Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted & cooled
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped macadamia nuts
Directions
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Adjust an oven rack to lower-middle position and heat the oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl.
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In a large bowl, beat the melted butter and sugars together with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Beat in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla until combined.
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Reduce mixer speed to low and slowly add the flour mixture until combined. Mix in the white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts until incorporated.
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Working with 2 tablespoons of dough at a time, roll the dough into even balls and lay them on the baking sheets, spaced about 2 inches apart.
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Bake the cookies until the edges are set and beginning to brown but the centers are still soft and puffy, about 16 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes, then serve warm or transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
Recipe Notes
From Field Guide to Cookies
Fantastic recipe! The description at the top of the recipe describes these cookies perfectly, as they are both crispy at the edges but soft on the inside, with that chewy texture. Love them!
I kept a batch in the fridge for about 2 days and baked them off and they came out just as good as the “fresh” batch. Make these cookies!
So glad to hear you loved this recipe, Josh! “Marinating” your cookie dough in the fridge is always a great idea to enhance flavor and texture, happy you tried it!
Absolutely wonderful! Adjusted for altitude and baked from a round, unflattened ball. I also added the zest of a lime, which adds a distinct and unusual flavor. Half that amount might have been more nicely subtle. I think we’ll see this recipe again!
Ooo sounds incredibly delicious!
Too much sugar and not chewy at all- a disaster
Perfect recipe! Everyone loved my WCMN cookie based on this recipe. Thanks, Tessa
Hi! I would love to try this recipe I’m just not sure what kind of macadamia nuts I should use. Salted or unsalted, roasted or raw?
Just made these because I got macadamia nuts at Costco, SUUUUCH A GOOD COOKIE RECIPE!
texture is marvelous, cooking time on point and the ratio of add ins is spot on – going to be making these a lot, but no sharing! om nom nom
O.M.G. I have just found the ultimate cookie recipe ever! Thank you so much 🙂 I made a batch of these for work, everyone loved them, and today I made another batch for work only substituting macadamias with pecans (purely only because I needed to use them) . But they are so easy- took 1 hour max from start to finish. Next I had better make your blondes 🙂
It’s supper easy recipe!! Thank you!
Aloha! My family and I loved this recipe. We used fresh crushed hawaii macadamia nuts from a local farm out here, and the recipe turned out sooo good! mahalo for this blog:)
my wife made these and they were delicious
iknw they were good
these were great and this really helped me with my speech!!!! thanks :3
A little tip for keeping cookies soft (works for brown sugar too) put a piece of bread in the cookie jar (or brown sugar container) and it keeps them moist and fresh longer. Works on store bought or homemade cookies. 🙂 Definitely going to try these!
im making these right now im so excited to see how they turn out, the dough tastes amazing I cannot stop eating it 🙂
Oh gosh these look good!! White chocolate is on my list of weaknesses, falling right after my #1: peanut butter.
omg i love macadamia nut cookies! they are so addicting. i'm glad i found a recipe so i can make my own instead of stalking every nearby subway.
I live in South Africa, but developed an obsession with Tim Horton's wcmn cookies while working in Toronto for a couple of months…
I tried out this recipe in SA and these cookies taste like the real thing:)! Yummie!
These are one of my favorite cookies! The combination is just heavenly. Totally addicting! Can't wait to make them!
Yummy! I found mine to be a bit salty, but I used salted nuts. Next time I will cut out the salt if I have salted nuts or use unsalted nuts. Took these to work and everyone raved!
This cookie is so delicious OMG I could bake this over and over again!!!!
Yummy,This cookies are awesome and white chocolate is my fav! I never taste this one but I'm sure they are really very very delicious,i tried this at home.thnx for posting.
This cookies are awesome! wow! white chocolate! I never taste this one but I'm sure they are really very yummy..
I just made these! I am living abroad in Sweden and since these are my favorite cookie in America, I had to make them for my Swedish roommate and he loved them too!
Beautiful cookies, great blog post!
these are one of my all-time favorite cookie! i will have to make some soon!
Yup, I've made this kind of cookie too with lime zest added – they where amazing!
I'm not actually a big fan of white chocolate but these cookies look so good I don't think I can pass them up!
A suggestion: instead of 2 teaspoons of vanilla, use 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1 teaspoon almond extract.
I had run out of vanilla while making these cookies and needed something to compensate, so this was a total accident, but the cookies were AMAZING!
Beautiful photos! These cookies look great!
Stunning, this is an absolute favourite flavour of mine. I love the ones I get at Subway but these look even more yummy.
*kisses* HH
I'm so glad I found your site, and this recipe. I absolutely LOVE WCMN cookies and I've only tried to make them once. It turned out to be a disaster and I was so bummed I blew all of that money on macadamia nuts. You've inspired me to try it again! Thanks!