Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ok, so this is a new favorite. We found it online through ivilliage.com and tweaked it only a bit to add wheat flour instead of white flour. Definitely a do-over! The nutella and lemon zest add some great flavor to the normal chocolate chip cookie recipe! :)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Ingredients:
Whole wheat flour: 2 1/2 cups
Cocoa powder: 1/4 cup
Baking soda: 1 tsp
Salt: 1 tsp
White Sugar: 3/4 cup
Brown Sugar: 3/4 cup
Butter, softened: 1 cup
Eggs: x2
Vanilla: 1 tsp
Lemon zest: 1/2 tsp (We added a bit more)
Nutella: 1/3 cup
Chocolate Chips: 2 cups
Optional: add Hazelnuts

Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl and set aside. In a mixing bowl or mixer, combine sugars and butter and cream until smooth. Add eggs one at a time to this sugar/butter mixture until smooth. Add vanilla, lemon zest, and nutella to this same mix. Gradually add the flour mixture to this slowly. Add chocolate chips and optional hazelnuts.

Bake 12 minutes. We made our cookies a bit smaller and so baked them for closer to 9 minutes.

Enjoy! :)

Holiday Cookie Recipes to come

So, we know that we have been negligent on this blog but we have been so busy! So, to make up for it, we are going to put up our Christmas cookie recipes this year. No, they aren't "from our garden" but it's that time of year when not as much is being made from our garden, so this will be a fun new part of our blog for this time of year! Check back soon - we'll try to post a couple in the next day or two. Happy Holidays!