Nutella Hazelnut Cookies

I love peanut butter and all things that come with it. Peanut butter cookies, peanut butter cups, peanut butter and bananas, but my husband does not. Even a whiff of the stuff and he runs. So, I swapped Nutella for peanut butter in a favorite peanut butter cookie recipe.

Nutella Hazelnut Cookies:

1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/3 c. unsalted butter, softened

1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. brown sugar

1 large egg

1 c. Nutella

1/2 tsp vanilla exract

Optional:

3/4 c. toasted hazelnuts or 1 dark chocolate hazelnut Ritter Sport bar broken into bits

Preheat the oven to 375F and whisk together dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside. In a mixer, cream the dry ingredients into the butter one cup at a time. Once mixed beat in the egg and Nutella. Finally, fold in the hazelnuts or Ritter Sport bar.

Shape the dough into 1" balls and place appx. 2" appart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or wax paper. Keep them on the small side because these cookies like to spread out (mine turned out huge!). Bake for 10 - 12 minutes and place on a cookie rack to cool.

*Adapted from The Joy of Cooking's Peanut Butter Cookie recipe