This recipe is a variation of one I posted a couple of years ago. Today, I substituted hazelnuts (I had a huge bag that needed to be used up) and one can never have too many cookies in the freezer… can they? I have to say, I think I prefer these ones with the hazelnuts…
Cream Cheese and Hazelnut Cookies
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 pound butter, softened
- 6 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 Tbsp plus 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups hazelnuts, toasted and chopped fine
- 1 cup hazelnuts, chopped very fine (to roll logs in)
Instructions
- Sift together flour and salt. Cream butter and cream cheese on medium until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in sugar and vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture. Mix until just combined (do not over mix). Mix in toasted hazelnuts.
- Divide dough into two equal amounts and shape each piece into an 8 1/2 inch long log (about 2 inches in diameter). Roll each log in 1/2 cup finely chopped hazelnuts.Wrap each log in parchment and freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees with racks in upper and lower thirds. Remove one log from freezer. Cut log into 1/4 inch thick rounds. Transfer to baking sheets.
- Bake, switching positions of sheets and rotating halfway through, until cookies are golden around the edges, 18 – 20 minutes. Transfer to wire racks; let cool. Repeat the process with remaining dough using cooled cookie sheets.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart
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Oh these do look great, thanks for the recipe Barb. I like the new header.
absolutely love your new header! girlfriend, you are not doing my waistline any favors. a lb of butter? OMG I WILL be making it….
Thank you, Roxi! About the cookies – they have lots of fibre…
YUM! This looks divine. Must close this browser tab and forget I saw them.
Oh my, hazelnuts and cream cheese and a lb of butter, wow…what could be better?!! I’ll be right over, put the coffee on!!
Yum! And that is a wonderful photo…made for a cook book!
That sounds yummy Barb gorgeous photo too…
Oh my goodness, these look sinfully good!
Thank you for sharing the recipe, Barb.
Please pass the crackers my friend…Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xo
I love cookies like these! Sort of like shortbread? I’ve been using a lot of almonds in cookie recipes, it’s time now for hazelnuts!