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! :)