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Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies Recipe

Published: Dec 22, 2013 | 48 Comments

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Hazelnut shortbread cookies recipe – perfect for the Holidays! These Christmas cookies have a perfect texture – crumbly and buttery, they just melt in your mouth.

Christmas hazelnut shortbread cookies recipe

This recipe is ridiculously easy: only 5 ingredients. The hazelnut cookies are phenomenal! You’d be thinking you’re eating a very special cookie, and not something that you just whipped up in 20 minutes. Of course, in a large part, we have to thank hazelnuts for the deliciousness of this recipe – they really make these shortbread cookies so … what’s the word? … hazelnutty. Dusted with powdered sugar they become perfection.

Your Christmas cookie tray is not complete without these hazelnut cookies.  It is also not complete without pecan shortbread cookies, or amaretto shortbread cookies, or cranberry noels.

Christmas hazelnut shortbread cookies recipe

The cookies have the consistency of crumbly, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread, with a distinctive hazelnut flavor. Perfect to serve as a little dessert alongside a cup of coffee, tea, or a glass of milk. It’s a highly unassuming cookie, very easy to make – just make sure to chill the dough before baking, and you should be all set. Also, the cookie dough wrapped in plastic wrap can be kept frozen up to a month.

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Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 

These hazelnut shortbread cookies are perfect for your Christmas cookie box.  The cookies have the consistency of crumbly, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread, with a distinctive hazelnut flavor.  

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 30 cookies
Calories: 63 kcal
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup hazelnuts (2 oz)
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 4 oz unsalted butter , cold, cut into small pieces
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar , for dusting
Instructions
  1. Toast raw hazelnuts at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 5-7 minutes until fragrant. Cool the nuts to room temperature, then husk them by rubbing a handful of hazelnuts between your hands. This should do a pretty good job of getting rid of most of the skins. Some will remain – that’s OK.
  2. To make finely ground nuts, place toasted and husked hazelnuts and 1/4 cup sugar into food processor and process until finely ground.
  3. Add 3/4 cup and 2 tablespoons of flour and a pinch of salt to the food processor and pulse to combine. Add butter and process until dough forms, scraping the sides of the food processor bowl with spatula if necessary. The dough will be soft.

  4. On a flour-dusted surface, roll dough into 2 logs, each about 1 inch wide. Wrap each log in plastic wrap and place wrapped cookie dough in the freezer for 30 minutes, then in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat oven to 325 Fahrenheit. 

  6. After cookie dough has been in the freezer and in the refrigerator, unwrap plastic and slice each log into thin cookie slices. 

  7. Place cookie slices on a parchment-lined ungreased baking sheet, spacing 2 inches apart. 

  8. Bake for about 12-15 minutes, don’t let the cookies get brown. 

  9. Cool cookies on baking sheet for 5 minutes, after that transfer cookies to wire rack to continue cooling. Using sifter, sprinkle cookies with powdered sugar.

  10. Store cookies in airtight container – they can last about 2 weeks.
Recipe Notes

The recipe is adapted from Epicurious

Nutrition Facts
Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 63 Calories from Fat 36
% Daily Value*
Fat 4g6%
Saturated Fat 2g13%
Cholesterol 8mg3%
Potassium 16mg0%
Carbohydrates 5g2%
Sugar 2g2%
Vitamin A 95IU2%
Vitamin C 0.2mg0%
Calcium 4mg0%
Iron 0.3mg2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Filed Under: Baking, Christmas, Cookies, Dessert, Hazelnuts, Nuts, Recipe, Shortbread Published: Dec 22, 2013 48 Comments

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  1. Jan Scott

    Jan 20, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    Hi, made these and they were so light and buttery and disappeared very quickly. I have a family member who can’t tolerate gluten, could I make using GF flour?

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