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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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Watch How These Cookies are Made…
Million Dollar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Butter, unsalted, 2 sticks
- 2 1/3 Cups Flour
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 Cup White Sugar
- 1 Cup Light Brown Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
- 2 Large Eggs
- 3/4 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips, we prefer ghirardelli
- 3/4 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Nutella
- Dulce de Leche
- Sea Salt
Instructions
- In a large skillet over medium heat, add the butter and cook, stirring slowly with a whisk until golden, nutty scented and foamy, about 3-5 minutes. Set aside to cool.1 Cup Butter
- Meanwhile, mix the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl.2 1/3 Cups Flour, 1/4 teaspoon Salt, 1 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
- Add the sugar and brown sugar to a standing mixer and add the browned butter. Mix for 2 minutes to properly combine the sugar mixture. Add the vanilla and mix again. Finally add the egg and egg yolk and mix for a few seconds or until the egg is incorporated. Add the flour bowl contents and mix for 30-60 seconds before adding the chocolate chips.1/2 Cup White Sugar, 1 Cup Light Brown Sugar, 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla, 2 Large Eggs, 3/4 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips, 3/4 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Place a large sheet of saran wrap on the counter and dump out the dough. Form the dough into a long log and cover tightly with saran wrap. Refrigerate the dough 30 minutes.
- Slice the dough into circles to make it easier to flatten.
- Meanwhile, heat the oven to 350 and line a few baking sheets with parchment paper or Silpat mats.
- Press a ball of the dough in the palm of your hand and place 1/2 teaspoon of nutella and 1/2 teaspoon of dulce de leche on the dough. Wrap the dough over the filling and shape into a ball. Place on baking sheets and bake for 9-10 minutes.Nutella, Dulce de Leche
- Remove from the oven and immediately sprinkle with a little sea salt. Allow to cool for a minute or two before placing on a cooling rack.Sea Salt
Recipe Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Everyone is always raving about these cookies. A little messy to make but totally worth it.
Aren’t they a dream come true?! It can be a little messy to make but once you’ve done it a few time, you get into a groove and it’s not so bad!
These cookies are absolutely phenomenal! WOW !!! I’ve always wanted to bake Nutella stuffed cookies & this recipe did not disappoint. The browned butter really made a huge difference, and this dough was extremely easy to work with. It wasn’t overly sticky or brittle. Definitely freezing the Nutella droplets before your stuff your cookies makes the task less messy. Thank you so much for such a well-written recipe !!!
These are the absolute BEST cookies we have ever tasted!!!! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe. I love to bake and I get requests for these now ALL the time!
Aren’t they just heaven?! Thank you so much for the feedback!
I’ve made these twice (both times without stuffing – we don’t care for Nutella). The cookie is absolutely amazing but over the weekend when I made them the second time, I noticed that the ingredients call for 2 eggs but the instructions say to add egg & egg yolk. I tried it that way the 2nd time and noticed they were much more dry.
Which is correct?
It should be 1 egg + 1 egg yolk. Be sure to let the browned butter cool slightly and the refrigeration is essential. The dough is dry at first, but after refrigeration, it is perfect.
Is the dough suppose to be super crumbly or did I mess up somewhere in the dough making process?
The cookies were good and turned out delicious and beautiful, but they were very hard to form for me. Not sure if it was suppose to be that way though.
Cookies 10/10. A big hit at my company’s holiday cookie exchange.
No, it shouldn’t be crumbly at all. I’m so glad they still turned out yummy! It’s hard to go wrong with Nutella and dulce de leche I guess!
Mine were super crumbly too…
How many cookies does this recipe usually make?
This makes 2 dozen. Happy eating! 🙂
Amazingly, no one in the other blog’s content, this is what I was looking for. Very complete and useful.
Yay! So glad you found what you are looking for!
HEllo i am struggling a bit with these – i seem to have followed the recipe correctly and the dough is good, however during cooking the dulche de leche sinks to the bottom and leaks out? The dough forms a solid ball around it but its being spoiled by the leaking even though its encased. Any ideas? X
Hi lynne,
There must be a crack it is leaking out of or the dough is too warm when rolling the balls. Try using a thick piece of dough in the palm of your hand, followed by filling and then a little dough on top which you can then pinch closed and then bake. It would look a bit like a pie
Hey there! I’m a little confused after reading through the comments – someone asked about Greek yogurt, another mentioned one egg and one egg yolk, but the recipe above does not include the yogurt and indicates 2 whole eggs. Or am I missing something? Thanks for your help!
There was an older recipe years ago and we’ve updated it. 🙂
These look great! Do you think if I followed the steps all the way through encasing the dulce de leche/nutella in the dough and then froze the dough balls, it would be OK? I love having cookie dough balls waiting in the freezer to bake up when I’m craving something warm and gooey! I usually just bake from frozen – hoping these would work the same!
Yes, we do it all the time!