Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter and flour cookie sheet.

In large bowl, cream together butter and sugars. Stir in peanut butter and macadamia nuts; mix until well blended. Add eggs, vanilla and Tabasco pepper sauce. Mix until well combined.

In another bowl, mix together flour, salt and baking soda. Add to nut mixture and stir until blended.

Spoon about one heaping tablespoon of batter on prepared cookie sheet. Coat tines of fork in flour and score each cookie in crisscross pattern. Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until edges begin to turn golden. Set aside to cool on racks.

This recipe yields 2 dozen cookies.

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