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Brown butter, check. Sea salt, check. Chocolate Chip Cookie, check. Nutella and dulce de leche stuffed cookies, heaven. You absolutely must try these!

Table of Contents
- How to Make Nutella and Dulce De Leche Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Do you Have to Use Brown Butter?
- How to Brown Butter
- What Are the Brown Specks in Brown Butter?
- Can you freeze Nutella and Dulce de Leche Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies?
- Which Cookie Recipe Should I Use?
- What is Dulce De Leche?
- More COOKIE RECIPES You’re Going to Love:
- Watch How These Cookies are Made…
- Million Dollar Cookies Recipe
Brown Butter, Chocolate Chip Cookies stuffed with nutella and topped with sea salt. It was a delicious cookie, but then we made nutella and dulce de leche stuffed chocolate chip cookies and Cade was sold, actually I was too!
How to Make Nutella and Dulce De Leche Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Make your cookie dough with browned butter. Then you pop it in the fridge for a bit and then shape the dough.

- Next, I flattened a dough into a small bowl shape, added nutella, a nice big ol’ heaping tablespoon depending on the size of your cookies.

- Then dulce de leche in the same way.

- Add another bowl shaped dough on top and pinch the edges closed. I mean, just watch these beauties get made!

- Bake and sprinkle with sea salt! I’ve changed the method so the video is using the brown butter and not thick chocolate chip cookie so you’ll see I don’t make a big bowl like the photos, but instead I have to press the dough out and use less filling.
Do you Have to Use Brown Butter?
Nope! If browning butter is intimidating or you don’t have time, that’s ok, just use the same amount of softened butter. The cookies will turn out bigger and fluffier but that’s not a bad thing. In fact it’s what we did in our new photos for the cookie that isn’t split open on the plate. Either method works.

Why Brown Butter?
Browning the butter gives a more rich, buttery taste that is absolutely incredible! It brings out a warmth and nuttiness that is just to die for!
How to Brown Butter
- Place the butter in your stainless steel or light pan. Try to avoid a black nonstick as it’s harder to see when the butter is brown and doesn’t brown the butter the same.
- Turn the heat onto medium. Medium heat ensures the butter cooks evenly, an important factor as we don’tn want to burn the butter.
- Begin stirring the butter as it melts. Watch for the melted butter to begin to foam and sizzle around the edges. Keep stirring.
- In about 5-8 minutes from the beginning of cooking (depending on the amount of butter you used), the butter will begin to smell buttery, nutty and look a golden brown. The foam will slightly subside and the milk solids on the bottom of the pan will toast into flecks of brown.
- Use a rubber spatula to scrape the butter into a bowl to cool down.
What Are the Brown Specks in Brown Butter?
Brown specks in brown butter are toasted milk solids. This is where you get a lot of flavor so do not get rid of them! In fact, use a spatula to scrape them into your bowl with the butter to cool.
Can you freeze Nutella and Dulce de Leche Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies?
These Ooey Gooey Nutella and Dulce de Leche Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies can be frozen before or after baking. Just scoop dough balls into a freezer bag, press out the air and freeze for up to 3 weeks.
Cooked cookies can be frozen using the same method for 1-2 weeks.
OR! I prefer to use our Food Saver which keeps them good for up to 6 months because it is a vacuum sealer! I am obsessed with ours!
His new favorite cookie and I can totally see why he likes this recipe. It’s probably the most amazing cookie ever.
Which Cookie Recipe Should I Use?
We list a cookie recipe but everyone likes different cookies. We’ve used our classic brown butter chocolate chip cookie recipe below instead of our thick cookie recipe and while a little less nutella and dulce de leche has to be added because they aren’t huge it is actually really crazy delicious and Cade’s preferred cookie base.

What is Dulce De Leche?
Dulce de Leche is a traditional Argentinian dessert made by caramelizing the sugar in milk. You can make homemade dulce de leche if you can’t find it in the Latin American section of your store.
I have no words. I mean that, it’s just incredible. Gosh, it’s good. In a pinch you could use any cookie dough you’d like.
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- NY Times BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
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- All our COOKIE RECIPES here!
Watch How These Cookies are Made…








Oh these do look heavenly Carrian! Browned butter? Yum! Can I just say what an absolute pleasure it was to meet you in Austin – you are absolutely the sweetest person ever! Honestly, I adored you before but now it’s on a entirely new level 🙂 I hope we can catch up at another conference some time soon!
You ladies are so adorable! Glad I got to see you in Austin and chat a bit, you’re the sweetest.
Oh, and if I win the Lasik, I’m going to show up to your house and force you to make these cookies for me.
These cookies look so good!
These cookies look so amazing! Browned butter is my favorite thing ever!
And, I just had to say that I so enjoyed meeting you at BHF. You are just so sweet and friendly and you’re now possibly one of my new favorite people. That’s not creepy or anything, right?
Wow! I’ve made the nutella stuffed cookies but these look even better. Didn’t think that was possible!
I’m so jealous you got to meet so many awesome bloggers!!! Monique is like queen of amazing cookies and I loooove how you just put a lil dulce de leche twist on these!
So glad you had a great weekend and got to hang out with those lovely ladies! And now I wanna hang out with a big double batch of these cookies. WOWZA. 🙂
Wow, it looks like a fun time was had in Austin! I can’t wait to go next year. And these cookies look absolutely fantastic!
Seriously these look divine!! You are my favorite, so glad I got to travel and room with ya!! XOXO
oh my gooshhh! Have Mercy! LOL (got that line from you!) These are amazing and delicious! What an awesome cookie!
Austin looks like so much fun! I wish I could have been there!