Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Crisps

Total Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups butter, softened
• 1 1/3 cups icing sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup unbleached hazelnuts, toasted, roughly ground
• semi-sweet chocolate square
• hazelnuts
• additional icing sugar (optional)

Recipe

• 1 sift together flour and salt. cream butter; gradually beat in sugar and vanilla. gradually add dry ingredients to creamed mixture; blend until smoothly combined.
• 2 stir in nuts. form into 1-inch balls. place 1 dozen at a time on ungreased cookie sheet. flatten to round about 2-inch diameter with bottom of glass dipped in flour.
• 3 bake at 325f for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. dip half of each cookie in melted chocolate. garnish with whole hazelnuts. let stand on wire rack until chocolate sets.