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The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap: Filled Sugar Cookies with Nutella, Maraschino Cherries and Honey Caramel

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Filled Sugar Cookies with Nutella, Maraschino Cherries and Honey Caramel

I have done lots of cookie swaps, but this was my first cyber exchange and it was great fun!  Each participant made 3 dozen cookies and sent 1 dozen each to 3 other participants.  Sponsored by Julie and Lindsay of thelittlekitchen.net and loveandoliveoil.comIn case you missed out or want more information, you can sign up to receive a notice about next year’s swap at http://eepurl.com/hsS-Y or search #fbcookieswap on Twitter.
I received my cookies from Kara at karaismochibunny.blogspot.com who made wonderful sugar cookies with roasted brown rice and tea leaves; Annakate at laaguacate.com who sent me some lovely lemon cookies; and some great chocolate cookies with peppermint marshmallow toppings from Vicki at wildeinthekitchen.blogspot.com.  We enjoyed them all (pretty much the same day they arrived) and thanks so much for sending them!
Green Tea and Lemon Cookies

Chocolate Cookies with Peppermint Marshmallow Tops

As usual, I was running behind and sent mine the last day – so sorry to the reciepients!  I had a great time making them and we did do a thorough job of taste testing before we mailed them.  Because of the mailing issue, it took me a while to decide but I ended up using my favorite sugar cookie recipe making them in a flower shaped cupcake pan filling them with nutella, maraschino cherries and honey caramel.
The basic recipe is one I use often:
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup butter softened
3 tsp almond extract
1 egg
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
Procedure:
1. Mix powdered sugar, butter, almond extract and egg in large bowl.  Stir in remaining ingredients except chocolate.  Dough will be thick, but should not be dry.
2. Divide dough in half. Roll each half into a log about 3 inches in diameter and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
3. Heat oven to 375ºF.
4. Remove rolls from refrigerator and slice into 1/2 inch rounds.
5. Place on ungreased cookie sheets 2 inches apart.
6. Bake 10-15 minutes or until edges are light brown. Remove from cookie sheet. Cool on wire rack.
For these, after making the basic dough to half I added 3/4 cup pecans in case some don’t like or allergic to nuts.  Instead of rolling, refrigerating and slicing the dough, I rolled small balls about 1/2 inch in diameter, flattened them and placed into the cupcake pan making a hole with my thumb.

Filled Holiday Sugar Cookies

Next I put in the filling:  Nutella, cherries or a small ball of caramel (if you don’t want to make your own, the wrapped soft caramels cut in 1/4ths would work fine).  I experimented with making a one layer thumbprint type cookie with the caramel but it bubbled out of its holes a little so it’s probably best to do a second “cover” layer on those too.
Filled Holiday Sugar Cookies - Nutella

Next I covered the filling with a second layer of cookie rolled and flattened like before. Make sure to gently seal around the edges if you want the filling not to show although it looks kind of neat when you can see the layers too so it is up to you.  For the cherry ones, I placed one cherry with no stem inside then stuck another with the stem into the top of the second layer.
Filled Holiday Sugar Cookies - Nutella

Then baked and drizzled them with white and dark chocolate.

7 thoughts on “The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap: Filled Sugar Cookies with Nutella, Maraschino Cherries and Honey Caramel

  1. Diana

    Oooh, I really want to try the filled cookies. They look amazing and FUN!

  2. Rufus' Food and Spirits Guide

    Oh wow, those all sound so exotic.

  3. frugalfeeding

    Oh wowee, they are so pretty. I’ve never made a filled cookie so I really should 😀

  4. Chris @ TheKeenanCookbook

    These were delicious! I loved the nutella filled ones best, but they were all wonderful! Thanks for sharing such great cookies, we enjoyed receiving them!

  5. Eri

    They look really good, great idea the nutela filling!

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  7. Carroll

    So Fun! These look great!

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