Nutella Cookies

So We Love Nutella and so I thought it would be awesome to find a cookie recipe that had nutella in it and this recipe had a few good ratings but man was it bad! Even the hubby didn't care for it all and he loves just about anything and everything I bake for him! Maybe it will be something you like and this will prob get added to the not so good recipes here in the near future!

**Maybe there was something wrong with our taste buds but I sent them all to work with the hubby the next day and he said they were soooo good and so did all his co workers. Hmmm...maybe I'll have to try them again!!**
Thick and Chewy Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

• 2 1/8 cups all-purpose flour (2 cups plus 2 tablespoons)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled until warm
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup nutella
• 1 large egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup choppedwalnuts or 1 cup pecans

1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Line a 20 x 14 baking sheet without sides with parchment paper.

2. Mix flour, salt and baking soda together in a medium sized bowl. Set aside.

3. With electric mixer, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Mix in Nutella, egg, yolk and vanilla extract. Add dry ingredients; mix until just combined. Stir in chips.

4. Form 1/4 cup dough into ball. Holding ball using fingertips of both hands, pull into two equal halves. Rotate halves 90 degrees and with jagged surfaces exposed, join halves together at their base, again forming a single cookie, being careful not to smooth dough's uneven surface. Place formed dough onto sheet, about nine balls per sheet. (Smaller cookie sheets can be used but fewer cookies can be baked at one time and the time may need to be adjusted).

5. Bake until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden, yet centers are still soft and puffy, 15 to 18 minutes (start checking at 13 minutes). (Frozen dough requires an extra 1 to 2 minutes baking time.) Cool cookies on sheets. Store in an airtight container.

6. NOTE: I used a large cookie scoop to portion out the dough instead of shaping it by hand as described above. The cookies came out a little smaller than the giant 1/4 cup size, but they still looked great. They will deflate a little as they cool so keep that in mind when determining baking time. I baked mine for the full 18 minutes, or just until the centers were soft but not squishy. The cookie scoop method yielded 17 large cookies.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I got this recipe from my friend Jennifer (I think she has like two million chocolate chip cookie recipes!) and I finally made them for my hubby. He LOVED them and ate almost the whole batch himself (ok so I gave a dozen or two away and ate some myself but he definitely ate a ton of them). They have a bit more butter and sugar in them which prob makes them all that much better! She has another recipe that I want to get from her that is even better than this one in my opinion and when I get it I'll post it as well!

Chocolate Chip Cookie

1 1/4 c sugar

1 1/4 c firmly packed brown sugar
1 1/4 c butter, softened
2 tsps vanilla
4 1/4 c flour
3 eggs
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 pkg chocolate chips

In a large bowl beat sugars and butter til fluffy

Add vanilla and eggs; blend

Add flour, soda, and salt; blend

Stir in chocolate chips

Bake at 375 degrees on an ungreased cookie sheet for 8-10 mins.