Salted Nutella Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies
January 24, 2013 | 
Author It’s National Peanut Butter Day!!! And what better way to celebrate than with some cookies? You all are very much aware of my peanut butter obsession, but with the addition of nutella I pretty much lost my mind. These little thumbprints might have to go into overtime in the competition against the butternut salad to determine which is my favorite recipe this week. I know I talked up that salad a bunch, but take the same excitement and apply it here again. How about I just have that salad again with these for dessert? Like 8 of them.
Fleur de sel continues to be unavailable to me except by purchasing online (which for some reason I refuse to do) so I was excited to see course salt used on these cookies. The recipe is also incredibly simple and requires few ingredients – most of which you should already have in your pantry except maybe the natural peanut butter, but I am tempted to try making them with regular. In other words, there is no excuse for not making these in honor of today.
For more peanut butter recipes to celebrate National Peanut Butter Day, check out my peanut butter & chocolate roundup with recipes from all your favorite bloggers.
One year ago: Homemade Pizza Sauce
Two years ago: Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
SALTED NUTELLA PEANUT BUTTER THUMBPRINT COOKIES
Makes 2 dozen small cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup chunky natural peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup nutella
Course sea salt, optional
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment or silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- In large bowl, stir peanut butter together with sugar, egg and vanilla until combined. Scoop onto prepared baking sheet using a small cookie scoop*. Bake 10 minutes, until cookies have slightly flattened and are not shiny. Remove from oven and cool 5 minutes on baking sheet. Press thumb into the center of the warm cookie or use the back of a utensil to create an indentation. Spoon in 1/2 teaspoon nutella into hole and sprinkle with sea salt. Serve.
* I used my medium cookie scoop but then split the dough ball in half
Source: Lauren’s Latest
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What a killer combination of flavors, I need these!!
I brought them into work today. I didn’t want to, because hoarding them all to myself was all I wanted to do. But at the same time I would end up eating them all in one sitting if I didn’t. Now I am being yelled at because they cannot stop eating them haha.
Happy National Peanut Butter Day! What a perfect way to celebrate with these cookies. I love that you combined nutella and peanut butter. My mouth is literally watering!
These look perfect, and sound delicious too!!!!
These cookies are the perfect way to celebrate national peanut butter day!
Love that we are both on a Nutella kick right now! And combining it with peanut butte? Yes, please!
It is meant to be
Silly nut allergy that I have. This looks AMAZING!
Boo!! You could make them with some kind of non-nut peanut butter replacement and then just melted chocolate in the middle?
I will try that!! Thanks for having my back
Oo what about Biscoff??
Ummm you took nat’l peanut butter day to another level with the nutella and salt! I love it.
Ooooooh these cookies look SO FABULOUSLY DELICIOUS!!!!!
No flour for this cookie? Just want to be sure. Thanks.
Nope!
I missed National Peanut Butter Day?! How sad…guess I will just have to celebrate a few days late
It’s never too late to celebrate!
oh YUM
Super yummalicious! PB and Nutella rocks!
Erin, these cookies are out of this world AWESOME. Nutella, pb and sea salt in a cookie? Sign me up!
I just made these, and honestly am
disappointed. They taste like they are missing something, and I think it might be the natural peanut butter – it lacks the sugar that would be in a typical comfort food peanut butter cookie. I was stoked for these and they came up short.
I am sorry to hear they did not turn out well for you. Especially since there is just as much sugar in these as there is peanut butter!
Yummy! These sound amazing Erin. So excited to see them on A Cup of Jo!
Maybe I am a little slow this am, but I’m confused – what do you mean on A Cup of Jo?
http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2013/02/11-nutella-recipes.html
A Cup of Jo is a hugely famous blog. Big deal!!
Oh my gosh! I had no idea they were on there! I thought maybe that’s what you meant but didn’t want to get my hopes up just in case I misunderstood!!
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