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chocolate & hazelnut cookies

25 October, 2018

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Chocolate & hazelnut cookies, a really tasty and quick bake with kids.

Chocolate and hazelnut cookies, who doesn’t love them? Certainly not me, they are one of my favourite biscuits. However, I do prefer to make my own as I find shop bought just a bit too hard and really not what I want from a cookie. Also they rarely contain enough hazelnuts for me. I like my cookies loaded in hazelnuts, there should be just as much hazelnut as there are chocolate chips.

Now I’m not going to suggest for a minute that I don’t buy shop bought biscuits, I’m a busy Mum, of course I do! It’s just that there are certain things that I prefer to make myself and cookies are one such thing. On the other hand you’d never find me baking Digestive biscuits, they are perfect straight from the packet!

Cookies are a great quick and straightforward bake. There’s little effort involved in pulling together a cookie batter and after a quick bake in the oven you have a far superior biscuit to anything you can buy shop bought.

Can I bake these cookies with my kids?

This recipe is quick and simple which makes it an ideal bake with children. My kids are in the kitchen with me all the time, they enjoy getting stuck in. However, regardless of their enthusiasm, it can be short lived at times. Which is why I like to have a selection of recipes that they can prepare without any involvement from me. Recipes that don’t take too long are essential when baking with children!

These chocolate and hazelnut cookies are one such recipe, they are great for a child’s solo bake. Cookies are forgiving, there’s no uniform shape, they are not meant to be dainty.

Recipe steps:

Crushing hazelnuts in a plastic bag with a rolling pin.
Break up the hazelnuts with a rolling pin
Cookie dough with added chopped hazelnuts and chocolate chips.
Mix the chocolate chips & crushed hazelnuts into the cookie dough
Shape the cookie dough into rough balls & place well apart on a baking sheet

Can I adapt the flavour in this cookie?

This recipe is simple, a basic cookie dough to which we’ve added flavours of chocolate, hazelnut and vanilla. However, as with all basic recipes the flavours can be adapted to suit your taste.

You can add any type of chocolate chips: white; milk; or dark; to this cookie mixture. If you fancy a mix of all three then mix them up to make 140g of chocolate chips.

I love adding nuts to cookies: almonds; brazil or macadamia nuts are my favourites. Dried fruits like raisin; sultanas; currants; cranberry; blueberry; all work with a basic cookie. Ramp up the fruity flavour by adding some citrus zest. When it comes to flavouring lemon; lime; or orange zest can transform a simple cookie.

That’s what I like about a basic recipe, you can play around with it and add the flavours that you enjoy and like to eat. Get creative!

For example next up I fancy trying chocolate, orange & cranberry cookies. Leaving out the vanilla and nuts, replacing them with orange extract, orange zest and of course dried cranberries. I’ll also swap the milk chocolate chips for dark chocolate.

How long with chocolate & hazelnut cookies stay fresh?

If you keep these cookies in an airtight container, they will remain fresh for up to a week. Not that they ever last that long in my house!

However, do not be tempted to refrigerate these cookies as they will go stale in the fridge.

Can I freeze chocolate & hazelnut cookies?

Rather than freeze the cookie itself, what I like to do is freeze the dough. Sometimes I make a double batch of chocolate and hazelnut cookie dough then split it into 3 portions. I bake 1 portion and freeze the other 2 for baking fresh at a later date.

Roll the dough into a log shape, wrap in clingfilm and place in a container suitable for the freezer. This means you have fresh cookie dough, ready to bake any time you fancy a sweet treat. Simply remove from the freezer, defrost and drop into rough balls, as shown above, and bake!

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Alternative recipe suggestions:

If you like this recipe then why not try some of our other simple biscuit recipes:

  • Orange Butter Biscuits
  • Lemon Butter Biscuits
  • Custard Creams
  • Ginger & Chilli Biscuits
  • Spiced Christmas Cookies
  • No-bake Mars Bar Slice
  • No-bake Chocolate Tiffin

These cookies are also delicious served with our Mulled Apple Juice.

If you enjoyed this bake have a look at our Ultimate Guide to Baking with Kids, full of great recipe suggestions for baking with children.

chocolate & hazelnut cookies

A great quick bake with the kids, chocolate and hazelnut cookies.
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Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 25 mins
Servings: 25 biscuits
Calories: 167kcal
Author: Lesley Garden

Ingredients

  • 80 g granulated sugar
  • 80 g light brown muscovado sugar
  • 150 g unsalted butter (softened)
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 225 g plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 140 g milk chocolate chips
  • 140 g hazelnuts

Instructions

  • Place the butter and both sugars into a bowl and beat well until you get a creamy mixture.
  • Meanwhile place the hazelnuts in a sealed plastic bag and bash up gently with a rolling pin to create small chunks of nut.
  • Once you have beaten the butter and sugars together, beat in the vanilla extract and the egg, mixing well to combine.
  • Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt to the bowl and continue to mix well until you have a rough dough.
  • Add the milk chocolate chips and hazelnuts to the dough and mix until you have a well combined dough.
  • Pull together small golf ball sized balls of the cookie dough and place these on a tray lined with baking parchment. Space the cookies well apart as they will spread in the oven. However do not flatten out the balls of dough.
  • Once you have shaped all the cookies, you should get 25-30 cookies from this mix, place the trays in an oven at 170CFan. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes, they should be a little soft in the middle.
  • Remove the cookies from the oven, place them on a wire cooling rack and allow to cool. Once cool store in an airtight container.

Notes

This basic cookie dough recipe can be easily adapted for other flavours.
For anyone with a nut allergy, simply leave out the hazelnuts and increase the chocolate chips to 200g.
Nutrition Facts
chocolate & hazelnut cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 167 Calories from Fat 81
% Daily Value*
Fat 9g14%
Saturated Fat 4g25%
Cholesterol 20mg7%
Sodium 56mg2%
Potassium 55mg2%
Carbohydrates 18g6%
Sugar 10g11%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 170IU3%
Vitamin C 0.4mg0%
Calcium 19mg2%
Iron 0.8mg4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

• Please note that the nutrition information provided above is approximate and meant as a guideline only •

Course : Baking
Cuisine : American, British
Keyword : biscuits, cookie, cookies, vegetarian
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  1. Lucilia

    1 February, 2021 at 19:52

    5 stars
    This is the best cookie recipe I’ve found all my family loved it
    It’s now my go to for all my cookies just changing the chocolate an hazelnut for other things but the chocolate and hazelnut are delicious Thankyou for sharing

    Reply
    • Lesley

      2 February, 2021 at 11:43

      Thank you very much Lucy, I’m delighted that you like this recipe. It’s our favourite too and like you we change up the ingredients from time to time, depending on what’s in my cupboards.

      Reply
  2. Almaz

    26 December, 2020 at 08:50

    4 stars
    Very easy and straightforward recipe, and they tasted lovely.
    However I wanted to know what you would suggest to make them a bit less cakey and more “doey” on a the inside just to suit my personal preference. Should I adjust the cooking time or tweak some ingredients?

    Reply
    • Lesley

      5 January, 2021 at 11:19

      Thank you Almaz, they are such a simple cookie to bake. Ok a couple of suggestions that you might want to try. Firstly you could try swapping the muscovado sugar for some white sugar as white sugar tends to make a crunchier cookie. However, doing this you would loose some of the depth of flavour. You could also try making the cookies a little smaller and try cooking them for a little longer, however, take care not to burn them.

      Reply
  3. Rosario Plummer

    13 November, 2020 at 13:40

    5 stars
    Amazing and delicious

    Reply
    • Lesley

      13 November, 2020 at 15:27

      Thank you Rosario.

      Reply
  4. Jackie Thompson

    26 January, 2020 at 08:20

    5 stars
    These look gorgeous sending hubby out for hazelnuts today on the excuse he loves nuts. Can’t wait to try them . Thanks for sharing

    Reply
    • Lesley

      26 January, 2020 at 10:52

      You’re welcome Jackie. They’re such a simple bake but very moreish. I hope you enjoy them. Lesley

      Reply
  5. Janice

    8 February, 2019 at 21:07

    5 stars
    I love the look of these cookies, hazelnuts have such a great taste and go really well with chocolate.

    Reply
    • Lesley

      9 February, 2019 at 07:43

      Thank you Janice, these are my daughters favourite cookies (mine too) and easy enough that they can bake them themselves. Lesley x

      Reply
  6. Fiona

    21 January, 2019 at 09:23

    5 stars
    The girls made these at the weekend – half with hazelnuts and half without as one doesn’t like nuts. They were delicious!

    Reply
    • Michelle

      23 January, 2019 at 09:13

      So pleased you and the girls enjoyed them Fiona, its one of the bakes we make a lot with our girls too. Cheers, Michelle x

      Reply

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