You don’t have to be gluten intolerant to love these Flourless White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Cookies! They’re utterly delicious and made without any flour or butter!
flourless white chocolate chip macadamia cookies are a delicious mouthful!
You guys have gone crazy for my other flourless cookies so today I’m sharing the newest member of the family — flourless (that’s gluten free, no flour or butter) white chocolate chip macadamia cookies. Doesn’t that sound amazing? When I find a great recipe that I like, that everybody else likes, and that’s easy and foolproof, I’m like a dog with a bone, I don’t let go until I’ve experimented with it every which way. You should be glad I have that kind of personality because otherwise we might not have discovered these cookies. They’re phenomenal. And that’s coming from someone who craves those big mall style cookies…But these flourless nut butter cookies are proven winners, I think I’m slowly putting butter and flour out of business!
more gluten free cookies
- Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Flourless Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Flourless Cashew Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Flourless Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
ingredients
One cup nut butter, one half cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 tsp baking soda, and your add-ins… I highly recommend committing the formula to memory!
- macadamia butter
- white chocolate chips
- macadamia nuts
- brown sugar
- egg
- baking soda
If I hadn’t made so many batches of different variations of these cookies, I wouldn’t believe it myself. But just look at them — they’re crunchy on the outside, chunky and chewy on the inside, everything you ever wanted in a cookie. The brown sugar, macadamia butter and white chocolate makes the most fantastic flavor, just like the mall cookies, but it’s all accomplished with minimal ingredients.
this flourless macadamia cookie seems almost too good to be true
The formula is the same as my other flourless cookies — a cup of nut butter (you’re not likely to find macadamia butter out on the market, but you can easily make your own, I include instructions in the recipe) a large egg, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and a touch of baking soda. In this case I added heaps of chopped nuts and white chocolate chips. As you’re mixing up the batter for the first time, you’ll swear it’s not going to work. But keep the faith, those few ingredients miraculously morph into the perfect cookie.
You do NOT have to be gluten intolerant to appreciate these cookies!
variation suggestions for flourless white chocolate chip macadamia cookies
Sooooooooo, yeah, macadamias are expensive and so these are decadently healthy cookies. I would suggest substituting almond butter if you want a similar flavor without the expense, but don’t skip the half cup chopped macadamias. You also might experiment with adding some coconut to the batter.
The next incarnation of these cookies will be something chocolaty…I haven’t decided exactly what yet, but I think it might involve hazelnuts… 😉
Featured comment:
“You can change out the sugar to Swerve if you want sugar free. After experimenting I have found that Lilly’s dark chocolate chips with Stevia make very good cookies. This way you have Keto cookies. Zero gluton, zero flour and zero sugar!!!” ~Cherise
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Flourless Macadamia White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup macadamia nut butter, see instructions below for making your own
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts
macadamia butter
- 2 cups whole roasted and salted macadamia nuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F
to make the macadamia butter
- To make the macadamia butter, put the nuts in the bowl of a food processor and process until the nuts are ground to a butter. Stop the machine and scrape down the sides as necessary. It won’t take long, just a few minutes, and the nuts will go from a grainy mixture to a smooth paste. If you are using a small sized food processor, do this in two batches. Measure out 1 cup for this recipe (you may have a little extra.)
for the cookies
- Whisk the egg and the sugar together in a bowl.
- Blend in the baking soda and macadamia nut butter and stir well. The mixture will thicken as you stir.
- Stir in the chocolate chips and the chopped nuts. The batter will be very moist.
- Using a 1 1/2 inch scoop out the dough and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, 2 inches apart. The paper helps modulate the heat and prevent too much browning on the bottom of the cookies.
- Press each ball down lightly with your fingers to flatten just a bit, don’t flatten entirely, just take the round top down.
- Bake for about 13 minutes until they are just starting to turn golden around the edges, don’t over-bake. They will looked puffed, and under-done, but they will settle down and firm up as they cool. I usually recommend doing a test cookie before you cook the whole batch.
- Let the cookies cool on the pan for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack.
Nutrition
Really yummy cookies. I didn’t have enough macadamia nuts to make the butter so I made cashew butter. For your readers that may prefer not to use brown sugar, I substituted coconut sugar. They turned out really good. Baking in my oven worked best if baked for 8 minutes. 13 minutes produced a crispy cookie but still good. I’ll feed the crispy ones to my hubby as he’s like Mikey and he’ll eat anything. ;). Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Thanks for that feedback JoAn — the coconut sugar sounds like it would go really well in this recipe 🙂
Hi
I have just recently been told to stay off gluten and as I love white chocolate chip cookies I am keen to try this out. Only yesterday I bought cashew butter and peanut butter – as I recalled reading your site but didn’t remember what kind of butter was needed.
More importantly, I do not like Macademia nuts. Can I just skip them? I prefer just having white chocolate chips in my cookies and nothing else
Thanks for the recipe
Hi Bushra — first of all, I have a bunch of flourless cookies on the site, here’s a link: http://theviewfromgreatisland.com/?s=flourless+cookies…some of them use cashew butter, and peanut butter. You can substitute any nut butter you like in these cookies, and leave out the macadamias. Good luck with your new diet.
Made these tonight for my husband (we both have Celiac) and they are DELICIOUS. Neither of us has had a white chocolate macadam nut cookie in years and were salivating at your photos. They were an amazing surprise.
At 13 mins cooking, ours were dark brown. Our perfect cook time only took 7.5 minutes and came out amazingly. Thank you so much!!
You are so welcome — all of my flourless nut butter cookies have amazed me, each time I didn’t quite believe that they would work, and they always come out fantastic, I just keep working my way through all the different types of nut butters!
Would I be able to use fresh all natural ground peanut butter for this? This sounds great, but I don’t have macadamia nut butter in my kitchen right now.
Yes you can Sher. I have lots of nut butter cookie recipes on the blog, and I’ve used just about every kind of nut butter with success!
Hi, my 3 yr old is allergic to eggs and flax seedCan i replace it with apple sauce ? Or any other suggestions?
I’m not sure, Suneetha, but it’s worth a try! You might also look at my shortbread cookies, which don’t use eggs at all. You can substitute the white chips and macadamias in one of those recipes.
Can I just use regular butter?
This recipe is formulated for the nut butter, Allison, and it won’t translate well if you substitute regular butter, sorry!
thanks for getting back to me in this. So I split the batch in half. Half exactly as the recipe reads came out perfect so delicious! And the other half I did with maple syrup substitute and baking powder to counter the liquid since you have to use 2-3x the amount of baking power over baking soda I think that did the trick. They also came out fabulous. More fluffy and light then crispy but both were equally as good. Just wish I used unsalted macadamia nuts for the butter ha.
Without the white chocolate chips (or perhaps substituting a dairy free version) these would also appear to be dairy free no? I’m not gluten or dairy free, but a friend is so I’d like to try these for her 🙂
Sounds delicious!
Have you tried the flourless nut butter cookies with nutella?
That’s my next experiment 🙂
These look amazing- it’s hard to believe there’s no flour or butter! Can’t wait to try them. My Daughter in law just asked me to send some gluten free cookies and I think these will be the ones. 🙂
I really think you need to make a cookbook with every kind of nut butter (flourless) cookie out there! Think of all the variations you could do. These are genius!