Chocolate-Hazelnut Thumbprints

The recipe calls for 4.5oz "about a cup". 4.5oz is nowhere near a cup. I followed the latter part of the instruction and ruined the recipe.

The cookie part is a bit dry and slightly chalky, but the nutella and nuts provide good flavor. Was a fun recipe to make with kids.

Not sure what I did wrong. Usually all my stuff turns out great. I did use land o' lakes light butter. Maybe the increased water in the light butter was to blame, but the dough was way too sticky/runny to knead. I had to pour it into a 8x8 pan and make cookie bars. Taste is good, but not sure what went wrong???

Since the nuts wouldn't stick, I incorporated them into the dough, which worked well, and looked fine. I finished putting the Nutella in the thumbprints, and ate one. It tasted really good, but I do wish that something could have been added to the Nutella so that it would have become more of a fudge-like consistency for stacking. I make a lot of cookies ahead of Christmas, as I have time, and give them as gifts to those who come to our Christmas Eve party. I have these in the refrigerator now, hoping that they will get cold enough so that I can carefully layer them with parchment and stack them to store for Christmas. I think this is one big problem with these cookies for Christmas. I do want to say that I think folding the nuts into the dough really worked well, not only appearance wise, but also taste wise. I think it's a lot less work than coating with egg white. I gave four stars because of the nut problem that had to be solved, and the Nutella remaining soft. I tripled the recipe

The base is not overly sweet, and the Nutella adds a sweeter note. A great combination. We used the espresso and really liked the added depth - it's a great "grown-up" version of traditional thumbprints. I chopped the nuts in my mini-food processor, which made a mix of finer pieces and slightly chunkier, leaving the cookies well coated. Used the left-over egg whites to help the nuts stick as others recommended. Important to make a deep thumbprint before baking; I used a small coffee spoon to re-impress after baking, but then the cookies stuck to the pan a bit more, so in the end, I just swirled a dab of nutella using a toothpick to make a pretty design, as others suggested. They tasted great, and everyone loved them.