Triple Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

In theory, this recipe sounds DELICIOUS. But because of three things I did, they came out just slightly less tasty. But still good!

The three main chocolates are:
Dark chocolate, which creates the actual cookie yumness.
Milk chocolate chips
White chocolate chips

The first mistake, which accounts for two errors in the cookies, was following this recipe exactly. First was adding the full amount of flour. It calls for 1 1/4 cups. I suggest sticking to 1 at the most, or maybe a little less.

Second was adding the full amount of macadamia nuts. It was an overload for the cookies! It calls for a cup of macadamia halves-- I suggest 1/2 cup of macadamia quarters (which you'll cut yourself, since they come halved) then judging further from there.

The third was my inability to tell when chocolate cookies are done. I mean, it's hard to tell when a cookie is brown on the edges when the entire dough is brown.. So two of my three trays ended up slightly overcooked.

With the dark chocolate, the recipe calls for 11oz of at least 70% cacao.
The problem with this is that a 3.5oz bar of 72% costs $4.69 at my store.

So, not wanting to totally bland-up my cookies, I bought one bar of the expensive stuff, then two bars of the Hershey's Special Dark bars (4.25oz each) to get what I needed.

Everything else seemed to be contributing to a perfect cookie recipe! Since you have to leave them on the pan to firm up anyway, I think cooking them for an even 12 minutes, then taking them out, will be perfect.

Triple Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Recipe:

• 3oz milk chocolate chips
• 3oz white chocolate chips
• 11oz dark chocolate (min. 70% cocao)
• 7tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature, diced
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup self-rising flour
• 1/2 cup macadamia nut quarters (or halves, halved)

Preparation

• Preheat the oven to 350
• Put the two types of chocolate chips in a bowl together, and mix.
• Take one of the chocolate bars (if you did what I did, one of the Hershey Special Dark bars) and break apart all of the squares except three (these three will be melted with the other chocolate.)
• Take the individual squares, break in half again, then mix in with the chocolate chips.
• In a separate, microwave safe bowl, break apart the rest of the chocolate.
• Heat until melted.
• In a third, large bowl, pour the melted chocolate in with the butter. Mix well.
• Add the brown sugar and vanilla extract. Mix.
• Add half of the flour, beat together, then add the rest and beat.
• Use a spoon to mix in the milk, white, and dark chocolate chips/chunks.
• Mix in the macadamia nuts.
• Scoop by tablespoon onto a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper.
• Heat 12 minutes, then remove from oven.
• Allow to cool on the cookie sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.