Chocolate Hazelnut Nests / Christmas Thumbprint Cookies

With a dark chocolate and roasted hazelnut, everybody will rave over these amazing cookies.
These cookies, also known as bird’s nests, have been around for decades and get filled with many different toppings. Usually Christmas is perfect time to bake them, because they bring up choco-hazelnut amazing flavor.

Ingredients:

250 g ground biscuits
180 g roasted ground hazelnuts
150 g butter
150 g dark chocolate
6 TBSP sugar
2 dl water
130 g white chocolate

1. Process biscuits in a food processor until finely crushed.
2. Process roasted hazelnuts in a food processor.
3. Melt butter, dark chocolate, sugar and water in a cooking pot. Stir until boils and then set aside.
4. Add ground hazelnuts and biscuits in a still hot chocolate mixture and combine well using spoon.
5. After cool down, shape mixture into small balls. Dip every ball in a coconut flour (optionally). Place them on baking sheets lined with parchment paper and press thumb into center of each cookie, leaving an indentation.
5. Chill until ready to use. melt white chocolate and pipe swirls on top of the nests.

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