I earnestly believe Nutella can bring world peace. Who wouldn’t be transported to a completely different world with something as little as a spoonful of Nutella?
Today is World Nutella Day and I only need an excuse to use up some more Nutella instead of devouring it off a spoon. With a little help from my eating partner, I knew Nutella Pinwheel Cookies would be perfect.
Nutella Pinwheel Cookies
Yield: 25-30 cookies
125g / 1 stick butter, softened
½ cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 heaped cup sifted flour
¼ cup Nutella to spread, a little more won’t hurt, but be careful not to overdo lest it ooze!
2-3 tablespoon, toasted, chopped hazelnuts
- Preheat oven to 175C/350F.
- Mix the butter and sugar together till creamy.
- Mix in the egg yolk and the vanilla essence. The mixture should be light and well combined.
- Stir in the flour and refrigerate the dough for 15 minutes so that it can firm up and facilitate easy rolling.
- Next, roll out the dough into a rectangle of ¼ inch thickness.
- Spread the Nutella making sure to leave one finger space on all four sides. Again, we don’t want the Nutella to ooze out!
- Sprinkle over the chopped hazelnuts and roll up the dough.
- Refrigerate for another ten minutes before cutting the slices.
- Lay the slices on a lined baking sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes till slightly golden at the edges. Baking time will vary depending on how thick you’ve cut them. Colour is a good indication.
Now there are two ways you could cut the slices – with a knife (surprise!) and a better, neater way would be with a firm thin wire (found some leftover wire from my flower making class back in school!). When you use a wire you will have a very clean looking pinwheel with no unwanted brown Nutella spots, and a crumbly looking texture, much like the first picture. When you use a knife, you will see that the Nutella smears the rest of the cookie while the knife passes through the dough, albeit smooth textured (the second image).
World Nutella Day is hosted by Sara of Ms Adventures Italy and Michelle of Bleeding Espresso and this is my entry for the blogosphere party!Update Dec 2010: I just had my very first Bake Salewhere the Nutella Pinwheel Cookies were one of the best selling items on the menu of 6 carefully selected items!Still craving for more Nutella? There you go!
Double Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Nutella Banana Cupcake
Still craving for more Cookie Recipes?!
Black Forest Cookies
Buttery Buckwheat Nibby Cookies
Valentine Linzer Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Milan Cookies
Cheddar Cheese Biscuits
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yum! can’t wait to have a go at these! And how do you get the backgrounds looking so nice in all your shots?!
Thanks Merlotti!
That’s just pink handmade paper and a pretty little scarf. hehe
Nutella fans unite! Thanks for the recipe, and the first photo I am considering using for desktop wallpaper!
I want some of these right now! They look so good…
these do look great. i am sure i can use these as bribe treats for soeren too!
These look so good!! I’m am keeping this recipes! Thank you!
They are beautiful!
goodness!
Yes, I agree Nutella could bring world peace! Your cookies look perfectly delish!
Oh me oh my, doesn’t that look yummy!!!
Heidi: Hehe I’m flattered! That’s my fluke shot. Meddled with the ISO.
Elle: Come over! I really wish you could.
MeetaK, easypeasy, Helene, Pearl, MamaFaMi: Thank you so much!
I think that it should be your life’s mission to make these and take them to all war-torn country. Let peace rain on earth.We will disarm the armed when they let go of their weapons to grasp these beauties.
Wow love the first line of the post. Pinwheels look yummylicous.
hese looks so yumm delicious.
One reasonfor my expanding waist line is nutella, i even eat them straight from the pot and sometimes my daughter even tell me are you going to stop, that is how much i love nutella
everyone in my family are nutella addicts, bookmarked the decadent pinwheels as must try:)
Nice!
Cynthia: Hehe I like your idea!
Gigi, Kitchen Flavours: So good to find like minded people
Happy cook: I like your Nutella eating story.
Yasmeen: Let me know when you make ‘em.
Plutosangel: Thank you!
Oh my!!! We made Nutella brownies. Oh my!!!!
Lisa Q
What a great idea – I love Nutella!
Fun Nutella cookies, great way to celebrate
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These look great but I must admit, the first picture is the situation I very rarely get past – it’s all about me, Nutella, and spoon!
These look great! I love nutella. Super fun cookies!
This is amazing! What a great way to enjoy nutella!
Hey I dunno if I just missed it but is there a cooking temp and bake time for the wonder cookies?
Scrumptious Coco…I love pinwheel cookies & yours look divine!
Thanks all!!
Lauren, I can’t believe I missed those details. Thanks for pointing it out – they’ve been added into the recipe.
These look great. Thanks for sharing
I love nutella and everything based on chocolate. Especially with Turkish coffee near it.
These cookies are yummy! It’s great idea to use nutella for cookies. I spread nutella just on my bread. Now I learn something new. Thank you for this recipe.
Food Hunter: Do try them!
Zarrin: I’m so happy you liked the idea. THank you for stopping by!
Nutella goes perfect on anything. I’m still amazed I what I will eat it on. These look perfect. Thanks for sharing!
I am definitely making these. Tomorrow, if not sooner! Thanks so much ~ I can’t wait!
These look wonderful! I love nutella and what a neat idea to do pinwheel cookes with it, yum!
I just made these cookies and I am in love. They are so fast and easy and look gorgeous. And they taste great!
I’ve linked to your post and I thank you for a great recipe.
Michelle
A friend of mine tried to make these, and the dough turned out incredibly soft – almost the texture of cake batter. I wasn't there for the making of the dough, so I have no idea what it was. In any event, I fixed it by making just cookies and making little nutella sandwiches – the cookies were nice and soft and the sandwiches were perfect. In fact, I may even like them better because the nutella to cookie ratio was much, much higher. But I will definitely try the pinwheels, because the dough is delicious and they look so pretty! Thanks!
Turned out perfectly. Dough was bit soft after rolling out & spreading nutella over it. So, I popped right back into the refrigerator, rolled to make pinwheels, covered with parchment paper & then popped into freezer to firm up. I cut slices using a chef knife and didn't see the nutella spread over the dough. Perfect addition to my Christmas cookies to the family!
happy to know they turned out beautifully!
Mom and I made these yesterday and they are *fabulous* (she had made them before but this was my first time). Thank you so much for contributing this wonderful Nutella recipe!
Very happy to know you loved it! =)
hi shaheen,
what do you mean by sifter flour?
World Nutella Day? Who knew? It's a secret, but I've never tasted it before. Clearly, I'm a dork. These look and sound so yummy!
Anon: soy, thats a typo. i meant sifted flour.
Kelly: i cannot believe you!
I tried these out and it came out really good…My lil girl couldnt stop eating these…But i had to add some more flour to the dough…Thanx
Zeb
I just made these cookies- so freaking good!
Thanks for sharing
I just made these cookies…they turned out delicious! I stumbled (literally) across your blog, and I really enjoy reading it
Just want to say thanks for this awesome recipe!
(Not really a cookie-person, I’m more of a bread baker)
This was my first homemade cookies, and their fantabulous!
Great cookies for my first try
Hi there,
Finally made this recipe … & it was good …. lil hard to roll out etc but worked out well … hve also tried ur babka … another easy & doable recipe … thks for the recipes!! Love ur photos as well.
Got these all made up for my son’s birthday tomorrow.
My dough ended up being very soft as well….added more flour to it but not sure if I should have just popped the dough into the freezer for a bit instead.
I hadn’t any ‘wire’ at home so I used dental floss! And it worked a treat once I figured that the best action was a left-to-right sawing action, much like I teach my patients to floss!!
Can’t wait for the kids to try them….I’ve hidden them away until party time!
hahaha expect a dentist to improvise with a floss! But I’ve also seen that refrigerating the log for a while before cutting helps keep it neat. Yes, the dough it a little hard to handle.. and i find that keeping the work surface well floured helps. I’m just as excited. let me know how the kids like it!
The cookies were appreciated and enjoyed by all…kids and their Mammas and Babas! Thanks so much Shaheen. You do a grand job on his blog.
I shall keep your tips in mind for next time…got a whole jar of Nutella, so………
yummy….but cud we make this eggless??
love u r blog…but do give us a substitute for eggs.
try the hazelnut shortbread recipe, it’s eggless, and very similar.
Great tip on cutting the cookie dough. These look delicious! I am going to make them this week! Just purchased the Nutella today.
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