Ingredients For Nutella Stuffed Grinch Cookies

• Unsalted Butter: Using unsalted butter allows you to fully control the amount of salt going into your cookies.

• Granulated sugar: This recipe uses granulated sugar to create a crunchy outside and a soft interior.

• Egg: Eggs will bind your cookies together

• Vanilla Extract: Will give the cookies a depth of flavour.

• Green food colouring: The green food colouring is to resemble the Grinch.

• All Purpose Flour: The all-purpose flour is perfect for these cookies, it creates a tender cookie.

• Cinnamon: The cinnamon is used to make a cinnamon sugar mixture to roll the cookie dough balls in before baking.

• Baking soda: & Baking powder: It’s a leavening agent.

• Salt: Any baked goods need salt. Salt is used to balance out the sweetness of any dessert.

• Heart shaped sprinkles: The heart shaped sprinkles are for the Grinch’s heart.

How To Make Nutella Stuffed Grinch Cookies?

1. Making The Filling: For the Nutella filling, scoop out Nutella into 1 tbsp balls placing onto a parchment paper lined tray and placing in the freezer, until ready to use.

2. Mix wet Ingredients as shown below in step 3.

3. Mix dry Ingredients together.

4. Scooping: Use a 1,5 ounce cookie scoop, and scoop cookie dough in your palm and flatten out.

5. Baking: Bake for 12 to 14 minutes, or until the center has puffed up and cookie have spread.

6. Let cool for 10 minutes before devouring. Enjoy!

Filling Cookies

To fill the cookies without it oozing out the sides of the cookies, it’s important that your filling is thick, doesn’t stick to your fingers and is able to stay in its right shape. It’s very important to freeze the Nutella balls in the freezer while making the cookie dough until ready to be used. Another trick to prevent a sticky filling, is to use a cookie scoop to have a proper and clean filling that will sit perfectly in the centre of the cookies.

Keep in mind that your environment temperature can also have a high effect on how the filling might come out.

Can I Make The Cookies Without The Nutella Filling?

Of course! If you don’t want to stuff these Grinch cookies with Nutella because you don’t like Nutella, don’t have it or whatever the reason may be, you can still make these soft and chewy Grinch cookies without it, and they will still taste delicious. All you're going to do, is follow the recipe and ingredients as instructed, and just take out the step of freezing and filling the cookies with Nutella. If you will not fill the cookies with Nutella, then I recommend rolling them in sugar before baking off!

How To Store Nutella Stuffed Grinch Cookies?

These Nutella stuffed Grinch cookies should be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 7 days, or they can be put in the fridge for up to 10 days.

Serving size

• Around 10 to 12 cookies

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, room temperature

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 1 egg

• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 tsp green food colouring

• 2 cups All-purpose flour

• 1/2 tsp baking soda

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1 container of Nutella

• 1/3 cup granulated sugar for rolling (optional)

Toppings

• Heart shaped Sprinkles

Instructions

Step 1

• Preheat oven to 350°F (177C). Line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.

Step 2

• For the Nutella filling, scoop out Nutella into 1 tbsp balls placing onto a parchment paper lined tray and placing in the freezer, until ready to use.

Step 3

• With a whisk, beat butter, and granulated sugar together until fluffy and mixture turns an off-white colour (about 2 minutes). Add the egg, and vanilla extract and mix until a smooth consistency. Mix in the green food colouring.

Step 4

• Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix until a soft dough forms. Use a 1,5 ounce cookie scoop, and scoop cookie dough in your palm and flatten out. Place the cooled Nutella ball in the center and fold cookie dough around it. Roll the cookie dough ball in granulated sugar (optional).

Step 5

• Bake for 12 to 14 minutes, or until the cookies have puffed up and the center is still gooey. Let cool for 10 minutes before adding the heart shaped sprinkles and devouring. Enjoy!