Wednesday Vacation Adventures

After the previous day's adventures, we decided that Wednesday should be more of a laid-back day. We played some games in the morning at Elizabeth's house, and then went to Olive Garden for lunch to meet up with our friend, Cherie.

It had been 3 years since I had seen Cherie, so it was nice to catch up with her!

When we got back, we decided it was time to bake something delicious. Elizabeth had a whole binder filled with yummy dessert recipes, and after some deliberation, we finally decided on Nutella cookies. We had lots of fun making them. Seriously, we took about 50 pictures throughout the cookie making process. I will only post a few though...:P

They turned out quite delicious! Elizabeth gave me the recipe so I could post it on here, so if you want to give them a try, go for it! :D

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Nutella Cookies

Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup Nutella or other hazelnut chocolate spread
1 egg
½ tsp. vanilla
1 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
1/3 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. Cream butter with an electric mixer about 1 minute until smooth. Add in both sugars. Beat on high speed about 3 minutes until light & fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.

3. With the mixer on low, add the egg and Frangelico (or vanilla). Then add the Nutella and mix well.

4. In a small bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, and mix on low speed until incorporated. Increase the speed to medium and mix just until the dough is smooth. Fold in chocolate chips.

5. Using a small ice cream scoop (or a teaspoon) form the dough into balls and place on greased cookie sheet. To prevent my cookies from spreading too much, I stuck the cookie sheets in the freezer for about 10 minutes before baking.

6. Bake 6-7 minutes (or 7-8 if baking from freezer). Let cookies cool about 5 minutes and transfer to a rack to cool completely. (Note: We ended up putting them in longer than 6-7 minutes, so you just have to judge timing for yourself!)