White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies have to be some of the BEST cookies ever.  These cookies are slightly crisp on the outside with a soft and chewy inside, full of chunks of macadamia nuts and white chocolate.  Very drool worthy!  What is your favorite kind of cookie?

INGREDIENTS

• 1 pound (2 cups) butter, room temperature
• 1 2/3 cup brown sugar, packed 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla
• 4 ¼ cup all purpose unbleached white flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups (12 ounce bag) white chocolate chips or chunks
• 1 ¼ cup (4 ounces) macadamia nuts, roughly chopped

DIRECTIONS

• 1. This recipe makes a large batch of 48 full size cookies. The full batch will fit in a 5 quart mixer. Divide the recipe in half if needed.
• 2. Make sure the oven keeps the right temperature. The cookies may need a minute or two more or less than stated.
• 3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• 4. Line baking sheets with parchment paper (no need to grease).
• 5. Measure flour, baking soda and salt in a large bowl and blend together. Set aside.
• 6. In a large mixing bowl, preferably a heavy-duty mixer, and using the paddle or beater attachment, beat butter until creamy.
• 7. Add brown sugar and beat again. Scrape down the bowl and add the granulated sugar. Beat until fluffy.
• 8. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
• 9. Add vanilla, beat and scrape again.
• 10. On low speed, add flour mixture 2 cups at a time, and mix well.
• 11. Mix in white chocolate and macadamia nuts. Mix only until blended.
• 12. Using a cookie scoop, place dough on prepared baking sheets, spacing evenly to allow for spreading.
• 13. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Do NOT over bake these cookies. They continue to bake for a few minutes after they are removed from the oven.
• 14. Transfer to cooling racks. Store in air tight container or plastic bag to stay soft and moist.
• 15. Makes 48 warm and gooey cookies.

I only label a post food porn when it is so utterly delicious that it makes my eyes roll into the back of my head and this English Toffee does just that!  I’m serious folks and had it not been for 5 of us in the family eating it in about 3 seconds, I would have a picture of me devouring it to prove it’s worthiness of the title.

Now I’ve had toffee in the past, hard-plain toffee that is okay but this?…….this is exceptional.  Not only is the toffee not near as hard as what you would buy in the store but it’s surrounded by more pieces of heaven like milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or white satin which was the one that made my toes curl and truly are life’s essential indulgence for this gal!

You want to know the “in-a-nutshell” version of how this toffee came about?  This gal, a regular gal like me, was making this in her home as a way to create gifts for family and friends.  She was encouraged to sell her toffee on the Internet and well, the rest is history.  Just goes to show you that great things can happen if you set your mind.

Did you think I would tease you and not give you a way to WIN IT?  HA! Thanks to the generous folks at English Toffee Anytime, there will be 7 total winners in this tasty giveaway!

WHAT YOU WIN

• *1st prize – one pound box of toffee, their choice of flavor (milk, dark or white)
• *2nd prize – half pound box of toffee, their choice of flavor (milk, dark or white)
• *3rd prizes – 5 third prizes of the Triple Taste-The-Toffee sampler

I don’t know about you but 3rd place to me won’t be so bad eh?

HOW TO ENTER

Main Entry-- Visit English Toffee Anytime, come back here leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite flavor that you would like to try AND one other fact from the website.  This is just so I know that you actually visited this fine sponsor;) Visiting a sponsor is the least we can do for such wonderful prizes right?

Earn additional entries by completely the following.  Each one earns you one entry.

• Twitter this giveaway by copying and pasting the paragraph here

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PLEASE LEAVE EACH ENTRY YOU DO IN A SEPARATE COMMENT!

If you can’t stand it and have $3 bucks, you can actually try the English Toffee sampler!!  The $3 covers shipping and the sampler is free:) Gift certificates are offered as well!

ONE MORE THING: If you decide you want to make a purchase, contact English Toffee Anytime and tell them you entered my giveaway (you must enter my giveaway of course;) and they will give you a discount coupon code to use on that purchase!!

Giveaway ends on January 10th, is only open to the US (sorry) and as always, read the “fine print“.