Recipe: Baking for Your Teacher

The best part of baking is baking for others, and what better excuse than your teacher’s birthday!

Vincent’s teacher got lucky this year. She had a day off on her birthday for the Moon Day Festival, but she must not be forgotten. We baked her some cookies to be delivered the “day after.”

Vincent and I weren’t able to find macadamia nuts–well there were maui onion garlic and abalone flavored, but no regular ol’ plain ones, so we settled for cashew and white chocolate cookies. We found a recipe from our favorite spot, Tastespotting, and we adjusted it a bit. Here’s what we came up with from a little help from Handle the Heat.

• 2 cups all purpose flour–since we added more butter we added another 1/2 cup here
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted & cooled–we just added the whole cup of butter
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg yolk–couldn’t be bothered with the yolk separation so we added the whole egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips–we went with two cups here (the whole package)
• 1 cup chopped macadamia nuts (one cup didn’t look like enough to Vincent, so it was more like another 1/3 added)
• plus, we added our family secret: cinnamon!