Hazelnut Butter Cookies

These Hazelnut Butter Cookies are so soft and delicious. All you need is 20 minutes, a few ingredients, and a glass of milk to go along with these bad boys!

So excited to share these chewy Hazelnut Butter Cookies with you today!! They combine sweet, rich, creamy hazelnut butter with just a hint of chocolate for one decadently dreamy cookie. They’re like Nutella in chocolate chip cookie form!

I am in love with the fabulously nutty flavor of hazelnuts. I mean, hello Nutella! Chocolate + Hazelnuts = best combination in the world. I wanted to incorporate the rich flavor of hazelnuts with just a hint of milk chocolate so the hazelnuts and cookie could really shine through. What I love about these cookies is that the chocolate doesn’t overpower the delicate flavor of hazelnut. They perfectly complement each other.

But here’s the most important part: I prefer my cookies without nuts! I have a strict no-nut policy in my cookies. I love nuts, but it’s a texture thing. I want my cookie to be soft and chewy. Fortunately hazelnuts are about the easiest thing in the world to turn into hazelnut butter, and the addition of hazelnut butter into the cookies makes them impossibly soft and chewy! They are seriously a dream come true.

Here’s all you’ll need for these cookies — your regular chocolate chip cookie ingredients plus two bags of chopped hazelnuts.

I found these in the baking aisle at Kroger. You can use chopped or whole hazelnuts, you just want to make sure they don’t have the skin on. They may be labeled as “blanched.” You can also look for Filberts — they are hazelnuts under a different name! :)

How to Make Hazelnut Butter Cookies

Add both hazelnut bags to the workbowl of a food processor…

And just let it process for 2-4 minutes. By 3 minutes in, my hazelnuts had turned into pure, liquid gold.

Two 6-ounce bags produces almost exactly 1 cup of hazelnut butter, which is exactly what you’ll need for this recipe.

You’ll also need one stick of softened butter, but I never plan far enough ahead of time to actually soften my butter on the counter. I love that my new Kitchenaid Microwave has a setting for softening a stick of butter. It comes out evenly softened every single time. It’s not like my old microwave which would give me a mostly-solid stick with some completely melted holes, lol! And I no longer have to constantly watch the microwave or start and stop to turn the butter over every five seconds. I can set it and forget it.

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