During my long summer holiday, I have been baking almost three times every week. I have baked my classics like shortbreads, butterscotch chip cookies and red velvet crinkle cookies and have even made a three course meal for my family, (asparagus in an almond and parmesan crust with guacamole, homemade aubergine pasta sauce on jacket potatoes and mug cakes.)
However, I have also tried many new recipes. Now a days majority of my recipes are adapted from instagram videos or I have simply searched a basic recipe on the internet and adapted them or made them more complicated. Recently, I said to my brother "if i could bake you anything, what would it be?" His instant response was "something with peanut-butter and Nutella. Although I have baked with peanut-butter many times before I tend to not usually use Nutella, especially for biscuits as it changes the texture of the biscuits making them harder to mould. I usually use cocoa powder in order to get a chocolaty flavour.
I remembered once, when at Selfridges with my friends, that another way to incorporate flavours into biscuits is to "stuff them with it." A recent trend in cafes and bakeries is to make plain cookies or mildly flavoured cookies and then make a truffle to put inside the cookie before baking it. Therefore when you bite into the cookie you still get the flavour you wanted. Although i have tried this before with Oreos and it went down a treat i have never actually made truffles as I have been told they are very hard. In order to make the actual cookie I decided to follow a basic biscuit recipe and adapt it. I then made the truffles, which although require time, are not that difficult to make. Here is my recipe for Nutella and Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies.
Ingredients (makes 21)
truffles:
- 1 cup of Nutella (or any chocolate spread of a similar consistency)
- 1/4 of a cup of creamy peanut butter (crunchy peanut butter works but not as well)
cookies:
- 1/2 cup of unsalted softened butter
- 1 cup of creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
- 1 and 2/3 cup of plain flour
- 1 tsp of baking soda
- 1/2 tsp of salt
- 1/4 cup of caster sugar
method:
- to make the truffles start by lining a baking sheet with wax paper
- place the Nutella and Peanut Butter in a bowl and heat in the micro-wave for a minute or until smooth
- put in the fridge for about 15 minutes taking it out every 2 minutes to stir
- continue this until the mixture is thick enough to scoop
- scoop the mixture into tablespoon sized balls and place them on the baking tray
- leave in the fridge until ready to use
- to make the cookies heat the oven to 175'c and line 2 baking sheets with baking paper
- mix the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar together in a large bowl until light and creamy
- beat in the eggs and vanilla
- add the flour baking soda and salt and continue to mix until a dough is formed
- to assemble the cookies place the granulated sugar in a small bowl
- scoop out about 2 tbs of your dough and flatten then place the truffle in the middle
- wrap the dough around the truffle making sure it is secure and fully sealed
- roll the dough around in the sugar, place on the baking tray and flatten SLIGHTLY
- repeat with all the dough
- bake the cookies for 10 minutes or until they looked cooked
- Make sure they have cooled before putting them on a wired tray as they will be heavier than a normal cookie
- ENJOY!!
I hope you have enjoyed my recipe for Peanut Butter and Nutella Stuffed Cookies. If you have any other ideas for me to bake or talk about then don't hesitate to comment below. I would really appreciate it.
Lottie X
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