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Christmas recipe

Holiday Shortbread Houses with Nutella®

Bring a touch of whimsy and warmth to your Holiday biscuit platter

These adorable shortbread cookies are cut into charming house shapes and sandwiched around creamy Nutella®. A fun, festive twist on your traditional gingerbread house, just as fun to make as they are to eat.

Easy
20 min
Decorated shortbread cutouts with Nutella® hazelnut spread

INGREDIENTS for 20 servings

  • 1 1/3 cup flour

  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar

  • 7 tbsps of butter

  • Pinch of salt

  • 3/4 tsp gingerbread spice mix

  • 1/3 cup of Nutella® hazelnut spread

  • Cookie Cutter or a stencil made out of cardboard

HOW TO MAKE SHORTBREAD HOUSE COOKIES

  1. Decorated shortbread cutouts with Nutella® hazelnut spread - Step 1
    STEP 1

    In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together. Add the butter and knead for 1-2 minutes until the dough becomes pliable. You can knead with your hands or with a dough attachment on a stand or electric mixer.

  2. Decorated shortbread cutouts with Nutella® hazelnut spread - Step 2
    STEP 2

    Roll out the shortbread dough between 2 sheets of baking paper until it reaches a thickness of around 1/5 of an inch.

  3. Decorated shortbread cutouts with Nutella® hazelnut spread - Step 3
    STEP 3

    If you don’t have a cookie cutter, you can create your own cookie shape with cardboard. Cut your cardboard into the shape of a house (a triangle on top of a square) and use it as a stencil. Use a knife to cut around the stencil to create your shortbread cookie shapes. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

    Preheat the oven to 160°C (320°F) and position the baking rack in the middle of the oven. Transfer the dough shapes onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake for 10-11 minutes, remove from the oven and let them cool down on the tray.

  4. Decorated shortbread cutouts with Nutella® hazelnut spread - Step 4
    STEP 4

    Fill a piping bag fitted with a small nozzle (about 2 mm) with the Nutella®, pipe 5g (1 tsp) of Nutella® on half of the biscuits and assemble with the other half. You can also use piping bags to decorate your shortbread houses with details of windows, a roof and a door.

    If you want to turn your shortbread cookies into tree decorations, modify step 3 and use a piping nozzle to make small holes at the top of every dough shape. Once your biscuits are baked, sandwiched and decorated, string a ribbon though the holes, tie a knot and hang as decoration for all to admire!

Palm oil in Nutella®
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Cocoa in Nutella®
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