Mini Nutella Cookie Cups

About these cookies, let me just say this... yum!  Steve & I made these together a couple of days before Christmas, and they were so good!  It was nice making them together, too.

You can visit the original source of this recipe here.  I found it at Daisy Chubb's Tea and Treats, via Pinterest (another one of my new favorite things).

Mini Nutella Cookie Cups

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
~Nutella (you'll need at least one jar)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease mini muffin pan.  Combine dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda) in small bowl and set aside.  Cream butter and both sugars in bowl until light, smooth and fluffy.  Beat in eggs and vanilla until fully incorporated.  Gradually add dry ingredients and mix until all the flour is mixed in.  Roll dough into balls about 1.5 inches thick.  Place them in the mini muffin tin and bake for 10-12 minutes.  When done, remove from oven and let sit for about 2 minutes.  Then make wells for the Nutella with a shot glass (or similar object).  Add about 1 tablespoon Nutella to each cup.  (This is where it was handy to be working together... I made the wells while Steve filled them.  And, by the way, our cookies came right out of the tin as I lifted the shot glass, so I immediately transferred them to wax paper to cool.)

Yield: about 48 cookies

~nikki