Nutella Cookie Cups!!

Nutella...
Possibly one of the best spreads ever.

I say one of the best, because there's just no way of choosing the best spread. It really depends on what the spread is being spread on. And I love so many of them.

For crumpets, it's a tie between cheese spread and vegemite (both with lots of butter, of course!).

For scones, the obvious winner is jam and cream.

For sandwiches, I love Peanut butter and jam or polony and cream cheese (don't knock it till you try it, it's delicious!).

And for toast, Nutella and vegemite are the best.

When I was young, my mum didn't buy nutella very often, as it's full of sugar. So when she did, we would slather it on our toast every morning until, shortly, it was gone. This love of Nutella continued into adolescence, when my first boyfriend and I would gorge ourselves every Sunday on Nutella toast. And I do mean gorge. Piece after piece. We must've eaten almost a whole loaf every Sunday while we went through our Nutella phase.

Enough reminiscing about the delicious hazelnutty goodness...

Here's the recipe.


The trick to making these cookie cups is to not hyperventilate when thinking about the end result: Gooey little bundles of nutella imprisoned in adorable peanut butter cookie cells.


Ingredients-
1 1/2 Cups plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1 large egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup Nutella

1. In a small bowl, sift flour, salt, baking soda.
2. In a seperate large bowl, cream togther the sugar and butter.
3. Add egg and vanilla and beat until mixed.
4. Add peanut butter, beat well.
5. Add the flour mixture.
6. Form 1 1/2 inch balls from the dough and place each ball into a cup of a mini-muffin pan.
7. Bake until just cooked.
8. While hot, use the back of a spoon to indent a deep well into the still-soft cookies.
9. Fill each well with nutella!

I got this recipe from a blog called barbarabakes.com/2011/02/peanut-butter-nutella-cookie-cups/CachedThe recipe is a little different, but if you want to see the real thing, hers look amazing, just like everything on her blog.