I keep forgetting how quick and easy it is to rustle up a batch of cookies. I have a bag of pistachios in the cupboard that needs to be used up, so I decided to make some pistachio & cranberry cookies using a recipe I found on the BBC Good Food website.
However, when I popped across to the supermarket to get some dried cranberries, I saw that they also did packets of cranberries WITH macadamia nuts.
I love macadamia nuts – a little on the expensive side, but you don’t need that many in the macadamia nut & cranberry cookies I ended up making.
They were just so scrumptious! Crumbly, sweet and nutty. A few chunks of white chocolate added to the mix would have gone down a treat as well. I’ll try that combination very soon. I guess I’ll use that bag of pistachios some other time!
Macadamia nut & cranberry cookies
Ingredients
- 175 g/6oz butter softened
- 85 g/3oz golden caster sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 225 g/8oz plain flour
- 150 g/5oz macadamia nuts & cranberries
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar and vanilla extract
- Stir in the flour
- Roughly chop the macadamia nuts & cranberries before adding to the mixing bowl. Bring the mix together as a dough
- Halve the dough and shape each half into a log about 5cm across. Wrap in cling film, then chill for an hour or freeze for up to 3 months
- Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF fan/Gas mark 4
- Slice the logs into 1cm-thick rounds, place on a baking tray lined with baking parchment and bake for 12-15 minutes
- Remove from the oven, leaving the cookies on the tray for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely
I’m not big on cookies or biscuits myself, not into sweet things, but my fav. if I had to pick one is a plain digestive biscuit x
I love shortbread for its buttery taste
we love making cherry biccys mmm
Can’t beat choc chip!
these look delicious, I love cookies. I enjoyed last nights bake off too, I love gingerbread and also oatmeal and raisin
love chocolate chip shortbread cookies xx
I love the cherry biscuits
I love home made shortbread, and I dip it into melted chocolate, yummy!
Love shortbread
I love shortbread biscuits x
i love chocolate chip cookies 🙂
I love shortbread biscuits
I definitely have to make these. They look delicious. Love macadamia nuts.
Cookies are by far my favourite. I’m a regular ‘Cookie Monster’ 😉
White Chocs chip!
My 3 children love homemade biscuits. These look delicious
i can be quite partial to a fig roll!
we make shrewsbury biscuits -really easy and totally delicious
Chocolate chip cookies
I love biscotti with nuts. Great for dunking.
I like to bake lemon and white chocolate chip cookies
chunky chocolate and cherry for me
My favourite was my Grandma’s butter cookies. I should try to make some.
Oat and raisin cookies
I love any type of caramel biscuits
White chocolate and raspberry cookies. Yummy.
Chocolate chip cookies for me and grandchildren
I love those cookies that are almost like a cake, you know squishy biccies. can’t remember what they are called. Have tried to bake some but not much success YET!!!
Anything oaty …love em x
Ooh they sound gorgeous! My favourite cookie is peanut butter & chocolate cookies that my kids make. Rather rich but so delicious!
The classic choc chip cookie .
Bourbon is my favourite
Looks delicious. Must try the recipe.
I like shortbread.
My favourite biscuit is a classic shortbread. Easy to make and always delicious!
I love shortbread it’s very light and tasty
white chocolate and raspberry cookies yum yum
I like Shortbread. 🙂
My favourite has to be ginger snaps
love to make scrummy buttery melt in the mouth biccies always go down well
I love making rosemary shortbread – I adapted a lavender shortbread recipe which I was not to keen on .
I make some lovely chunky chocolate chip cookies with my son. They are my favourites as they are all gooey inside 🙂
double chocolate chip cookies for me <3
shortbread as so yummy
I like shortbread and double/triple/million chocolate cookies!
We like to make cranberry and white chocolate biscuits.
Mmmm sounds amazing. I love cookies or shortbread – rather partial to a custard cream too!
I absolutely love choc-chip cookies! I’m a definite cookie monster!
I love making Italian style almond biccies, and just recently I have come up with a coconut shortbread recipe which is very yummy.
I like plain biscuits that I can dunk, so either Rich Tea or Marie
I love a custard cream
I love cake, my fav is Lemon Iced Sponge Cake and my fav biscuit is a Dark chocolate Digestive
I love shrewsbury biscuits
you cant beat a cookie fresh out of the oven!
The shortbread looks delicious xx
Argh! The diet WAS supposed to start today. This has made me want to bake after school pick up. Double the crime haha!
Lemon Drizzle.
shortbread x
I’m the worse for sweet things! My favourite cake at the moment is either Red Velvet or Carrot cake but if my Hubby’s aunt asks it’s always Victoria Sponge. She often makes one when we visit even when she’s super busy and really probably doesn’t have the time because she knows it my favourite.
These look amazing 😀 My favourite is chocolate orange cake 😀
wow cant wait to try making these
Excellent lovely recipe
I love making cookies, this recipe is going staring in my baking book.