Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies Recipe
This Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies Recipe is made with ground hazelnuts and stuffed with chocolate hazelnut filling, though you can easily stuff them with your favorite jam filling too. They're easy to make, fun to eat, and sure to become a new favorite sandwich cookie recipe!
Ingredients
- 1 cup ground hazelnuts (about 1 1/2 cups to 2 cups whole hazelnuts)
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour + more for flouring the work surface
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter softened
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup chocolate hazelnut spread
- icing sugar aka confectioner's sugar, for dusting
Instructions
- Place the whole hazelnuts in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until finely ground. You should end up with 1 cup of ground hazelnuts. [Note: you do not want small pieces of hazelnut in the cookies so you are aiming for a hazelnut meal that is finely ground.]
- In a large bowl, mix flour, ground hazelnuts, and salt. Set the flour mixture aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer (or using a hand mixer), cream butter and sugar with medium speed for a couple of minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract to the butter mixture and blend until combined.
- With the mixer running on low speed, slowly add the dry ingredients until combined.
- Divide the cookie dough in half and place each half in plastic food wrap, shaping the dough into 1 inch thick disks. Wrap them up in the plastic food wrap and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until the dough is chilled and firm.
- Preheat oven to 350F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.*
- Working with one disk at a time, remove the plastic wrap from the dough disk and transfer it to a floured surface. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the cookie shapes and transfer them to the parchment lined cookie sheet. [Note: for one of the dough disks, I cut out full circles and for the second dough disk, I cut out the circles with the cut-out "windows" in them. This way you have the correct amount of cookie sandwiches to put together.] Leftover dough scraps can be re-rolled to make more cookies.**
- If the dough becomes soft while working with it, pop the entire baking tray into the fridge to set it up again. [Chilled dough will prevent the cookies from spreading and losing their shape.]
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden brown on the edges. Remove from the oven and let them cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet. Then transfer them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- Place the cookies with the cut-out windows back on a baking sheet and dust them lightly with powdered sugar.
- To assemble the cookies, place the chocolate hazelnut spread into a piping bag. Squeeze a dollop of the spread onto a cookie (a solid cookie, not the cookies with the cut-out windows). Then gently place a cut-out cookie on top to form the cookie sandwich. Be gentle when pressing down so as not to squeeze the filling out of the window. Repeat with all of the remaining cookies.
Notes
*Note: You will likely bake more than 2 trays of cookies. Once a cookie tray has cooled, you can re-use it to bake additional cookies.
**Note: Leftover dough scraps can be re-rolled to make more cookies. Additionally, the center cut outs from each cookie can also be baked and enjoyed as bite sized treats!
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Nutrition
Calories: 176kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 2gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 22mgSodium: 74mgPotassium: 46mgFiber: 1gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 198IUVitamin C: 0.2mgCalcium: 18mgIron: 1mg
The nutritional information provided is based on third-party calculations and is an estimate only. Accurate nutritional facts will vary based on the particular brands used, portion sizes, measurement accuracy and more.
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