Right around the holidays I bought a big ol’ bag of hazelnuts from Trader Joe’s. It was an impulse buy right before the checkout so I dumped the bag in the cart…besides it was hubby’s turn to pay for the groceries..mwuahaha.
I figured I’d make some hazelnut cookies as part of my Christmas cookie spread. Well that didn’t happen, mainly because I was too busy making other goodies (as shown here and here and here and here).
So this lonely bag-o-nuts has been gathering dust in the pantry until this weekend when I finally decided to go for it.
Hazelnut Cookies:
- Grind hazelnuts in a food processor or magic bullet until you have 2.5 cups of finely ground hazelnuts (nearly flour like — some chunks are A-OK). Set aside in a bowl.
- Beat 2 large eggs by hand in separate bowl
- Add 1 cup of granulated sugar, 1 heaping tsp vanilla extract, dash of cinnamon, and a dash of salt (<1/8 tsp)
- Mix well.
- Gradually add in your ground hazelnuts and continuously stir and incorporate
- Refrigerate dough for 8 hours (or overnight)
- Preheat oven to 325 deg and grease a baking sheet with PAM
- Round dough into balls using a melon baller or tsp. Note dough is fairly sticky.
- Bake for approx 11 minutes until top of cookie is very slightly firm to the touch
- Let cool on baking rack
Chocolate Dip:
- Pour ~3/4 cup of Nestle (or other) milk chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl
- Heat on high in micro for 30 seconds. Stir and heat for another 15 seconds.
- Add 1 tsp of instant coffee (I used Starbucks VIA cinnamon flavored). Stir.
- Heat for another 30-45 sec until mixture is smooth.
Once the cookies are completely cooled, dip half in the chocolate mixture and place on wax paper to harden. When all cookies have been dipped, place the wax paper on a cookie sheet and cool in fridge for 3 hours. Serve at room temp!
What’s your favorite nut? For an everyday nut, I’d say almonds, but for a special nut, pecans!
Do you have any ideas for Pumpkin Pie and Pistachio pudding mixes that have been sitting in my pantry for equally as long?
Must… Resist… hazelnuts are my favorite!!
Oh reeeaaally? Good to know
I can totally get behind chocolate dipped cookies. In any way.
I personally love macadamia nuts. They’re like butter.
Oh yes, macadamia nuts are awwweeesome!
Love hazelnuts, I can’t wait to try this. My wife will love them too!
Oh man do those look incredible! I love anything that has been dipped in chocolate! Thanks for sharing the recipe! I have canned pumpkin in my fridge taht I’m going to have to throw out bc I made myself sick of pumpkin !!
That’s blasphemy Erin — sick of pumpkin? Impossible!
I would go with pecans, too! If they weren’t so expensive, I promise you they would be in way more of my daily eats!
Ditto Amy
OMG…chocolate + hazelnut = heaven! Do these taste like Nutella cookies!?
A little big Meaghan
I love my almonds and walnuts. I actually told my husband yesterday that I felt like I was turning into a walmond since I’ve been eating so many this week! For a special nut I agree with you that I like pecans!
A walmond? hahahahaha
Looks delicious!! I actually just looked for hazelnuts at TJs this morning to make some cookies and they didn’t have any
Boo! Must be an Xmas time thing…
I love new recipes thanks for posting this. I enjoy reading your blog very much. Stop by and check out our recipes sometime.
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Haha- love the comment that it was the hubby’s turn to buy groceries
Those cookies look so decadent- they are something you would get a bakery- yum!!
My favorite nut is the cashew…I always pick them out of the mixed nut jars
Also love cashews Holly!
…and now I really want a tray of Christmas cookies. I love hazelnuts and just the very mention of these has sent me to a happy place.
Mmmm make a yellow cake and mix in the pistachio pudding. I bet it would be a moist masterpiece
Should I make the pudding or just include the mix Andrea?
Having been one of the recipients of these cookies I can attest to their utter deliciousness!
Yay! Glad you liked R
Yum!! These sound awesome.
Im a big pecan fan too, but I think my favorite are pine nuts. Probably because theyre so expensive and I rarely get to have them.
Pine nuts are great because they make pesto
Girl I love your blog but I’m going to have to start to avoid it for my waist-line’s sake. These look AMAZING!
Haha! Luckily I only post recipes 1-2 x’s a week Claire
I think my favorite all time nut is the brazil nut. I’m always that jerk that picks them out of the can of mixed nuts first.
Those cookies look fantastic!
I didn’t think anyone actually liked brazil nuts Megan
I love pecans do but I’m a sucker for those cocoa roasted almonds. I can’t go one day without them!
Love your cookies
Cocoa roasted almonds? Heck, sign me up!
I love the cinnamon almonds!! since today is opening day though maybe we should enjoy some peanuts (in the form of peanut butter of course!!)
I had a cookie today from trader joe’s that was a pistachio cookie! you should make pistachio pudding cookies
Cinnamon on anything rocks my world.
Pistachio cookies sound good!
Hmmm…I love all nuts except cashews. If I had to pick one, I’d say honey roasted peanuts.
HEY beautiful!!! ahhh these sound sooo good- please come cook for me! bake me tons of cookies
ive missed you..but im back now yay!
Those seriously sound so good. I want to eat them all up right now.
I love to snack on cashews, pistachios, and I would NEVER turn down anything honey roasted!
So I totally LOVE the flavor and scent of hazelnut, but I’ve never actually USED hazelnuts in baking before, haha! I need to get on that. These cookies sound GREAT!
I’m an almond fiend but if pistachios were cheaper they might win.
Very yummy I gotta say