12 Days of Christmas Cookies – Day 6: Chocolate Hazelnut Sandwiches
Posted by limpetfan | Posted in 12 Days of Christmas Cookies, Cooking | Posted on 20-12-2009-05-2008
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I don’t usually make sugar cookies. I usually leave that to my mother. I don’t have the patience for rolling out the dough and cutting out shapes or any of the other fun stuff you have to do when you make sugar cookies. But then I found this recipe for Chocolate Hazelnut Sandwiches in the December issue of Real Simple magazine and I decided the sugar cookie boycott had come to an end. How could I NOT make cookies that involved Nutella?!
Chocolate Hazelnut Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling cookies
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature)
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups Nutella spread
confectioner’s sugar for sprinkling
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. Using an electric mixer, beat together butter and sugar until smooth. Add the egg and beat until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the vanilla. With the mixer on low, gradually add in the flour mixture. Shape into a disk and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, wrapped. Remove from the wrap and roll the dough out to 1/4-inch thickness and cut into your desired shape with a cookie cutter. Bake 12-15 minutes at 350 degrees F on parchment paper-lined cookie sheets. Allow the cookies to cool, then spoon Nutella into the middle of one cookie and place another on top to form a sandwich. Sprinkle sandwiched cookies with confectioner’s sugar.
I followed the recipe exactly to make the dough, then refrigerated my wrapped ball for around 2 hours.
When it was ready, I rolled the dough out and used my holiday cookie cutters to shape the cookies. Make sure you make an even number of shapes so you have 2 sides for each sandwich!
Then the cookies went into the oven and cooked until golden brown – for the most part. Because I’m not a very accomplished dough-roller, some of the cookies were thinner than others, and those ones got a little browner than the others. Nothing burned though.
Then it was time for the fun part – adding the Nutella. I used a teaspoon to put about a teaspoon full of the spread into the center of each cookies. Then I pressed a second cookie on top of the Nutella to form the cookie sandwich. When the cookies were done I dusted them with confectioner’s sugar to make them look festive.
If you’ve missed the first 5 days of my 12 Days of Christmas Cookies series, you can click here to check out the other posts. Stayed tuned for Day 6: CAKE BALLS!
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Just by the pure fact that there is so much baking going on here AND you are using Nutella in cookies means we will be great friends! Congrats and welcome to the Weddzilla team! Looking forward to following along on your journey! And the baking!
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Thank you so much – looking forward to it, too!