Today is my big sister’s birthday! (Happy Birthday Saema!) I can’t share birthday cake with her this year because she moved out to Los Angeles but I dedicate this recipe to her because homegirl loves her Nutella!
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter (make sure it’s at room temperature)
- 3/4 cup of brown sugar
- 3/4 cup of white sugar
- 1 cup of Nutella
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp of baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- About a 1/2 cup of chopped hazelnuts
1. In a large bowl, mix together your butter, two types of sugar, and nutella until it is completely creamy!
2. In a separate bowl whisk your eggs with the vanilla. Then add them into the large bowl and mix into the butter mixture.
3. In another separate bowl, mix together your flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda, baking powder. Combine into the butter mixture.
4. Chop up your hazelnuts! [Ed. Note: I first tried doing it in my food chopper but the nuts just crumbled so I ended up using a good knife and doing it on a cutting board]. Fold them into the mixture!
5. Now this part is important. Refrigerate your cookie dough for at least 3 hours. This recipe makes about six dozen cookies so you could even split it up into batches and freeze some of it.
6. Heat your oven to 325 degrees. Place tablespoon size scoops of cookie dough on a baking pan lined with non-stick foil.
7. Pop it in the oven and bake for about 10-12 minutes.
[Ed. Note: My first batch came out a little flat because I didn’t follow my own directions and refrigerated the dough for only an hour or so. Learn from my mistakes! But the later batches were totally fine and fluffy!]
So Happy Birthday Sister! I will be eating these cookies and thinking of you! Also, I’m really sorry about that time when I was five and called you Dracula and then you started crying. I still feel really bad about that. I hope you can forgive me!
Makes 6 dozen cookies.
Bake What Your Mama Gave Ya! 