Macadamia - Black Currant Sugar Cookies

Macadamia - Black Currant Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

• 2 ¼ cups All-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp Salt
• 1 ½ cup Sugar (and more for rolling dough)
• 2 oz Cream cheese
• 11 Tbsp Unsalted butter, melted and still warm
• 1 large Egg
• 2 Tbsp Milk
• 6 beans Vanilla beans, split and scraped
• ½ tsp Lemon zest
• ½ cup Macadamia nuts, coarsely ground
• 8 oz Dried black currants

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350, line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Melt butter, add sugar, cream cheese, and lemon zest, mix thoroughly. Grind macadamia nuts with vanilla beans (vanilla extract won’t give good flavor for this!), then add to the butter, as well as adding egg and milk. Stir in the dried black currants, mixing just enough to distribute the currants into the dough. Add dough to the flour mix. Use a teaspoon of dough per cookie, form into a ball, roll in sugar until coated, then flatten onto the parchment paper. Bake until edges turn slightly brown (10-15 minutes), remove, let cool and serve.