Nutella-Stuffed Chocolate Linzer Cookies
These Nutella-Stuffed Chocolate Linzer Cookies are wonderfully soft and chocolatey, and so scrumptious, that everyone will love them. They are very easy to make with just a few ingredients, and perfect to munch on during the festive season, but also all year round. You can use any cookie cutter of your choice to make them seasonal, so you can tweak them to your liking. Rich, indulgent, a lovely homemade treat!
Servings: 20 cookies
Calories: 148kcal
Ingredients
- 320 g plain flour ( 2 ½ cup)
- 160 g butter (⅔ cups)
- 100 g icing sugar ( + 1 tablespoon for dusting)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 30 g cocoa powder ( 2 tbsp)
- 1 whole egg
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 jar nutella (350 g, 1 ½ cup)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Sift the flour in a large mixing bowl, add the cold butter cut into cubes, and use your fingertips to rub the butter and flour together until they resemble breadcrumbs.
- Sift in the icing sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder, and mix everything together.
- Add the eggs and vanilla extract and knead everything well to get a dough that does not stick to the hands.
- Cover the dough in clingfilm and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 Fahrenheit).
- Roll out the dough using a rolling pin, and use festive cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
- For each shape, cut out another one that looks the same, but use a small round cookie cutter to cut out a circle in the middle of the shape, they will be sandwiched together later on.
- Rework the dough until it's used up.
- Arrange the cookies on baking trays lined with non-stick paper, and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove the trays from the oven and allow the cookies to cool down completely.
- Spread nutella on the cookies that do not have holes in the middle, then top them with the cookies that have a circle in the middle.
- Dust the cookies with icing sugar.
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Notes
- Make sure the cookies have cooled down completely before stuffing them, otherwise the nutella will become too runny and make a mess.
- You can use different cookie cutters for the cookie base, just make sure they are all of a similar size, so the cookies can bake evenly and at the same time. A smaller cookie will bake quicker, while a larger one will be too soft at the end of the baking time.
Nutrition
Calories: 148kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 56mg | Potassium: 68mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 238IU | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1mg