Recipe: White Chocolate Nutella Cookies

I love Nutella, adore Nutella. I can't get enough of the stuff. Ever since trying it eariler this year I have to have it, every night. It's the best of both worlds: chocolate and hazelnuts. It's like having your cake and eating it too. Usually when I eat my Nutella it's on a piece of white or wheat bread but I've been wanting to experiment with it for sometime now. I know it can be used in cooking/baking but, up until now, I haven't gotten a chance to use it...because I kept running out.

So, after buying a super-size jar of it, I decided it was finally time to give it a shot, in cookie-form. I scanned the Internet and various blogs until I found this recipe by The Biscuit Pusher. It was very tasty. Salty goodness. This is a delightful, light cookie. The texture of this cookie was unexpected, gritty almost. Chewy all in all. I recommend this one for sure, but only if you like the taste of Nutella. Obviously. It is a salty treat, maybe too salty for some. If you don't love salt as much as I do I would recommend cutting the salt by half. The cookie itself almost has a 'roasted' hazelnut flavor which is great. I did however add my own addition of white chocolate chips. Without these chips I'm certain that the flavor wouldn't be as sweet. I recommend either using white or milk chocolate along with this cookie. I would also like to say an addition of walnuts might have been nice too. Next time I will surely throw them in.

-1 1/4 cup: brown sugar, packed

-2 eggs

-1 teaspoon: vanilla extract

-1/4 teaspoon: baking powder

-1/2 teaspoon: baking soda

-1/2 teaspoon: salt

-3 cups: all-purpose flour

-1 cup: white chocolate chips

-1 cup: nuts (optional)

~Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a baking pan with tin foil, dull side facing up.~

In a large bowl sift together your dry mixture: flour/salt/baking soda/baking powder. In a second larger bowl cream together your brown sugar and butter-flavored shortening. Add your eggs and vanilla to the creamed mixture. Now gradually add in your sifted dry mix until fully combined. Stir in your add-ins before taking tablespoon-size balls of dough and placing them on your baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack before enjoying.

Much love,

Cat.