Recipe by Efrat Libfroind

Chocolate Chunk Hazelnut Butter Cookies

Dairy Dairy
Easy Easy
10 Servings
Allergens

Ingredients

Dough

  • 5/8 cup + 1/2 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened

  • 1 and 1/3 cups light brown sugar or demerara sugar

  • 3 tablespoons sugar

  • 1/4 teaspoon Haddar Kosher Salt

  • 1 egg

Filling

  • 3 and 1/2 ounces (100 grams) Geneve White or dark chocolate, melted

Garnish

  • roasted hazelnuts, halved

  • sea salt

Directions

Prepare the Filling

1.

To prepare the filling, process the hazelnuts in a food processor for a few minutes, until you have a paste-like nut butter. Add oil and continue processing for another minute. Pour melted chocolate into the food processor. Process for another few seconds until the mixture is smooth.

2.

Pour the mixture into a silicone baking mold with one-and-a-half-inch (three-to-four-centimeter) depressions or into an ice cube tray and freeze for three hours, then release from molds.

Prepare the Dough

1.

To prepare the dough, mix all ingredients into a soft dough and refrigerate for one to two hours.

Form and Bake the Cookies

1.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (175 degrees Celsius).

2.

Remove the dough from the refrigerator. For medium cookies, divide the dough into 20 pieces; for large ones, divide it into 10. Flatten each piece of dough into a circle. Put a frozen hazelnut butter circle on top and roll it into a ball.

3.

For perfectly round cookies, place the cookie balls inside metal cookie cutters or in a muffin pan and bake for about five minutes. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with the halved hazelnuts and salt. Return to the oven for another eight to 12 minutes (depending on the size of the cookies), until they begin to brown and get crispy on the edges but are still a bit soft inside.

4.

Cool and store at room temperature for up to four days. These cookies can be stored in the freezer for up to two months.

Tips:

To save time, the hazelnut butter can be made and frozen up to three months in advance.

Credits

Styling and Photography by Shoshi Sirkis

Chocolate Chunk Hazelnut Butter Cookies

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