Heart Sugar Cookies with Nutella Filling

These Heart Sugar Cookies with Nutella Filling are the perfect Valentine Day treat to make with your kiddos. Cookie Recipes like this just wanna show a little love.

And, the best part is that the filling–totally makes the cookie an amazing and unique flavor with that chocolate and hazelnut that makes any dessert that much more amazing.

What You Need to Make Heart Sugar Cookies with Nutella Filling

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups all purpose flour + extra for rolling
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 heart-shaped cookie cutter, about 2 ½ inches at its widest portion
• 1 miniature heart-shaped cookie cutter, about 1 inch in size
• ¼ cup Nutella (or any hazelnut spread)
• 2 tbsp confectioners’ sugar, sifted

How to Make Heart Sugar Cookies with Nutella Filling

Cream together granulated sugar, butter, vanilla and egg until light and fluffy.

In a second bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.

Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients in 1/3 increments, mixing thoroughly between each increment.

Turn the cookie dough out onto a sheet of plastic wrap and ball it up, wrapping the cookie dough in the plastic wrap.

Refrigerate the cookie dough for one hour.

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Dust a clean working surface and rolling pin with flour. 

Roll out chilled cookie dough on this surface to ¼ inch thickness.

Cut out 14-20 large heart-shaped cookies with the bigger of the two heart-shaped cookie cutter. 

Place each cookie cut-out gently on the prepared baking sheets.

With the smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut a small heart from the center of half of the larger heart cookies.

Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes.

Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

Sprinkle confectioners’ sugar over the cookies with the tiny heart cut out.

Spread Nutella on each of the large heart cookies, leaving 1/4 inch around the edge of each cookie un-frosted.

Place one confectioners’ sugar-covered cookie on top of one Nutella-covered cookie. 

Repeat for all cookies and enjoy!

And that’s it! So easy, right?! But before you head off to the kitchen, let’s talk about some of the questions I get asked about making these cookies–that way you don’t run into any trouble.

WHAT IS THE SECRET TO SOFT COOKIES?

Really, there’s no secret, it’s all about the recipe, how long you bake the cookies, what amount of butter is in the recipe–oh, wait, so yeah, it is kind of a tricky thing sometimes.

But in all seriousness, you have to go into your cookies with a soft cookie in mind. Make sure your recipe isn’t calling itself “crispy”. That’s what’s kind of nice about these cookies. Like all good sugar cookies, they are stable and don’t spread, but they have a soft chewy center.

So, if you follow the recipe, these heart sugar cookies will be soft and perfect.

HOW DO YOU MAKE COOKIES SOFT AFTER BAKING?

Oh, so, you didn’t have such great luck ( following the recipe) with the cookies and now they’re kind of crisp? No sweat–don’t throw them away. They can be saved. Here are some of my favorite ways to get cookies to soften after they’ve been baked.

• Microwave your cookies for 10 seconds with a damp paper towel.
• Store your cookies in an airtight container with a slice of bread.
• Steam your cookies.

To me, the easiest way to keep your cookies moist and rescue hard cookies is to just store them overnight in an airtight container with a slice of bread. So simple, but works every time.

Plus, unlike microwaving or steaming, this won’t affect the Nutella filling at all.

Easy Valentine COOKIE RECIPES

• Creme Brûlée Cookies
• Easy Snickerdoodle Cookies
• Giving Tree Valentine Cookies
• Valentine Cake Mix Strawberry Cookies
• Valentine Cookie Bars
• Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies