Clara's cookies (aka nutella filled cookies)

Clara, a good friend of mine from Spain, told me last time we met that she had tried this recipe (spanish only) but that she had swapped the chocolate chip cookies with nutella, and the results were amazing. She also told me that she had changed the method a bit to fill the cookies with the nutella instead of making a swirl or coating them with it. My cookies were not as good looking as hers but they were amazing too ^^ The trick appears to be to be generous with the nutella ;-)

This recipe yielded 16 cookies as they taste better if they're not too big.

Clara's cookies:

Ingredients:

100g brown sugar
40g white sugar
110g unsalted butter at room temperature
230g plain flour
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
Nutella at room temperature

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
2. Beat together the sugars with the softened butter till well mixed. Add the egg and the vanilla and beat again until you have an homogeneus paste.
3. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Slowly add the flour to the butter mixture until well combined.
5. Wrap the dough with cling film and let it chill in the fridge for at least one hour.
6. Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it till it's around 5mm thick. With a cookie cutter, or something similar, cut round shapes from it. Gather the scraps of dough together, roll it again and cut additional cookies out.
7. Fill the cut out cookies with a teaspoon of nutella each and close them over it.
8. Bake in the preheated oven for 8-12 minutes till they are light brown (be careful not to overbake them).
9. Remove he cookies from the pan and let them cool on a wire rack before storing them in an air tight container.