Chocolate Hazelnut Tassies Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese, sugar and lemon zest. Beat in flour. Shape into 36 balls. With floured fingers, press onto the bottom and up the sides of ungreased miniature muffin cups., For filling, in a small bowl, beat the Nutella, brown sugar, egg, butter and vanilla until blended. Stir in hazelnuts and chocolate chips. Fill prepared cups three-fourths full. , Bake at 375° for 16-18 minutes or until set. Cool on wire racks for 10 minutes. Carefully remove from pans to wire racks. Store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place the chocolate chips in a small bowl and place over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Stir occasionally until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth. Cool to room temperature.
• Grind the nuts in a food processor until pasty (the nuts will be stuck to the sides of work bowl), 1 minute. Scrape down the bowl with a rubber spatula. Add the condensed milk, honey and salt. Blend well, scraping down the bowl as needed. Add the cooled chocolate and pulse until combined. Transfer the spread to a small bowl.
• Serve with the toasts and sliced fruit. Cook's Note: The chocolate can also be melted in a microwave. Microwave the chocolate chips in a small microwave-safe bowl in 15-second intervals until the chocolate is very soft. Stir until melted and smooth.

Steps:

• Line an 8-inch baking dish with aluminum foil.
• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir sugar, vanilla extract, and salt into the melted butter; bring to a boil and cook and stir until the sugar dissolves, about 1 minute.
• Reduce heat to medium; add the peanut butter and chocolate-hazelnut spread. Cook and stir until smooth, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add the oats; stir to coat evenly. Dump the mixture into the prepared baking dish; spread into an even layer using a spatula or spoon.
• Allow the mixture to cool completely, at least 30 minutes. Remove from baking dish, lifting by the foil. Cut into bars to serve.

Steps:

• Puree nuts and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a food processor until mixture is the texture of peanut butter. Add sugar and chocolate; pulse until combined.
• Bring to room temperature before using.

Steps:

• Combine white sugar and raw sugar in a food processor or blender; process until pulverized. You may have to do this in batches to not burn the motor.
• Add hazelnuts to the sugar mixture in the food processor, and continue blending until a smooth cream forms. Add powdered milk and blend to combine. Add oil and blend again.
• Melt chocolate in a microwave-safe glass or ceramic bowl in 15-second intervals, stirring after each interval, 1 to 3 minutes total. Add to the cream in the food processor, and blend until everything is well combined. Pour into a glass jar and allow to cool before sealing and refrigerating.

Steps:

• Dough:.
• Beat butter, cream cheese, sugar and salt in large bowl until blended. Stir in flour (dough will be soft and sticky).
• Scrape dough onto sheet of plastic wrap. Using plastic as aid, shape dough into disk. Cover and chill until firm, at least 2 hours.
• Roll dough into 24 1-inch balls; place 1 dough ball in each of 24 mini muffin cups. Chill 15-20 minutes.
• Using floured fingertips, press dough over bottom and up sides of each muffin cup, forming a shell. Chill until ready to use, up to 1 day.
• Filling:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F Whisk first 5 filling ingredients in medium bowl until blended.
• Stir in almonds and chocolate morsels. Spoon filling into shells.
• Bake until crusts are golden brown and filling is set, 23-25 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes. Using small sharp knife, cut around each cookie to loosen, then turn onto rack and cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F and line 2 heavy large baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Finely chop the oats in a food processor.
• Transfer the oats to a medium bowl and mix in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Set aside.
• Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugars in a large bowl until fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs and the vanilla.
• Add the flour mixture and stir just until blended.
• Stir in the toffee bits, hazelnuts and chocolate chips.
• For each cookie, drop 1 rounded tablespoonsful of dough onto the sheet, spacing 1" apart (do not flatten the dough.).
• Bake until the cookies are golden (the cookies will flatten slightly), about 15 minutes.
• Cool the cookies on the baking sheets for 5 minutes.
• Transfer to a cooling rack and cool completely.
• Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Place hazelnuts in a single layer on a baking pan. Toast in oven until the skins are almost black, about 15 minutes. Wrap hot hazelnuts in a clean kitchen towel, and rub until most of the skins have come off. Discard skins, and place the hot hazelnuts in the bowl of a food processor.
• Process nuts, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally, until they have liquefied, about 5 minutes. Set the hazelnuts aside.
• Combine the condensed milk, chocolate chips, and honey in a heat-proof bowl or the top of a double boiler; set over a pan of simmering water. Stirring occasionally, heat until the chocolate chips have melted, about 3 minutes.
• Add the hot-chocolate mixture to the liquefied hazelnuts, and process until the mixture is smooth, about 5 minutes. Transfer the spread to an airtight container, and store, refrigerated, up to 1 month.