White Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies

Mmmm….cookies…. I seldom make cookies coz they are often overly sweet . But since Piggies are coming back for the weekend, I thought I will bake some for them to take back . They can munch on cookies while doing their assignments or surfing the net in their room. Growing kids need to eat round the clock (“,) Cakes can’t keep but cookies can :) I promised Piggy boy I will bake him the sesame cookies I made a week ago. He likes them very much. As Piggy gal doesn’t favor sesame seeds ( sticks to her braces ) I baked another type of cookies for her….haha I have to be fair to her :P ….thus I baked some white chocolate hazelnut cookies for her.

I looked through one of the Australian Women's Weekly Cookbooks, I found this White Chocolate Macademia Nuts Cookies but I substituted macademia nuts with hazelnuts and vanilla essence with orange juice. I reduced the sugar and white chocolate coz she doesn’t like them too sweet. Hmmmmm…the cookies were fantastically yummy. The light tangy orange scent added flavor to the cookies.. Easy to make and melts in the mouth.

Piggies went back with a load of nice goodies….needless to say it was a pleasure to bake for them. I made moist chocolate cake , baked 2 types of cookies and made mango yoghurt ice-cream for them…a very hectic and tiring weekend BUT I enjoyed every minute of it.

Thumbs up for this cookies... a keeper for sure. Even Daddy say it's nice. Crispy and yet melts in the mouth.Yumm... will make another batch next week . I took some to the office as munchies ...... :))))

I digress a bit…..Piggy boy smsed me last night after his dinner. This was what he smsed me:

1st sms : Waaa fantastic oh the fried rice……

2nd sms : the fried rice nice but u gave me a little too much….

3rd sms : Yea..I finished all…so pau now…later in the nite I’ll eat the cake…for supper with a cuppa Nescafe….waa yumm….wat you doing? Sleeping adi meh….so early??
Haha…I enjoyed reading his smses to me…..nevermind the hard work as long as my Piggies enjoy eating :) After reading his smses , I went to bed with a smile on my face.

White Chocolate Hazelnuts Cookies

Ingredients:

120g butter softened (Ori is 125g)
60g soft light brown sugar (ori is 85g)
1/2 tbsp orange juice ( ori is 1 tsp vanilla essence )
1 large egg yolk
150 g plain flour
40 g white chocolate chips ( ori is 75g white chocolate chopped)
50 g hazelnuts – chopped ( ori is 50g macademia nuts -chopped)

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4.

Beat together the butter and sugar until it is pale and creamy, in an electric mixer. Beat in the orange juice and egg yolk. Add the flour, white chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Mix until you have a smooth dough, with the only lumps being the chocolate and nuts. Using your hands, roll the dough into marble-sized balls and lightly press each one flat on to a greased baking sheet, making sure they are spread slightly apart.

Bake for 12 minutes until golden. Remove from the oven and let cool for a couple of minutes before either eating or cooling completely on a wire rack. 

Enjoy!

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