Perfect soft and chewy cookies, packed with white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts, these cookies are just like Subway cookies... but even better as you know exactly what is in them!
Who doesn't love a subway cookie!!! They have mastered the perfect mix between crunch and chew! Firm enough to stay together but soft enough to melt into your mouth.
I shared a double chocolate chip subway cookie recipe about a year ago. They are still my boys favourite! But subway do so many other delicious flavours! White chocolate and macadamia nut cookies being my favourite (although the raspberry and white chocolate one is a very close second!)
The double chocolate chip cookies took me a couple of attempts to get right, so when I set about making my favourite white chocolate and macadamia nut subway style cookies I thought I'd nail it in a couple of tries.
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Ha!!!! I made so many delicious white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies, but after 4 attempts I still hadn't made ones I left worthy of the title subway style cookies. I did a final tweak and 5th time lucky!!!
I was a very popular lady that week!!! I think everyone I know got to try those cookies, I'm not entirely sure where each batch went. Except that final batch, that went to the group of Mums that I was on a business course with. That box didn't last long!
These cookies look pretty unassuming, but they are so so delicious! They are definitely what I call subway style cookies.
Enjoy x
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White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Subway Style Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup macadamia nuts
- 1 stick softened butter
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour (plain flour)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 175ºC/350ºF.
- Roughly chop the macadamia nuts and set aside.
- Put the softened butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar into the bowl of your stand mixer. Beat them together until the mixture is ighter and everything is well combined. (about 3 minutes)
- Add the vanilla extract and the egg, then beat once more until everything is creamy and even lighter in colour. (This takes about 3-4 minutes)
- Add in the flour, salt and baking soda, then mix until the flour is just combined.
- Tip in the the white chocolate chips and the chopped macadamia nuts into the mixture.
- Then mix until everything is combined.
- Roll golf ball sized balls of dough and place them onto a baking sheet lined with cooking paper. Ensure they are 5cm (2 inches) apart
- Bake for 10 minutes until lightly golden. (They will be soft when you take them from the oven!)
- Carefully transfer the cooking paper to a cooling rack, then use a spoon to gently flatten the still soft cookies.
- Leave the cookies to cool.
Nutrition
Nutrition is per serving
Steph says
Amazing!!! I’ve never been able to crack the subway recipe and here it is right here. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Kayleigh says
Can you freeze any left over dough?
Claire McEwen says
You certainly can. Just make sure it is wrapped up nice and tight.
Cx
Kim Doyle says
These cookies are wonderful. Thank you
winnie says
when the cookies are taken out of the oven, should they still be golf ball shaped? they taste great though
Claire McEwen says
Hi Winnie,
they should have flattened more than that. Sometimes it can be because the flour ratio is a little out (which happens when we use cups to measure the flour)
You can use the back of a spoon to flatten the cookie and also dropping the tray of baked cookies onto a flat surface can help too.
Cx
Gabriela Morales says
Decided to follow this recipe, and everything smelled delicious, but the cookies didn’t even spread at all. I had to flatten them and added 5 more minutes because it wasn’t completely done.
Claire McEwen says
Hi Gabriela,
I suspect the cookie may have had too much flour in them.
This can happen when using cup measurements.
I find if I drop the tray on a flat surface a few times that can help them flatten. or use the back of a spoon.
Hope that helps
🙂
Cx
Abir Karimbux says
Absolutely amazing recipe... the cookies taste delicious.
Elena says
Hi! Do you use salted macadamia nuts?
Claire McEwen says
Hi Elena,
I usually buy unsalted macadamia nuts, but I have just trialed a peanut and choc chip cookie recipe (using this recipe as a base) and the salted peanuts worked really well. So I think if salted macadamia is what you have then the cookies could definitely still work.
Hope that helps 🙂
Cx
Anna says
Followed the recipe step by step. Ended up with a melted mess instead of cookies. Absolutely do not recommend. Either the recipe is messed up, or the website's conversion to grams is wrong.
Claire McEwen says
I am so sorry to hear that Anna, I will definitely look at the grams conversion tool, as it is a recipe that my kids make a lot, so it is very well tested.
Sabina says
Hey☺️ how many grams is one stick of butter? I'm from Germany and i just want to be sure. I will try it on the weekend.
Claire McEwen says
Hi Sabina,
1 stick of butter is 115g of butter.
Hope that helps
Cx
Kylie says
We made these today and delicious and soft and chewy! Taste is spot on, though ours turned out a bit thicker (and smaller in circumference) than a regular Subway cookie after ten mins in oven. Any ideas?
Claire McEwen says
Hi Kylie,
So pleased you enjoyed them 🙂
Did you use a spoon to push the cookies flat once they came out of the oven (step 11)
The short cooking time is the best way I have found to keep them soft and chewy in the middle, so they do need to be pushed flat after cooking. I find if I flatten them before cooking that they end up too crispy.
Hope that helps 🙂
Cx
Naomi says
Hi, I’m going to try making these, just a question - do you leave them in a golf ball shape to bake or do you flatten them slightly?
Claire McEwen says
Hi Naomi, you leave them as golf ball shapes as they spread in the oven, then when they come out of the oven use a spoon to flatten them 🙂
Hope that helps 🙂
Cx
GG says
Hi 🙂
Can I just check whether it should still be 175 degrees for a fan oven too?
Claire McEwen says
I would reduce the oven to 160ºC for a fan oven 🙂
Cx