chocolate- hazelnut drop cookies

wanted to make something yummy for our boat dinner with all the neighbors tonight on the lake. i thought these would be a hit because all kids love chocolate and cookies!

recipe
1c butter, room temperature
1/4c plus 1c powdered sugar
1tsp vanilla
2c flour
1/2c nutella

preheat oven to 35o degrees. grease to baking pans. in an electric mixer, beat the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. then add the vanilla. gradually add in all the flour then the nutella. using a small cookie scoop, drop the batter onto the pans. bake for 10- 12minutes. cool completely then roll the cookies in the powdered sugar. store in an airtight container.

i've never made these before and they turned out really well -- light and buttery. the recipe comes from giada again (starting to really like her cookie recipes!). they are suppose to be relatively small cookies and i was able to get about 3dozen out of the batter. i took them out at 10minutes and made sure to cool completely before adding the sugar. great simple, chocolate cookies ... enjoy.

my last blog before i go down to school, so stay tuned until i'm back home for one of my fall breaks!