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This Nutella cookie recipe will change the way you enjoy Nutella moving forward! Made with just 3 ingredients, these soft and chewy cookies are naturally flourless and LOADED with chocolate flavor!
Nutella was a pantry staple growing up.
While we’d sometimes enjoy it on toast or bananas, most of the time we’d just eat it directly out of the jar with a spoon. Now that we are older, instead of eating it from the jar, we use this fabulous spread to make Nutella cookies.
Crisp edges, soft in the middle, and with plenty of chocolate chips throughout, these will be your new favorite cookie.They need just 3 ingredients, or 4 if you use add the extra chocolate (which we recommend). The cookie dough takes seconds to prepare and the cookies need just 10 minutes of baking time.
No mixers, no chill time, and no flour needed, these are one of the easiest cookies ever. Pair it with a coffee for an afternoon treat or enjoy a couple after dinner with some hot chocolate.
Ingredients needed
- Nutella: The beauty of these cookies is any chocolate hazelnut spread works. Use the classic Nutella or any other spread you like.
- Eggs: Room temperature eggs are key, not refrigerated ones. This affects how soft and crisp the cookies turn out to be.
- Almond flour: Blanched almond flour, not almond meal.
- Baking powder: Optional, but gives the cookies more stability.
- Chocolate chips: Optional, but highly recommended.
Making nutella cookies needs just one mixing bowl, a mixing spoon, and self restraint not to eat the cookie dough. The only thing to consider is that if you have time, chill the dough for 30 minutes before baking them. This will help them remain thicker and gooey in the middle. Here’s the basic idea for making these cookies (or see the recipe below for specifics):
- Mix: Add the nutella, eggs, baking powder and almond flour into a bowl and mix well, until a thick batter remains. Fold through the chocolate chips at the end.
- Shape: Using a cookie scoop, scoop out portions of the cookie dough and place them on a lined baking sheet, at least 2 inches apart. Using the back of a spoon, shape the portions of dough into a cookie shape.
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges become slightly firm.
These cookies will only work with Nutella. for a peanut butter version, try 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies.
Dietary and flavor variations
Nutella cookies should be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of what diet they follow! Here are tried and tested variations in case you need to make some substitutions:
- Cut the carbs by using sugar free Nutella (called Nutilight) and sugar free chocolate chips.
- Make them healthier by using a no added sugar chocolate hazelnut spread or chocolate almond butter.
- Swap the almond flour for either all purpose flour or white wholewheat flour.
- Make it eggless by trying out one of these egg substitutes.
- Add mix-ins like walnuts, cashews, or chopped hazelnuts.
Storage instructions
What is the best way to store Nutella cookies? Here are the best practices for cookie storage:
- Up on one week: Store at room temperature, covered. You can also keep them in a sealable container.
- 1-2 weeks: These cookies store well in the refrigerator, too. Unlike other cookies which should be thawed slightly, these can be enjoyed directly from the fridge.
- Up to 6 months: Place cookies in a ziplock bag and store it in the freezer for up to 6 months.
More Nutella recipes to try
Frequently Asked Questions
Nutella is a chocolate hazelnut spread derived in Italy. It’s sweet, chocolate-y, and with a subtle hazelnut flavor.
Nutella contains skim milk powder which is a dairy product (and therefore, not vegan friendly).
Chocolate almond butter or chocolate sunflower seed butter can replace Nutella in these cookies.
3 Ingredient Nutella Cookies (No flour!)
Ingredients
- 1 cup Nutella * See notes
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder optional
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl, add the Nutella, almond flour, baking soda, and egg and mix well. Fold through the chocolate chips.
- Lightly wet your hands and form 12 balls of cookie dough. Place them on the lined sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges are just firm.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool completely.
Such simple and divine cookies, Arman! I just had to feature them on All Gluten-Free Desserts! 🙂
Thanks for the recipe!
Shirley
Thank SO you for posting these. Especially the egg subs. I can no longer have eggs and miss them very much. But your cookies look like they will make me miss them less!
No worries at all, Darlene- Enjoy them 🙂
Arman,
These cookies look awesome. Your sister is one lucky girl!! And like Michelle, I want to see the photo you sent your sister of the hazelnut butter because I make homemade nut butters all the time, and while they don’t look all that amazing, I don’t think they’re repulsive. I’ve been known to eat copious almond butter right out of the work bowl of my food processor 🙂
Hahaha Aida, it was so bad…..Like probably something a dog would eat!
I want to see the picture you sent your sister!
Hahaha I’ll hunt it down…it was heinous!
As a nutella addict (I too would be found with nothing but a jar of Nutella and a spoon…sometimes not even the spoon), these are delicious!!! I couldn’t find hazelnuts #islandproblems, but I did find hazelnut flour. I added coconut oil and blended until it was the consistency of nut butter. Thank you!!!
OH wow, thanks so much for letting me know Brenna.
Not going to lie- Growing up, i’d nurse a jar of nutella over 3 days.
While I do love challenges, I’m no paleo and would never, ever set out on a 2-week challenge, part of which involved giving up nutella. As for your sister, well, her interactions with you seem quite normal for a brother-sister relationship – the only question is whether, if pressed by someone outside your family for her response to these cookies, she would give you credit for being the incredibly good (and thoughtful) brother that you are?:)
Hahahaha thanks Laura. She is one who would go out of her way NOT to credit me for anything 😉 The joys of being an older brother!
I love nutella and I’m always looking for other ways to use it!
Cheers, Pam! Try this out- Seriously takes NO time!
Arman! There you go rockin’ it out again! I love making hazelnut chocolate butter. Would you believe that am actually disgusted by Nutella? It tastes like overly sweet crappy frosting to me. These are WAY more my speed. Your sister doesn’t know how what she’s missing.
Thanks so much Sabrina- I’m not a huge fan of traditional nutella either- Unless eaten straight with a spoon 😉
what a nice brother you are! my “nutella” would be sriracha. and buffalo sauce. and chocolate. pinned these cookies, I should just make an “Arman TBMW” pinterest folder…
oh my gee Kristina if you don’t make sriracha nutella, I will personally omit your surroundings of jackfruit. Forever.
You had me at Nutella … and four ingredients! Seriously, these sound delicious … and they really couldn’t be any easier!
Thank you, Kimberly! So easy and so delicious! 15 minutes, I promise!
I love Home made Nutella. I have been known to eat it all before it makes it to the jar!
Lisa- You get so much respect for that! 😉