Name: Italian Nutella Pastry Cookies
Yield: Makes 2 dozen or more cookies
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, softened; 2 cups all-purpose flour; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1 egg yolk; 2 tablespoons whipping cream or milk; ¼ teaspoon lemon oil, optional; ½ cup Nutella spread; Sugar; 1 egg white; 1 egg; Confectioners’ sugar; ⅔ cup sugar

Preparation info

Makes
2
dozen

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Best Holiday Cookies

By Marcy Goldman

Published 2016

About

This is a wonderful pastry-like cookie, made with Italy’s darling sweet dough, Pasta Frolla. Bursting with Nutella, this delicate pastry is buttery, elegant and irresistible. You can also substitute apricot preserves for the Nutella. Testers voted this outstanding!

Ingredients

Sweet Dough

2 cups all-purpose flour
⅔ cup sugar
¼ teas

Method

For the Sweet Dough, in a mixer bowl, add in the flour, sugar and salt to the bowl and blend briefly. Add in the butter and blend it in, on slow speed of mixer, until mixture is grainy. Add in egg, egg yolk, vanilla and lemon extract and blend until it forms a shaggy mass. Turn out onto a lightly floured board and knead until the dough is smooth. If it doesn’t hold together, add in

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