Macadamia & cranberry American cookies

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• Felicity Hey

  2009-11-02 17:04:48.028306

  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

  2009-11-18 21:19:13.12808

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  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

  2009-11-20 13:26:38.096197

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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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• Ruby

  2009-11-25 15:50:45.709191

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  loved the biscuits, will be making them again. My daughter and husband could'nt stop eating them.

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• josephine

  2009-11-25 21:22:45.79554

  josephine commented on this recipe

  i have not made the cookies yet ,but i am just wondering ,do you add the 140g of cooled choclate ,in with the butter eggs,vanilla and sugars?

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• Mandy Lam

  2009-12-02 18:03:46.158575

  Mandy Lam commented on this recipe

  The way I read the recipe is you add the butter, eggs, sugars and vanilla to the 170g of melted (and cooled) chocolate. I am looking forward to making this recipe. Hopefully I'll be giving it 5 stars!

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• shanni

  2009-12-16 04:51:36.66423

  shanni rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made them with a lot lesser chocolate as i couldnt find enough at home, so i ended up using only about.. 120g of choc? (I was a bit doubtful of the amt of choc in it,anyway. 600grams seemed a bit too much with 275g of sugar. i didnt add any more sugar or anything, and it was still great! I also put only teaspoonfuls of batter each time, so it wasnt too big. :) But how do you keep them from becoming soft? besides putting them in an airtight container in the fridge, i realize that after taking them out of the fridge the cookie will soften after a short while.

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• Ali

  2010-03-04 14:29:33.058772

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• PamelaNZ

  2010-03-22 16:41:18.553205

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• Danielle

  2010-04-06 08:56:05.097348

  Danielle commented on this recipe

  These cookies were absolutely AMAIZING!! I made them for Easter and everyone loved them. I will definately make them again. :)

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• emmawilki

  2010-05-18 19:21:19.214788

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  I made these at Christmas and they were gorgeous. Tried them again but varied the ingredients a bit...dried cranberries and white choc still, but replaced macadamias with pistachios that I poked into the surface before baking. Also left out the cinnamon and just had vanilla. They were beautiful and the cranberries and pistachios looked like jewels. Will make them this way from now on as macadamias are so high in fat!

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• NomNomNom

  2010-10-09 21:55:56.414743

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  Just made this tonight with half the ingredients V. nice though was a bit sweet for me so will cut down chocolate/sugar with the next batch

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• anouk

  2010-11-13 15:28:28.908091

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• tifty

  2010-11-14 21:25:10.360078

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  Fab, froze the mixture and just baked as we needed- lovely!

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• Laura

  2010-11-27 17:12:45.281605

  Laura commented on this recipe

  Made half the recipe, without the nuts, and reduced the chocolate to 200g after reading the comments. Looked lovely but still found them really sweet - I used confectioner's white chocolate not the Milky Bar type so maybe that's the problem. Next time, I'll use less chocolate and only use it for the chips on top and not melt and mix half into the batter. Maybe that will help. It's strange because I normally have a sweet tooth.

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• Madzia.A

  2010-12-31 10:03:57.554286

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• lockheart

  2011-01-17 11:15:01.466909

  lockheart rated and commented on this recipe

  

  tasty, easy to make biscuits. love that you can open freeze and cook easily on demand at later date. used teaspoons, not tablespoons to dish out mix. not too sure about the cinnamon, think i'd leave it out next time. this time i also cut down the unbelieveable amount of chocolate... by around a half i think, but i'd use just 200g next time, half melted, and rest in chunks, would also increase the amount of cranberries. but thats all just personal preference! otherwise, recommended recipe.

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• Julie's grub

  2011-02-02 23:04:50.17837

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• Top Cat

  2011-07-28 10:46:08.223712

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  Good flavour, but not crunchy enough for my liking

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• sk22

  2011-08-16 13:38:13.874101

  sk22 rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made these with a few changes and they are delicious. To start with I halved the recipe as I did not want to freeze any so used 85g of melted white chocolate . I left out the cinnamon and vanilla and only used about another 80g of chopped white choc for the chips. Very quick and easy to make.

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Ingredients

• 3 x 200g/7oz 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/7oz 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, sugar 13g, salt 0.14 g

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