Stuffed Nutella Cookies

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg

• Condiments

  • 3/4 cup Nutella

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 cup All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 cup Brown sugar
  • 1 Pinch Salt

• Dairy

  • 1/2 cup 1 stick butter
  • 1 tbsp Heavy cream

Found on afamilyfeast.com

Ingredients

• 1 cup whole hazelnuts (if buying chopped, then only measure out ¾ cup).
• ½ cup Nutella (see our Homemade Nutella recipe here)
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• Pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), softened
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• ¼ cup Nutella
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Pour hazelnuts onto a sheet tray and toast for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and shake and roll to remove skins. Turn off oven. Alternatively you can place them in a dry sauté pan over medium high heat and toast to remove skins.
• Place peeled hazelnuts into a food processor and pulse to a crumb. Not fine but small pieces.
• Mix ¼ cup of the toasted hazelnut crumbs with the ½ cup of Nutella.
• Line a sheet tray with parchment and divide the mixture into 24 little mounds using two teaspoons. Place in freezer to harden.
• In a small bowl, sift flour, salt and baking powder. Set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter with a paddle for about 30 seconds.
• Add sugar and beat to combine.
• Scrape bowl, add whole egg and beat to combine.
• Add the flour mixture, and remaining chopped hazelnuts, and beat on low to combine.
• Place the dough on your counter or cutting board and roll to a log 18 inches long. (Or two 9 inch logs).
• Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for one hour.
• After one hour, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place rack in the top one third of your oven.
• Cut the log into 48 equal slices. If you wrapped dough into two smaller logs, cut each into 24.
• On your cutting board or counter, press 24 circles flat using your thumb.
• Remove Nutella mixture from freezer and place one mound onto each flattened circle.
• Note: The cookies bake 12 per pan so keep half the Nutella in the freezer to stay hard while you work on the first pan.
• Take the remaining 24 cuts and flatten with your fingers and press one over each mound, sealing the edges with your fingers. (I found that keeping my fingers wet stopped the dough from sticking to my hands)
• Line two sheet trays with parchment and using a spatula, lift each stuffed cookie from the counter to the pan, 12 per pan.
• Bake for 16-18 minutes or until golden on top with the bottoms slightly browned.
• Remove from oven, then slide the parchment onto a cooling rack and cool completely before removing from the parchment.
• Repeat for the second pan.
• Once cool, mix the remaining ¼ cup of Nutella with the cream and place in a small pastry bag with the tip cut off and drizzle over the tops of the cookies.
• Hard to tell how long these will last because they were eaten in one afternoon. But Im guessing if you store them in an airtight container, they will be fine for a few days.