Hugs & Kisses Hazelnut Cookies #Recipe

What you need:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup Nutella
• 1/2 cup Nutella on reserve
• 1 stick of butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Pink or red sugar crystals
• 1 package of Hershey’s hugs candy, unwrapped

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

In another bowl, mix the chocolate hazelnut spread, butter, sugar and brown sugar. Beat together at medium speed until creamy; beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in the dry ingredients.

Shape the cookie dough into balls. Roll the balls in the sugar crystals; place the cookies on a cookie sheet about 4 inches apart, making an indentation with your thumb in the center of the balled dough. Bake for 8 -10 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven. Quickly spoon about ½ tsp of Nutella into the center and top with a Hershey’s Hug. As the cookies cool the Hugs will melt into the Nutella. 

Cool and serve.