Nutella stuffed cookies

Name: Nutella stuffed cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 300 min
Ingredients: Nutella; 100 g butter; 150 g soft brown sugar; 1 egg; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 200 g self raising flour; 100 g chocolate chips

What could be better than a delicious chocolate chip cookie? A Nutella stuffed cookie with an oozy chocolate filling!

Nutella stuffed cookies are one of life’s greatest pleasures! Our favourite chocolate chip cookie – chewy on the inside but crisp on the outside – just got better with a delicious oozy Nutella filled centre.

I’ve seen chocolate stuffed cookies before but these came at the request of my youngest. He wanted to make a cookie that had more chocolate in it,so I thought these would fit the bill!

They really are a delicious as you’d think. The Nutella makes them feel perfectly naughty, which I think all good cookies should do!

How can kids help to make Nutella stuffed cookies?

We’ve used a really easy cookie recipe for kids can enjoy making these from scratch.

The basic cookie recipe just needs a few ingredients measured out and mixed together. There’s really nothing in the recipe that even young children can’t do.

The most fun part of this bake is getting to stuff the cookies with Nutella. And once you know the secret, you realise getting the soft, oozy chocolate filling isn’t hard at all.

So, how do you make the soft Nutella filling inside the cookie? Simply freeze dollops of Nutella first – without doing that, you’ll end up with a chocolatey mess!

Other delicious Nutella filled bakes

If you love adding Nutella to your bakes, like we do, you’ll love these recipes:

Banana and Nutella loaf
Nutella cupcakes
Banana and Nutella muffins
Nutella Christmas tree
Nutella stuffed pancakes
Chocolate dodgers
Nutella chocolate mug cake
Nutella fudge
Nutella babka

Ingredients

Nutella
100g butter
150g soft brown sugar
1 egg
½ tsp vanilla extract
200g self raising flour
100g chocolate chips

How to make Nutella stuffed cookies

Freeze the Nutella

Make the Nutella cookie centres

Using a spoon, spoon 12 dollops of Nutella onto a baking tray. If you need to, use another spoon to get the Nutella off the first spoon!

Freeze the Nutella for 4 hours, or longer (preferably overnight.)

Preheat your oven to 180C / 170C Fan / 350F and line 2-3 baking trays with baking or parchment paper.

Make the cookie dough

Start by measuring out the butter and sugar and add them both to a large mixing bowl or free-standing mixer.

If your butter isn’t soft (we always forget to take ours out the fridge beforehand), pop it in the microwave for 10 seconds or so. Just enough to soften it. You don’t want it to melt.

Cream the butter and sugar together with a hand held mixer, the k paddle of your free-standing mixer or wooden spoons until it looks light and fluffy. Scrape down the edges of your bowl with a spatula if you need to.

Next, get your kids to crack an egg into a small bowl (to make sure no rogue shell goes in), then add it to your mixing bowl.

Add the vanilla extract. I fin it easiest to either hold the measuring spoon level and let my kids carefully pour in the vanilla extract or vice versa.

Mix everything together

Now get your kids to measure out the flour, add it to your bowl and give it a good mix so it is well incorporated.

Finally, pour the chocolate chips in. Using a spatula or wooden spoon, mix them in thoroughly.

Make the Nuella stuffed cookies

Scoop out a dollop of cookie mixture and flatten it out in your hand. Take one of your frozen bits of Nutella and put it into the centre of the dough. Wrap the dough around the Nutella and form a ball again with your hands.

Pop it on a baking tray and repeat with the others leaving room between each cookie for them to spread.

We found the easiest way of doing this with my kids was for me to get the cookie dough ready and flattened and they’d do the rest. You can give each cookie a quick check when you pop it on the baking tray just to make sure it’s sealed all around.

If you have older children they might enjoy doing this all themselves – it’s really quite easy as long as the Nutella is hard/frozen enough.

Chill the cookies in the fridge for 20-30 minutes before you bake them to stop them spreading too much in the oven.

Bake the Nutella stuffed cookies

Bake the cookies for around 8-10 minutes. They’re ready when they’ve turned a nice golden brown colour.

Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool on the baking tray for a few minutes before putting them on a wire rack to cool completely.

Serve and enjoy!