Italian Nutella Pastry Cookies

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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
  • 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