Recently I signed up for a cookie swap hosted by Julie from White Lights on Wednesday and some other great blogging gals. I was super excited to send out my cookie recipe and receive a cookie recipe from another gal. I received a cookie recipe from Shary who blogs over at Shary Loves You. I’ll admit, I was a little worried when I received my recipe: Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies. Why was I so worried? Everyone RAVES about Nutella. Well, I had never had Nutella until the day I made the cookies. I quickly got over my worries and excitement took over me. I was going to bake a new recipe using an ingredient I had never even tasted before!
When I opened that jar of Nutella I had to have a taste. BAM! It was love at first bite. Nutella. Is. Awesome. So are these cookies. I took them to work and had six recipe requests from my fellow co-workers. Of course I shared the recipe with them. Sharing the cookie wealth is something that one should never skimp on. Especially when the cookies taste as FANTASTIC as these cookies do. Now I made a couple of changes to the recipe – I used white chocolate chips instead of semi-sweet chips (a chocolate cookie deserves white chocolate chips, IMO) and I reduced the amount of cinnamon in the recipe. I felt that 1tsp was a little much so I only used 1/4 tsp. I hope you enjoy this fantastic recipe…the recipe that’s like magic. It makes cookies disappear in an instant!
Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1 1/3 C all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 unsalted butter, room temp
- 2/3 C granulated sugar
- 1/3 C light brown sugar
- 2/3 cup nutella
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg, room temp
- 1/2 C white chocolate chips
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt with a mixer.
- In another larger mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars. Mix in the nutella and vanilla extract and then mix in the egg.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until well incorporated.
- Fold in the white chocolate chips.
- Chill for an hour in the fridge or for about 20 minutes in the freezer.
- Drop tablespoons of dough onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet placing about 2 inches apart. Roll each drop of dough into a ball in order to produce perfectly round cookies.
- Bake at 350 for 10-11 minutes. Remove from heat and cool on a cooling rack. I just put the pan on top of the rack to allow the pan and cookies to cool.
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I feel like I had Nutella once, in high school. It's definitely time for me to try it again. These look great
Oh yum! I told you you would love Nutella.
I may have to add these to my holiday cookie baking list.
Looks good and great pictures!!!
Miam, miam as we say in French! I try not to buy Nutella because I eat this so much. Last time, I went to Galerie Lafayette, a famous French department store, I saw that they were selling the Christmas Five kilo jar ( 5 kg is about 9 or 10 pounds!)… But this time, I resisted, I didn't buy it! Lol
I saw that you're in WordPress now so I subscribe via email to your blog!
Cheers
How have you lived without trying Nuetella? Oh man, these cookies look delicious!
How you've gone this long without Nutella in your life is beyond me. I'm glad I pushed you to try it out! Now your life is complete
I use white chocolate chips sometimes too, but I feel like in a recipe swap you should send the original so the chef can tweak it to his or her needs.)
Julie welcome to the world of Nutella… there is no turning back and by how delicious your cookies look you won't want to. Thanks for sharing them on foodie friday.
These sound absolutely amazing!
Definitely would like to try these… Am I overlooking how many cookies this recipe makes?