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Nutella Pocket Cookies... Nutella Dreams

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Nutella Pocket Cookies...  or Nutella "Dreams".  It's been quite some fourth dimension since my terminal post. I've been quite busy... but I idea to halt past times a chip as well as post a few novel recipes. 

Every twelvemonth almost this time, I bake cookies for our annual church building youth weekend retreat. And I've made it a habit to post some of the recipes I bake hither on my blog. Normally inward my baking frenzy, I don't accept step-by-step pictures... as well as thence the recipes I'll last posting volition most probable simply induce got the directions without the green step-by-step photos. Maybe 1 or 2 volition induce got  a few photos for clarification, but for the most part, the directions should suffice. 

It's a chip awkward for me equally good non to include the step-by-step photos:)... equally I'm as well as thence used to a ton of photos attached to a unmarried recipe... but deport amongst me spell I post these cookie recipes inward the close future. Hopefully you'll last inspired to brand 1 or two... why, amongst Christmas approximately the corner the cookie recipes powerfulness come upwards inward handy:). 

In whatsoever case, hither is the first... inward a serial of cookies. This item cookie was a  personal favorite of my husband... who tends to sample the cookies...just to brand certain they are all right:). Hope you lot enjoy...

You volition need: adapted from Mrs. Fields Cookie Book

Cookie:
3/4 loving cup butter, softened
1/2 loving cup icing sugar
1/4 loving cup lite brownish sugar, packed
2 large egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla extract, or a chip more:)
1 1/2 cups all utilisation flour
pinch of salt

Filling:  
Note: You tin dismiss utilisation a chocolate ganache filling instead if you lot like

Nutella, equally needed ... almost 1 slightly rounded teaspoon per cookie

Topping :

icing sugar

Directions: 
1. In a bowl of an electrical mixer cream butter on medium speed almost a infinitesimal or so.
2. Add icing sugar, brownish saccharide as well as pinch of salt; crunch till smooth.
3. Add yolks as well as vanilla as well as mix till lite as well as fluffy using medium speed. Scrape bowl equally needed
4. Add flour as well as and blend until thoroughly combined. 
5. Remove dough, cast into a ball as well as flatten into a disc.
6. Refrigerate for 1+ hours. I left mine overnight.

Prepare Filling:
1. If making chocolate ganache, laid upwards spell dough is chilling. Scald 1/2 loving cup cream as well as add together 1 loving cup chocolate chips, combine as well as laid aside to thicken as well as cool) 
2. If using nutella, house inward refrigerator to harden a chip as well as thence that it volition last a chip easier to scoop teaspoons unto the cookie.  

Bake Cookies:
  • Preheat oven to 325 deg F
  • Line cookie canvass amongst parchment paper.
1. Remove cookie dough from fridge... if dough has been sitting inward refrigerator overnight or longer than an lx minutes allow to soften a chip earlier proceeding amongst recipe. Otherwise, the dough volition crack.
2. Flour counter exceed as well as rolling pin. Using the floured rolling pin, ringlet dough to almost 1/4 inch  thick. 
3. Cut circles amongst a 2 inch circular cookie cutter(you tin dismiss equally good brand them a chip larger or smaller depending on preference, simply adjust baking time).
4. Place cookie circles onto parchment lined cookie sheet. Continue amongst residuum of dough, using all scraps, until dough is used up.
5. Place 1 teaspoon of nutella(or ganache) inward oculus of cookie circle as well as exceed amongst some other circle. 
6. Completely seal the edges of the cookie amongst the tines of a fork. 
7. Bake until cookies are lightly golden brownish approximately the edges, beingness careful non to burn... this tin dismiss accept anywhere from 10-15 minutes, depending on the thickness as well as size of the cookies. Just maintain an oculus on them...
8. Remove from oven as well as allow to cool. Sprinkle amongst icing sugar, if desired... or you lot tin dismiss last creative as well as drizzle chocolate over the top.