It's too cold to take my little baby anywhere today, and I'm bored out of my head. I'm reluctant to scrub the kitchen floor (as always) or start any other interruptable projects, and it will be hours before we have a visit from an auntie. So I've done what I always fall back on doing: I've made some cookies.
These cookies are unreally delicious: tender, sweet, and full of buttery macadamia nuts. It is definitely hazardous to one's health to spend a cold day indoors with nothing but a baby and these cookies to distract one.
1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup brown rice flour
1/3 cup amaranth flour (or more rice flour)
1/3 cup potato starch
3 tbsp tapioca starch
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp xanthan gum
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup macadamia nuts, quartered
Preheat oven to 350F.
In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars, egg, and vanilla together lightly until well combined. In a separate bowl, whisk flours and starches with soda, xanthan gum, and salt. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture to combine well. Stir in white chocolate and macadamias until well-distributed in the batter.
Roll 1 tbsp of batter at a time into a small ball. (This should result in about 36 balls.) Place balls 2 inches apart on parchment paper-lined cookie sheets. Flatten the balls slightly. Bake cookies for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from oven and cool cookies on racks, if you can resist eating them.
Makes 3 dozen cookies.
