Valentine’s Cookies with Chocolate-Hazelnut Filling

Ingredients

• 230 g unsalted butter (at room temperature, softened)
• 130 g fine sugar
• 2 egg yolks (at room temperature)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 0.25 tsp salt
• 290 g all-purpose flour
• 0.5 cup chocolate-hazelnut spread (The author used Bonne Maman Noisette; approximately 1/2 tsp per cookie)

Steps

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 175 °C.

2. 2

   Mix the softened butter with the sugar until fully combined.

3. 3

   Add the egg yolks, vanilla extract, and salt. Mix until smooth.

4. 4

   Add the flour and mix until a dough forms.

5. 5

   Divide the dough into 22 portions and roll each into a ball.

6. 6

   Flatten the dough balls. Using your thumb or the handle of a large wooden spoon, make a heart-shaped indentation in each piece of dough.

7. 7

   Place approximately 1/2 tsp of chocolate-hazelnut spread into the indentation of each cookie.

8. 8

   Bake the cookies for 13–14 minutes.

Notes

The source does not specify whether the shaped cookies should be chilled before baking; this step was not added.

Nutrition per serving

• dessert
• cookies
• baking
• Valentine’s Day
• chocolate-hazelnut spread
• shortbread cookies
• for a festive table