Nutella Shortbread Sandwich Cookies
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
-
16 sandwich cookies
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup hazelnuts
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3⁄4 cup cold salted butter, chopped into small pieces
- 6 1⁄2 ounces nutella (half of a 13 oz. jar)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°; grease two sheet pans or line them with Silpat.
- Toast and skin the hazelnuts; in a food processor, pulse the hazelnuts with the sugar until they are finely ground.
- Add in the flour and pulse again.
- Add in the chopped butter and process it until the mixture comes together; turn it out onto a work surface.
- Roll out to about 1/8 inch thickness; with any shape cookie cutter (author has used leaves, hearts, circles), cut out the shapes and transfer the cookies to the prepared sheet pans.
- Bake the cutouts for about 15 minutes, depending on their size and thickness; cool the cookies on the sheet pans.
- Spread the Nutella on one cookie and make a sandwich by topping the Nutella with another cookie.
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