Homemade hazelnut cream filled chocolate cookies

Ingredients:
Cookies:
200 gm chocolate chips
100 gm unsalted butter
125 gm fine granulated sugar
1/2 C milk
1 egg
100 gm organic cacao
350 gm flour

 Hazelnut Cream
200 gm hazelnut
100 gm chocolate chips
1 Pack vanilla (I used 2tbsp homemade vanilla paste)
1/3 C of milk
2 Tbsp. cacao

Making:
Melt the chocolate chips in warm bath style (benmari)
In another bowl add melted butter, sugar and mix until it gets  creamy.
Add milk and egg and keep mixing
Add flour and cacao
And first start mixing all with spoon, then it may become ticker dough and transfer it on the board. Knead for a short time and roll (using rolling pin) into a 1/8-inch (little tinner than ½ cm) sheet. cut in circles (using a round 2.5-inch cookie cutter or with the edge of the 2.5-inch glass .
Place all the cookies on the baking sheet and bake not longer than 15 minutes.
Cookies maybe very soft right out of the oven
Carefully transfer onto the rack , let it cool down
Spread a Tbsp. Hazelnut cream on one cookie and place another cookie  on it making like sandwich.
 
Making Hazelnut Cream
Place the hazelnuts and cacao in the food processor
Make it very small crumbles
More you give pulse more hazelnuts oil release
Add ¾ Cup confectioner sugar
Give another couple more pulse.
If hazelnut cream is too thick add little milk as desired until mixture becomes smooth.  Use cold milk .


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12/2/ 2023