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Ingredients
Macadamia Cookies
- For the dough
- 150 grams butter
- 100 grams sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 grams Milk chocolate
- 1 Vanilla bean (seeds)
- 1 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 180 grams Pastry flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 75 grams chopped Macadamia Nuts
- 75 grams raisins
- 1 egg
- For decoration
- 100 grams dark Couverture
- 100 grams Macadamia Nuts
For the dough, beat the butter, sugar and 1 pinch of salt until fluffy. Stir in the chopped chocolate, vanilla seeds and cinnamon. Mix the flour and baking powder. Knead the flour mixture, nuts, raisins and egg into the butter mixture. Form the dough into a ball, wrap in plastic and chill for about 1 hour.
Use a small spoon to portion out heaps of the dough onto a lined baking sheet. Form each portion into a ball. Bake for about 10 minutes at 180°C (approximately 350°F). Remove from the oven and let cool. For the decoration, coarsely chop the chocolate and melt over a hot water bath. Halve 20 macadamia nuts and coarsely chop the remaining nuts. Top each cookie with a teaspoon of chocolate and one walnut half. Sprinkle with chopped nuts, let dry and serve.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 1,183 cal. | (56 %) | ||
| Protein | 17.04 g | (17 %) | ||
| Fat | 86.17 g | (74 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 101.97 g | (68 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 24.95 g | (100 %) | ||
| Roughage | 4.86 g | (16 %) |