White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

Name: White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
Cook time: 18 min
Yield: 16 cookies
Ingredients: 8 tbsp unsalted butter; 0.5 cup light brown sugar; 0.333 cup granulated sugar; 1 each egg; 1 each egg yolk; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 0.75 tsp table salt; 0.5 tsp baking powder; 0.5 tsp baking soda; 1.5 cup king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour; 0.667 cup macadamia nuts; 0.5 cup white chocolate

Sarah Jampel · kingarthurbaking.com · Original Recipe

Compared to chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies are a recent invention, coming onto the cookie scene only in the 1980s. But they’ve quickly become a classi

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Ingredients

unsalted butter(113g, softened)8 tbsp (114g)

light brown sugar(107g, packed)0.5 cup (107g)

granulated sugar(66g)0.333 cup (66g)

egg1 each (50g)

egg yolk1 each (18g)

vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)

table salt0.75 tsp (2g)

baking powder0.5 tsp (2g)

baking soda0.5 tsp (3g)

king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour(180g)1.5 cup (180g)

macadamia nuts(100g, roasted and coarsely chopped)0.667 cup (100g)

white chocolate(85g, chopped from a bar*)0.5 cup (85g)

Total dough weight736g

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: room temp
Eggs: mixed
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 16-18 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~16 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.3. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.58 (59th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.04 (30th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar1.62 (81th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.38 (85th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.47 (17th percentile)

Fat %15.4 (47th percentile)

Sugar %23.5 (74th percentile)

Hydration0.38 (79th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.58

Flour:Sugar

1.04

Brown:White Sugar

1.62

Egg:Flour

0.38

Chocolate:Flour

0.47

Fat %

15.4

Sugar %

23.5

Flour %

24.5

Hydration