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chocolate-dipped macadamia nut shortbread
When my husband and I were married a little over a year, we moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. For the first month, we didn’t have a car, and had to walk everywhere in the June sun with a little pale, blond baby. The one redeeming thing on our walks was the Big Island Candies store. It was air conditioned, and had the most amazing shortbread cookies. For mail order, you have to order the cookies in these nice boxes, but if you went to the actual store, you could buy them by the bag. And eating through a bag of them in one sitting was not difficult.
When I saw I had some macadamia nuts in the freezer, I thought it would be fun to recreate them.
macadamia nut shortbread
1/2 cup (75g) chopped macadamia nuts
1/3 cup (65g) granulated sugar
1 stick (112g) unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/4 cups (185g) unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup (185g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1. Pulse macadamia nuts in a food processor until very fine. (If it starts to turn into a paste, that’s okay.)
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together nuts, sugar, butter, and salt. Mix in flour until just incorporated.
3. Shape dough into a long rectangle, about 16″x 2″x 1″. Wrap in parchment paper and refrigerate for at least an hour.
4. Preheat oven to 325 degrees (165 degrees celsius). Cut into 1/4 inch slices, place on un-greased cookie sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes. Cool completely.
5, In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave chocolate chips in 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval, until completely melted. Holding on a diagonal, dip half of each cookie in the chocolate. Place on parchment paper, and refrigerate until chocolate is set, about 2 hours.
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These look simple and quite yummy. I like the whole square/diagonal thing, kinda classes it up.
They would also be good with a little nutmeg and cinnamon added to the batter
Yummy! Thanks for sharing! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
Those look absolutely beautiful and delicious. I will certainly be making these soon. On that note, I just put a batch of your Conference Cinnamon Rolls in the refrigerator. I’m not sure that they came out correctly though. The dough was extremely sticky. Do you have any thoughts about why that may be? Or are they supposed to be sticky? They don’t stand up like the ones in the picture. Thanks! And Merry Christmas!
Oh, Jaime. I do hope we are neighbors someday. And that you will bring me all of your leftovers. You never cease to amaze.
Grant wants to know how you happen to have macadamia nuts in your freezer and if he can come raid your kitchen.
Thank you so much for the recipe! I live in Honolulu and I *heart* Big Island candies, but I can’t always go to Hilo to pick them up. Yours look exactly like theirs!! I can’t wait to try these!! Thank you!! -kk
Sounds really good!
We had these same cookies in Kauai and thought we would get some in Oahu at the end of our trip to take home. Then we couldn’t find any. I’m so happy to find your recipe. They look just like the ones we had. Thanks
this is my second cookie im making from your list tonight and your cookies are easy to make ty for that im not the best cookie maker in the world and both this and the meringue cookies turned out perfect!! these are by far my fav! ill be making your chocolate chip cookies once all of these are gone
Hi Jaime – I ran across your blog via my friend Zoe’s blog. If you can believe it, I’m already looking for holiday cookie recipes and this one looks delicious. Thanks for sharing it!
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Just wanted to say a huge thank you for posting this. My parents came back from holidaying in Hawaii and bought back a tin of these cookies and they are divine. Being in the UK shipping would be very expensive so I’m glad I have found this recipe. I am off to race to the shops to buy some mac nuts now. Thank you, thank you
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Another cookie that is wonderful is the choc dipped shortbread from Mrs. Barry’s Cookies in Kona. I LOVE them, in fact her cookies are all delicious. Would love her recipe for them!!! We go over to Kona every year and usually visit Mrs. Barry’s at least 3 times!
These look delicious, I’m sure I could polish off quite a few with a cup of tea!
Mary
My husband and I just returned from a 10 day vacation on the Big Island, and the owner of one the properties in Hilo gave us a bag of these in our welcome basket. I couldn’t find them anywhere except online and they didn’t have mac nuts in them, so I’m going to try making them. Thanks for the hints!
Evette–Aren’t those cookies good?? So jealous that you got to go to the Big Island.
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Thanks for posting this! Stumbled upon this via Pinterest & re-pinned your original post. Since BIC finally opened a kiosk @ Ala Moana Mall you don’t have to travel to Hilo for the “original” anymore. But I hope to try the homemade version, Mahalo!
Mahalo, Theresa! Good luck with the homemade version. Oh, how I wish I had a bag of them from the factory right now.