Hello there A Beautiful Mess readers, I'm Emma, Elsie's sister and the gal behind Food Coma. At Elsie's wedding last week I had the opportunity to try Nutella for the first time. Now I'm obsessed.
So I've been trying to dream up different ways to use this magical new-to-me spread and I thought that in between two cookies might be the perfect place for Nutella.
Along with on top of toast. Like, every morning.
You can enjoy these cookies in the late afternoon along with some coffee or in the evening with some milk while watching the latest episode of Glee. (That's right-I'm a Gleek, and I'm not sorry!)
Nutella Sandwich Cookies, makes 10-12.
Ingredients: 1/2 cup softened butter, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon (aluminum-free) baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt and plenty of Nutella.
Cream together the butter and sugars, stir in egg and vanilla. Now mix in flour, baking powder and salt until just combined. The batter should be crumbly and you will probably need to use your (clean) hands to combine it a bit more to form a dough ball. Cover in plastic wrap and place in the freezer for 20 minutes.
Now form into small round disks, about 2-3 inches in diameter and uniformly thick. You want your cookies to all sort of match each other in size because you will be placing one of top of another to form sandwich cookies. Bake at 350 F for 15-18 minutes, allow to cool completely on a cooling rack before adding filling. Once cool, spoon a couple of tablespoons of Nutella on one cookie and place another on top. Devour, and don't apologize.
xo. Emma
Now I know what I'll be baking once I get off work!
Posted by: Sara | May 24, 2011 at 02:34 PM
Delish. I lovelovelove Nutella.
Where do you girls find all these cute straws?!
Posted by: Kelsi | May 24, 2011 at 02:35 PM
nutella is so yummy. i love it with ritz and also with peanut butter. mmm.
Posted by: kat | May 24, 2011 at 02:38 PM
SOOOOOOOOOOO YUMMY!
love, polly
Posted by: the littlest polly | May 24, 2011 at 02:40 PM
Nutella is from italy! Nutella rocks!
Posted by: Maja | May 24, 2011 at 02:47 PM
mmmmm...nutella cookies :) we love nutella so much we even named one of our chickens after it. i'd love to try a toasted marshmallow nutella shake!
Posted by: dawn | May 24, 2011 at 03:21 PM
I just keep scrolling up and down between the 3 photos. Scrolling up.. scrolling down.. Mmmm.
Posted by: Amy - thePeachTree | May 24, 2011 at 04:17 PM
yummy! I might as well try these.
Posted by: Mae | May 24, 2011 at 04:20 PM
Ahahah! So happy you're in love with it! As an italian I can say that we enjoy it almost in everything such as bread, cookies or croissants...even if I usually taste it on my fingers ;)
Try this: Nutella tart...I bet you'll adore it!
xo
Posted by: Giorgia | May 24, 2011 at 04:23 PM
nutella is so good! lol i wanna make these!
Posted by: zee | May 24, 2011 at 04:26 PM
Last week I had the same revelation. I made some shortbread cookies with nutella in the middle. Brilliant. Yum!
Posted by: Susanne Evangelista | May 24, 2011 at 04:59 PM
Nutella has been feeding generations here in Greece (well before that we had Merenda which is local and just as good but Nutella grew sooooo big). It's our favorite topping for crepes (thin pancakes) either with crushed almond/biscuit (p'tit beurre kind) or banana bits... The latest one we call it Chocobanana. Either or Nutella is divine!
Posted by: Sophia | May 24, 2011 at 05:21 PM
They look lovely Emma, and the photos are beautiful too, great styling :)
Posted by: Emma | May 24, 2011 at 05:22 PM
YUM! I can't believe you just tried Nutella. You have years of catching up to do!
Posted by: Gina | May 24, 2011 at 05:22 PM
This looks too cute to it!! I have a feeling this post is going to get a lot of Pinning attention!
Posted by: Lindsay @Delighted Momma | May 24, 2011 at 05:29 PM
Hmm I love nutella
Posted by: J'Ann | May 24, 2011 at 05:35 PM
Nutella is the best! Thanks for the fabulous recipe, can't wait to try it.
Posted by: kristine | May 24, 2011 at 05:44 PM
would love to make these...they look so yummy!!! Is there a Vegan alternative to the ingredients?? Love Nutella...my husband is Italian so we've been eating it for years...so good!!
Posted by: Alicia | May 24, 2011 at 05:52 PM
These look so good! I have sworn off Nutella forever after having eaten it for 2 months straight on a backpacker's budget, but perhaps I will break that to make these. Random fact of the day: Nutella is to Europeans what peanut butter is to North Americans. It's almost impossible to find peanut butter overseas!
Posted by: Meagan | May 24, 2011 at 06:18 PM
these look Amazing!!!
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Posted by: gina | May 24, 2011 at 06:56 PM