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Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle Cookies

These chocolate hazelnut truffle cookies have a deep chocolate flavor, a brownie-esque texture which to me equates truffles (the most sacred of food groups) and that beautiful toasty crunch that distinctively comes from hazelnuts.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Cookies
Keyword: Chocolate, Hazelnut, Truffle, Cookies, Dessert, Baking
Servings: 2 Dozen

Ingredients

  • 1 3⁄4 cups dark chocolate, (coarsely chopped)
  • 1/2 cup sunflower seed oil, (or other neutral oil)
  • 1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon real vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon milk (2%)
  • 3 large eggs, (room temperature and whisked until frothy)
  • 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1⁄2 cup bread flour
  • 1⁄4 cup unsweetened dark (Dutch process) cocoa powder, (sifted)
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 ½ cups dark chocolate, (coarsely chopped)
  • 1 cup Diamond Chopped Hazelnuts

Instructions

  • To make the cookies, place chocolate, oil, sugar, vanilla and milk in a heat-safe bowl on top of pot of simmering water, stirring until the chocolate is melted and then whisk in your eggs until the whole mixture is smooth and shiny.
  • In another bowl whisk together the all-purpose flour, bread flour, cocoa powder, sea salt, baking powder and baking soda. Pour the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture and give a couple of stirs until the dough is just starting to come together. Fold in the chocolate and hazelnuts. Either wrap tightly and chill the cookie dough for 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge or let sit on the counter until the dough has firmed up a bit.
  • Preheat your oven to 350F and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • Gently roll 2 tablespoons of dough into a ball and place on the cookie sheet allowing about 2 inches between each dough ball. Bake one sheet at a time in the center of the oven for 9 minutes. You want to slightly under bake these. Allow the cookies to cool on the sheet for 15 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.
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