Cream Cheese Peanut Cookies
2 hours 28 minutes
Cream cheese gives these peanut cookies a little more of a complex taste than usual. You can substitute macadamias for the peanuts if you like.
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Ingredients
Makes: 50 cookies
- 120g unsalted butter, softened
- 220g cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- zest of 1 lemon
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
- 1 1/2 cups plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup unsalted peanuts
- 120g white chocolate, chopped
- icing sugar, for dusting
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:8min ›
Extra time:2hours chilling ›
Ready in:2hours28min
- With an electric mixer beat the butter and cream cheese until creamy. Add sugar and beat until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in lemon zest and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour and baking powder and stir into the cream cheese mixture. Add the nuts and chopped chocolate. Chill the dough in the fridge 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Lightly butter two baking trays. Drop heaping spoonfuls of the dough on the trays about 5cm apart and bake until golden, about 8 minutes. Let cool on wire racks then dust with icing sugar.
