Here is the latest in Sweet Bean’s kitchen! Try our delicious crispy and melt in your mouth Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies, made with toasted hazelnuts and only 4 ingredients. As always, we would love to see and hear from you about how your own cookie creation.

Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Cup All-Purpose Flour

• 1/2 Cup Hazelnuts Toasted and peeled

• 1 Stick Unsalted Butter

• 1/4 Cup Sugar

• 1 Cup Hazelnut Spread

Instructions

1. Place Hazelnut in a food processor and pulse until finely ground.

2. Add flour, butter and sugar and pulse until a ball of dough is formed.

3. Roll the dough between 2 sheets of parchment paper to 1/4" thick and place in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. (or overnight)

4. Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking pan with parchment paper.

5. Remove dough from the refrigerator use a cookie-cutter to cut cookies.

6. Cut half of the circles with 1/2" circles in the center.

7. Bake for 10-12 minutes on the middle rack. The cookies are ready when the sides are golden and are puffed in the center.

8. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.

9. Spread 1 tsp of Hazelnut spread on half the cookies, dust the rest of the cookies with confectionary sugar and place on top to create a sandwich cookie.