Fudgey Macadamia Cookies 

If you enjoy crispy, chocolate cookies with nuts, have I got a cookie for you!

The name implied to me that the recipe produced a soft, deep chocolate cookie.  Instead, they have a mild chocolate flavor like with traditional chocolate chip cookies, except all melted together.  The macadamia nuts add a buttery and salty tinge to the afterbite that makes me instinctly want to take another bite.  With a tall glass of cold milk on the side, I had to seriously cut myself off after the second cookie.

Now, these cookies are really no more evil in calories than any other cookie.  my secret cookie book says one cookie has 135 calories.  If you care about that sort of thing.  Of course, if you're counting calories, you're probably not reading this post.  So who am I talking to?!  Sorry, I've bunny trailed.

Let's just start baking, shall we?

HERE'S ALL IT TAKES

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, melted & cooled
• 1 egg

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts

Heat oven to 350ºF.

Finely chop 1 square of unsweetened chocolate.  Use a small microwaveable bowl, microwave chocolate at 70% power for 30 seconds, check for melted edges.  Nuke 10 to 15 seconds until melted around the edges.  Stir until smooth.

Beat sugar, butter, vanilla, melted chocolate and egg in a large electric mixer bowl on medium speed.  Mix all the dry ingredients together then stir into the wet ingredients.

Use a 1 inch scooper to drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough about 2 inches apart on to greased cookie sheet.  Bake 9 to 11 minutes until almost no indentation remains when touched in the center.  Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from sheet to wire rack.

Pour a cold glass of milk and you're ready to be a kid again!