Nutella Tarts

Ingredients

  • 1/2 Cup or 115g of Unsalted Butter, Softened at Room Temperature
  • 1 and 1/2 Cup or 180g of All-Purpose / Plain Flour (and extra for flouring the surface)
  • 2 Tablespoon or 35g of Granulated White Sugar
  • 2 Tablespoon or 20g of Milk Powder (Optional)
  • 1 Egg Yolk
  • 1/4 Tsp or 1.4g of Table Salt
  • 1 Tsp or 5ml Vanilla Essence
  • 300g of Nutella
  • 2 tbsp water

Instructions

  1. Cream together softened butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
  2. Then, add in salt, egg and vanilla before mixing well.
  3. Sift the flour and milk powder.
  4. Next, fold in the dry ingredients into the mixture containing the well-mixed butter, sugar and egg yolk.
  5. Once completed, refrigerate the batter for 25 minutes. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 160 degrees C (or 325F).
  6. Then, flour a clearn surface and roll out the dough until about 0.5cm thickness.
  7. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the dough and transfer it to baking tray.
  8. Bake for about 12min 45 to 13min 45s or until it is starting to brown on the edges.
  9. Leave to cool for about 30 minutes.
  10. Then, pipe your Nutella filling over the cookie. These filling will not expand.
  11. Bake an additional 8-10 minutes at 140 degrees C. If it cracks or bubbles, lower the temperature to 120C – 130C.