Nutella Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup hazelnuts
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup cold salted butter, chopped into small pieces
• 6 1/2 ounces nutella (half of a 13 oz. jar)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°; grease two sheet pans or line them with silpat.
• 2 toast and skin the hazelnuts; in a food processor, pulse the hazelnuts with the sugar until they are finely ground.
• 3 add in the flour and pulse again.
• 4 add in the chopped butter and process it until the mixture comes together; turn it out onto a work surface.
• 5 roll out to about 1/8 inch thickness; with any shape cookie cutter (author has used leaves, hearts, circles), cut out the shapes and transfer the cookies to the prepared sheet pans.
• 6 bake the cutouts for about 15 minutes, depending on their size and thickness; cool the cookies on the sheet pans.
• 7 spread the nutella on one cookie and make a sandwich by topping the nutella with another cookie.