Nutella-Stuffed, Sea-Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sweet Treats

Three words: milk and cookies...

Three more words: salty and sweet...

My favorite combinations.

What happens when you blend all this deliciousness together? Nutella-Stuffed, Sea-Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies...

Thanks for the  crack  cookies, Ambitious Kitchen.

When my mom visited NYC last month, we baked cookies for my brother (and the rest of the Brown soccer team). These weren't just any cookies, but rather the perfect blend of chewy chocolate, creamy nutella, and crunchy salt.

Cookie-ngredients:

• 2 & 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 & 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 & 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
• 1 & 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon plain greek yogurt
• 1 & 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 jar Nutella, chilled
• Coarse sea salt

Recipe:

-Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Set aside.

-Melt butter in a saucepan. The butter will start to foam - make sure you whisk consistently. Butter will begin to brown, continue whisking and remove from heat and immediately transfer butter to a bowl to prevent burning. Set aside.

-If you have an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugars until blended. Then beat in the egg, yolk, vanilla, and yogurt until combined. Add the flour/baking soda/salt mixture and beat slowly until just combined...

          ...if you're like me and you don't have an electric mixer, just blend the ingredients with a spoon! The cookies turn out great either way.

Mom mixing the sugars, butter, and egg!

The completed dough.

-Gently fold in the chocolate chips.

Adding the chocolate chips...

-Chill the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.

-Measure roughly 1.5 tablespoons of dough and roll into a ball. Place on greased parchment paper/cookie sheet. Repeat with half of the dough. Push your thumb into each ball until it is somewhat flattened. Add a dollop of Nutella to each cookie dough ball.

-Roll the rest of the dough into balls. Flatten the dough balls as much as possible. Top the Nutella with this flattened dough (see picture below). Repeat until all cookies are "sandwiched"...

-Bake the cookies for 9-11 minutes at 350 degrees (or until edges begin to turn golden brown).

-Sprinkle with a little sea salt.

The cookies will look underdone (like this).........But, after cooling, they will set and look perfect!

Amazing cookies...with or without the Nutella inside.