Friday, January 23, 2009

Cookie Monster

I've been craving cookies lately. And on Tuesday night (a.k.a. Barack Obama night), I realized I had an unopened bag of vegan white chocolate chips lurking in my pantry. I also realized that the next day (Wednesday) was my co-worker Mary's birthday. So I made a quick run to Kroger for macadamia nuts. An hour later, I was licking the bowl while these tasty Vegan White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies baked in the oven:

Yum, yum! White chocolate macadamia cookies were always my fave in my pre-vegan days. But I haven't been able to find cruelty-free white chocolate around here. Thankfully, my super-cool dad placed an order from Vegan Essentials for these chocolate chips and some Teese last month.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them at first, so I stored them away for a rainy day. Then it hit me — I must use my chips for cookies! I used the Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance, but subbed 1 cup of white chocolate chips for the regular semi-sweet chips. And I also folded in 1/2 cup of chopped macadamia nuts. And as usual, I used whole wheat pastry flour in place of the all-purpose.

I brought a batch to work for Mary's birthday and I still have a secret stash at home that I'm working my way through. That recipe makes a crap ton of cookies!

Note to testers: I'm still off-line at home. Grrr! I've tried using different modems and all kinds of stuff. But nothing seems to work. My dad says the computer that I'm borrowing from him may have something wrong with it that's preventing me from being able to connect to the internet. I'm really ready to get back to posting recipes on the tester site! Hopefully, it'll be resolved soon. I will keep ya'll posted.

16 comments:

jessy said...

white chocolate macadamia nut cookies are my favorite! and yours look so awesome, Bianca! i love that you sub in whole wheat flour, too! we always do that and it's so good - people never know that we use whole wheat! muahahahaa!

looking forward to more tester recipes when you can get all connected again!

have a rock'n weekend! :D yay!

LizNoVeggieGirl said...

OOOOOH, fabulous ingredient combination.

Happy Friday!!

Anonymous said...

COOKIES!! I am such a cookie monster, it's insane, lol.

Your rendition of the White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie (also a fave of mine prevegan days) looks really good!

There is a real good recipe for these type of cookies in Eat, Drink, and Be Vegan by Dreena Burton.

Have a great weekend!

Hungry Hungry Dancer said...

oh good lord... those look absolutely amazing

Anonymous said...

OMG! I totally love white chocolate macadamia cookies. I have to make some of these.

Anonymous said...

Why? Why do you have to tease me with such amazing creations!!!??

Hope you get connected soon!

Gina said...

Mmmm! I have a bag of white chocolate chips waiting for be used also. These look fantastic!! Nice and chunky :)

snackaroni said...

Those look phenomenal. They look like the slightly undercooked Subway cookies that I used to love in my pre-vegan days. I'm gonna have to find some vegan white chocolate chips and go to town making some!

Anonymous said...

Yum, those look delicious . . . Macadamia and white chocolate chip was always my favorite kind of "mall" cookie, so I need to hunt down some white choc. chips.

T said...

Wow, I've never heard of vegan white chocolate! These look divine. I've been craving cookies lately too, but part of me wants to tackle a pie... we'll see what comes first.

River (Wing-It Vegan) said...

Your cookies look to die for! I've never had white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies, they sure look yummy... reeeealy yummy...

oh look, it's the Pope!

*steals the cookies and runs off*

Jen said...

yes that VWAV recipe makes a ton of cookies. so does the cc cookie recipe from vegan-a-go-go. what a good idea by adding the white cho chips and macadamias!

and i ONLY use ww flour for everything i bake because white flour is the debil bobby boucher!

Lisa said...

Bianca that's so nice of you to take vegan cookies to work! They look like they turned out wonderfully. Macademia nuts are so rich and delicious. Sorry about your computer problems, hope they are resolved soon.

alaina said...

i want vegan white chocolate :( those cookies look perfect!

Melisser; the Urban Housewife said...

Ooh, I'll bet they were super delish, I love that cookie recipe!

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