Hazelnut Chocolate Cookies

Name: Hazelnut Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, softened; 6 tablespoons sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3/4 cup cake flour; 1/4 cup baking cocoa; 3/4 cup ground hazelnuts (about 3 ounces); 24 whole hazelnuts, toasted and skins removed; Confectioners' sugar

8 ingredients

4 steps

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
6 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup cake flour
1/4 cup baking cocoa
3/4 cup ground hazelnuts (about 3 ounces)
24 whole hazelnuts, toasted and skins removed
Confectioners' sugar

Directions

1

Preheat oven to 325°. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour and cocoa; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in ground hazelnuts.
2

Shape dough into twenty-four 1-in. balls; place 2 in. apart on ungreased
3

. Press a whole hazelnut onto the center of each.
4

Bake cookies 15-19 minutes or until firm to the touch. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Dust cookies with confectioners' sugar.