It’s been a long while since our last food-related post, hasn’t it? There’s a lot of reasons for that, but I’m doing my best to get back in the baking/cooking swing of things.
We had bought all* the ingredients after watching the episode back in September, hoping to make them that week for a trip, but various circumstances both before and after said trip ended up delaying things quite a bit. We weren’t able to find Macadamia Nut Butter so we ended up using Peanut Butter instead, but hopefully we can eventually try the recipe with the proper nut butter.
The recipe is fairly simple and the idea of it was for a quick, easy, and healthy snack (though, not necessarily the cheapest– macadamia nuts are the most expensive nuts in the world after all, well, unless you live in Hawaii). I’m not much of a snack person usually, but sometimes I can be and I always enjoy the sweet/salty combo and the flavors were up both my husband’s and my alleys, so we figured, why not give it a try?
I think our biggest worries were:
-How long it could take the ingredients to combine, especially mixing manually.
-How much would stick to the bowl/how annoying would the bowl to be clean
-How the dough would feel as we rolled it by hands
And every single worry was actually alleviated. Mixing went very well– it didn’t take long at all and barely anything stuck to the bowl (and what did was very easy to remove with our hands).
There was nothing sticky left in the bowl and even the dough itself was actually fine to touch? It didn’t stick to our hands, it rolled perfectly, and it didn’t give me that usually iffy feeling I tend to have when mixing anything by hand. As someone who can be kind of sensitive to certain hand sensations, I was really worried and my husband thankfully offered to take up the rolling job, but it was actually fine for both of us, much to our surprise.
It didn’t take long at all to roll them out and we ended up with quite a bit.
And with how easily everything mixed together, we were able to clean it in no time as well after we finished. With the Macadamia Nut Balls placed in the fridge, it was now just time to wait for them to cool.
Finally, time had passed and they were all set:
I would say they definitely taste good, but are a bit salty and dense (I suppose that’s part of keeping it filling) which is likely due to needing to use peanut butter. It makes me want to try and make this again with macadamia nut butter even more. I think if we make these again, other adjustments I may do is add a few more macadamia nuts (or at least chopping them up or cutting them in half so they’re spread more) and maybe also add some dark chocolate chips which I think could balance the flavor really well.
Either way, pretty tasty and genuinely super easy to make. Really happy we tried them out!