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Nutella Peppermint Thumbprints
Author: Jackie
Ingredients
Nutella Peppermint Thumbprints- recipe adapted from Martha Stewart
  • 1 stick (8 tbsp) Plugrá European-Style butter, room temp
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 ¼ cups flour
Nutella Peppermint Filling
  • 4 tablespoon Nutella
  • 2 tablespoon corn syrup
  • 1 tablespoon Plugrá European-Style Butter
  • 2 candy canes chopped (or in my case beaten with a meat tenderizer)
Instructions
Nutella Peppermint Thumbprints
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Cream butter and powdered sugar until combined, add vanilla.
  3. In a separate bowl combine flour and salt.
  4. Add flour mixture to creamed butter and mix until combined.
  5. Roll 1 inch balls and place on a lined baking sheet.
  6. Gently make a thumbprint in the middle of each cookie.
  7. Bake for 12 minutes.
  8. Once you remove the cookies from the oven, take the handle side of a small spoon and gently indent the cookies where your thumbprint was.
  9. Cool completely.
Nutella Peppermint Filling
  1. In a small pan combine Nutella, butter and corn syrup.
  2. Melt everything together for about 3 minutes until everything is combined, stirring constantly to avoid burning.
  3. Remove from heat.
  4. Using a small spoon, fill each cookie with Nutella sauce.
  5. Let cool for a minute then sprinkle with candy cane crumbs.