mini nutella cups

i am so freaking over snow. i'm over it. i cant stand it. i dont want anything to do with it. i hate it. an apparently there's more coming tonight? fantastic. /sarcasm. seriously. last winter i feel like there was maybe a minute of snow and that was it. everytime it snows my bones ache and i get tired and lazy and want to hide in comfort food. not to mention works gets especially busy when it's cold for whatever reason, so things be come increasingly hetic. and to top it off, i get rear ended while at a dead stop on the highway and my boyfriend wants to bicker about who's going over who's house and why i apparently never go there. um.. because 8-12 inches of snow tonight that's why. i don't think either of us should be on the road in the snow, especially me because i get worlds of anxiety around inclement weather. so whatever.

this right here is a really bad picture of a really delish cookie. so flipping much work to make but so good. i wasn't sure if this was a recipe i should even venture into because nutella is not exactly on the path to a skinny tummy food. but it's so good. and my boyfriend is so obsessed with it. if it's in the house, he will sneak eat it in the middle of the night. i swear, the boy would live off of nutella if he could.

anyway, i had a really tough time trying to find the perfect thing to stamp the cup part of the cookie with. the bottom of a shot glass did not work for me as the recipe claimed it would. so i tried tops of different bottles and found that the top of a tobasco sauce worked good for me. it's not like anyone who ate them noticed. i also had trouble distributing the nutella because i wanted them to look even and pretty. which, is not happening apparently. but i found if i did it while the cookies were still warm the nutella melted and all was right with the world again.

mini nutella cookie cups

(Makes enough for 2-3 dozen)
Recipe adapted from Delightful Bites, originating from Barbara Bakes
Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe adapted from AllRecipes (sans chips)
ingredients

1 cup butter (softened)

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

Jar of Nutella(12 tablespoons per batch)

preheat oven to 350 degrees F. grease your mini muffin tin (unless it is nonstick).

cream butter and both sugar in bowl until light, smooth. beat in eggs and vanilla fully and then gradually add dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda) until all the flour is mixed in.

roll dough into balls 1.5 inches thick and pop them in the mini muffin tin and bake for 10-12 minutes, until golden brown but not too dark around the edges.

when done, remove from oven and let sit for about 2 minutes and make wells for the nutella with a shot glass, a similar object or a spoon. add 1 tbsp Nutella to each cup – it will start to melt quickly so you can swirl it around and make it nice and smooth.

 let cool 15-20 minutes in tin. remove from tin and enjoy.