavour of these biscuits is lovely - but it does not clearly explain what you do with the melted chocolate. I put the melted chocolate in the mixture but when the cookies were baking they spread too much and were quite flat. They did not look like the picture at all. any comments gratefully received. Julie

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Ingredients

• 3 x 200g white chocolate bars, chopped
• 200g butter
• 2 eggs
• 100g light muscovado sugar
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 350g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 100g dried cranberries
• 100g macadamia nuts , chopped

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Makes 55

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Prep 20 mins

Cook 12 mins

Ingredients

• 3 x 200g white chocolate bars, chopped
• 200g butter
• 2 eggs
• 100g light muscovado sugar
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 350g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 100g dried cranberries
• 100g macadamia nuts , chopped

149 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 18g, fat 8 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 0g, salt 0.14 g

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