give your boyfriend boner cookies...

i don't typically spend much time in the kitchen...the boyfriend does all the cooking and for a while there i had myself convinced he liked doing the dishes and i was only in his way...clever, i know. 

well, after his excitement of the possibility of me baking cookies as a result of a super bowl bet, i thought to myself "self, he sure does a lot of nice shit for you...get your lazy ass in the kitchen and make that boy some cookies". 

so make cookies i did...and i made the shit out of them.

this boy of mine LOVES him some Nutella...so i set to work on some Giant Nutella Stuffed Cookies. 

ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all purpose Gold Medal flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
12 tablespoons Nutella (1 tablespoon per cookie)
Sea salt, for sprinkling on top of cookies
directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray two 6 count muffin top pans with non stick cooking spray. Set aside.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars until creamy and smooth, about 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla extract, beating until combined.

3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars until creamy and smooth, about 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla extract, beating until combined. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

4. Press a thin layer of cookie dough in the bottom of each muffin top cup. Add a tablespoon of Nutella into the center of each cookie. Cover each cookie with remaining cookie dough by carefully pressing the cookie dough over the Nutella. Make sure the Nutella is covered. Sprinkle cookies with sea salt.

5. Bake cookies for about 14 minutes or until browned around the edges, but still soft in the center. Let cookies cool for 10 minutes in the pan before transferring to cooling rack.

Note-if you don't have a muffin top pan, just make extra large cookies. Take a scoop of dough and flatten in the palm of your hand. Add a spoonful of Nutella into the center. Top with more dough and carefully roll into a large cookie dough ball. Place on a large baking sheet lined with a Silpat baking mat or parchment paper. Sprinkle with sea salt and bake.

***i used a Silpat baking mat and it worked amazingly!
one bite in and i received the inspiration behind the name of the post..."baby...i might have a boner from these cookies." such a romantic man i have :)

enjoy!!!

-bekka