Nutella Cookies With Oatmeal, Organic Walnuts And Dark Chocolate
Ingredients (yield: 20 cookies)
- • 100 g/ 3.5 oz. creamy unsalted butter
- • 6 heaping Tbsp flour
- • 12 Tbsp old-fashioned oats
- • 1 medium egg
- • 1 tsp Bourbon vanilla extract
- • 4 Tbsp brown sugar
- • 4 Tbsp sultanas
- • 4 heaping Tbsp Nutella
- • 4 Tbsp of coarsely chopped organic walnuts
- • 50 g/1.75 oz. organic dark chocolate (72% cocoa) – coarsely chopped
- • 1 tsp baking powder
- • 2/3 tsp salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 180C/ 360F and line two pans or baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl mix together butter, egg, Nutella, sultanas and vanilla. In a different bowl mix together flour, baking powder, oats, brown sugar, chopped walnuts and salt. Add the dry ingredients in the first bowl and give it a good stir using a spatula.
Toss in the chopped chocolate and give it another quick stir.
Just one piece of advice before I go any further with this recipe. I tried making these cookies in the microwave and they came out really good except for the sultanas being slightly burned. So if you’re planning on using your microwave, forget about sultanas and just double the amount of walnuts instead. Also use the microwave’s pizza/ crisp plate and microwave safe silicone-coated parchment paper. If you’re going for the microwave you don’t need to preheat the oven (some microwaves let you preheat the pizza plate but I’ve never used that function).
Drop the dough on the lined cookie sheets using a spoon. Repeat the “spoon-operation” until there’s no dough left. Make sure to place them leaving about 5 cm/ 2 inch free space in between. Using the heel of your hand press the dough gently until the cookies are about 1 ¼ cm/ 0.5 inch thick.
Bake for about 14-16 minutes. Or microwave them for 8 minutes on 500 W and 1 ½ minutes on crisp – the time for baking 7 cookies. If you bake less or more cookies on the pizza plate, you’ll need to adjust the time. For instance I found that 4 minutes on 500 W and 45 seconds on crisp work just fine for 3 cookies.
Let them cool on cooling racks (you’ll have to be gentle as you transfer them to the cooling racks because they aren’t firm yet). They will firm up as they’ll start to cool.
And here comes the best part: enjoy 
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These are some delicious crunchy cookies that I created for my Nutella cravings. I wanted to keep them as healthy as possible without cutting down the delish and boy this strategy really paid off.
This post is also my second contribution to Nutriferia’s Chocolate Desserts roundup. They’ve extended the deadline until the 18th so don’t forget to participate as I know you have no difficulties in coming up with great chocolate desserts, right?
Bourbon and nutella? Now that’s a a combo to relish in!
10 May 2008 at 13:39With those super big photos of yours, I want to eat the whole screen. They look delicious.
10 May 2008 at 15:13Mmm sounds yummy I could imagine it with a cup of tea or milk.
10 May 2008 at 16:59Can you believe that I first tried Nutelly just a few months ago? I think I am the last person on the planet to experience it. Nutella cookies would be absolutely delicious for certain! Great original recipe.
11 May 2008 at 08:34what a spectacular list of ingredients! how could these cookies not be phenomenal? heck, i’d eat most of those things plain, but combined? sign me up!
12 May 2008 at 16:28WOW oh WOW those cookies look fantastic and I could just take one or two off your hands to sample if you like *giggle*
Rosie x
12 May 2008 at 18:54microwaveable?!!! Lore, you are a genius!
12 May 2008 at 19:25nutella rocks!
12 May 2008 at 22:28Nutella is all you had to say and I was in feet first. These sounds delicious and evil, I love it!
13 May 2008 at 02:35Nice recipe Lore!. I´ve walnuts and don´t know what to do with them. Thanks for sharing
13 May 2008 at 12:38ooh, Lore, that seems like worth trying..
13 May 2008 at 23:54Hi Lore, these cookies are fab - chocolate overload! (I thought I was going mad when I tried to post a comment a couple of times previously using IE - nice to know that technology is still predctably unreliable.)
14 May 2008 at 04:41I am the Nutella Monster! These cookies look like something I would want to hide from my wife…
Lore, nice job with the photos on your blog!
15 May 2008 at 15:49