Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Cookies




Cranberry White Chocolate Chip
 Macadamia Cookie

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*1/2 cup Butter, room temperature

*1/2 cup Brown Sugar

*1/2 cup granulated Sugar

*1 Egg, room temperature

*1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract

*1/2 teaspoon Almond Extract

*2 cups All-purpose Flour, sifted

*1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

*1/2 teaspoon Sea Salt

*1   (9 ounce) bag of mixed Sam’s Choice White Chocolate Chips , Macadamia Nuts and Dried Cranberries OR 1/2 cup of EACH white chocolate chips, chopped macadamia nuts, dried cranberries

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In a stand mixer with paddle attachment on medium low speed or by hand, cream together the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar.

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Add to the creamed mixture the egg, vanilla extract and almond extract. Mix just until combined.
In a mixing bowl sift the dry ingredients: Flour, baking soda and salt.

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Slowly add the dry mixture into the wet mixture just until combined. Remove from mixer and add the white chocolate chips, macadamia nuts and dried cranberries and stir them in to cookie dough.

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Refrigerate cookie dough for 2 hours and scoop cookies onto a Silpat covered 1/2 baking sheet.

Bake the cookies in a pre-heated 375* F. oven for 8-10 minutes or edges barely turn brown.
   


  

Enjoy!
Lindy

Grinch Heart Cookies

Make some fun and yummy Grinch/ Grinch Heart Sugar Cookies with Butter Cream Frosting.

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Supplies Needed:

*Sugar Cookie Recipe (made and cut into round or heart shapes and baked).  See Honey Sugar Cookies

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*Round Cookie Cutter

*Use a pastry bags or frosting bottles with small round tip, grass decorating tip (hair) and small open star tip (heart)

Butter Cream Frosting divided and colored in different colors, mostly Green:  See Butter Cream Frosting

*Green food coloring/paste, for frosting round and heart cookies and Grinch hair

*Black eyebrows, nose and mouth, piping face

*Yellow, piping eyes

*Heart Cookie Cutter

*Red food coloring – Butter Cream Frosting, for the heart

*Pastry Bag with open star tip







Also see Grinch Cookies


Enjoy!
Jessica and Lindy