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You are here: Home / Recipe Categories / Desserts / Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookies {gluten free + vegan}

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookies {gluten free + vegan}

21 Novby Amy23

Prep Time: 5m
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Total Time: 15m
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Gluten free
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Vegetarian
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Vegan

These Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are made with very clean simple ingredients that leave you with an elegant and simple cookie to prepare. They are gluten-free and vegan.

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com

Are you ready for Turkey day?

I went to the grocery store yesterday……. yep, not the brightest idea.

First off the temperature here in Cincinnati was 76° on Friday and yesterday we had snow flurries and a wind chill of 31°. That is awful enough, but because half the known population of Cincinnati was at my local Kroger yesterday morning I had to park in Syberia because there were no parking spots left.  Of course, when I left my house my brain was remembering Friday weather and I did not dress appropriately for the long walk.

Let me just say ouch!

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com

Then once I got into the store, there was maybe only 3 green beans left for sale, there was literally one sweet potato left. ONE! What can you do with one sweet potato?

They did have plenty of fresh turkey’s and one in the size I needed not a gargantuan bird that was pumped full of steroids, but an actual organic free range turkey in a normal respectable size.  Shocking I know, but I was quite pleased.

They had enough butter, which last year I remember my Kroger ran out of the butter brand I like the week before Thanksgiving.  I was clearly scarred from the experience as I remember something so remote and I am writing to you about now.  Don’t judge I am a foodie girl remember!

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com

Once I had my cart filled I headed to the front of the store ready to check out and head home to store all my turkey day goodies, to be shocked once again that every register was open {never seen that before} and the lines were six to seven carts deep.  You know that TV screen your grocery hangs from the ceiling alerting you to the wait time in each line so you can make sure you jump in the fastest lane. Mine was telling me the fastest wait time was in isle 11 at a speedy 30 minutes.

I am not kidding 30 minutes wait in the check out line. 30 minutes!

Now I don’t think I waited that long, but I waited long enough.

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com

Needless to say, I was ready to head home.  I pushed my cart of goodies back out to Syberia to load up in my car. By the time I was finished I had tears streaming down my face from the wind and I had lost feeling in a few of my fingers. I got in my car with a sigh, pumped the heat headed home and about half way there I remembered I left a bag of groceries on the bottom of my cart.  It may or may not contained my potatoes. Sigh……

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com

So are you wondering what I did to cheer myself up after the exhausting and upsetting grocery excursion? I made cookies. Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, which is what any good respecting chocolate loving lady like myself would do! Am I correct?

These cookies and that was the second time I made these. The recipe is super simple to prepare and the second time around I added way more ganache in the center because I deserved extra ganache!

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com

WHY YOU WANT TO MAKE THESE HAZELNUT CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES.

You want to add these cookies to your holiday baking tray.  I think hazelnuts as the quintessential holiday nut, I am not sure why I believe that, but I do.

I don’t have any other holiday cookie recipe that I make with a regularity that uses hazelnuts, so this is a great additional flavor to the pine nut, and almond paste cookie flavors.  It is a quick and clean recipe only taking minutes to prepare. You only need a food processor or blender if you are making your own hazelnut flour, a few bowls, and a baking sheet.

Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com
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Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookies adapted from Donna Hay recipe

Servings 18
Author Amy Stafford

Ingredients

Dry ingredients:

  • 1 cup all-purpose gluten-free flour
  • 3/4 cup hazelnut flour place whole hazelnuts in food processor and process until small sand like consistency

Wet ingredients:

  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
  • 1/3 cup coconut oil melted

Ganache:

  • 2 tablespoons almond butter
  • 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
  • 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips {60% cocoa}

Instructions

Cookie:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Line baking sheet with parchment
  3. Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl, whisk to combine
  4. Whisk together wet ingredients and slowly pour into dry ingredients stirring until evenly blended.
  5. Form dough into teaspoon size balls and gently flatten on a baking sheet.
  6. Bake for 14-15 minutes or until cookies just starts to brown around edges.
  7. Remove and place on a rack to cool.
  8. Continue with remaining dough.
  9. While cookies are baking make the ganache.
  10. Combine ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and cook for 45-50 seconds, remove and stir to blend completely. Set aside and the mixture will thicken.

Recipe Notes

Store cookies in airtight container for 3-5 days.

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Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Recipe gluten free vegan | ahealthylifeforme.com

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  1. Rachel @ Baked by Rachel says

    November 21, 2016 at 6:44 am

    These look amazing! I wish I could try one right now!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:35 am

      I wish I could push one through the monitor right to you Rachel.

      Reply
  2. Erin @ Texanerin Baking says

    November 21, 2016 at 9:22 am

    I have never seen monitors like that at the grocery store! Are they super new? I’m intrigued. 😀 Love these cookies!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:35 am

      They are not new here in Cincinnati Erin. Kroger has them but I don’t know if anyone ever pays any attention. Except when the wait is 30 minutes 😉

      Reply
  3. Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife says

    November 21, 2016 at 12:02 pm

    These cookies look like the perfect fall treat! My whole family would eat them up so quickly, I know it!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:34 am

      Thanks, Marlynn.

      Reply
  4. Erin @ The Speckled Palate says

    November 21, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Oh my! These Hazelnut Chocolate Sandwich Cookies look like they would cure a lot of sadness, including the grocery store drama you endured. (Thanksgiving week grocery shopping is the WORST!) Here’s to more cookies and less stress this holiday season!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:33 am

      I agree Erin, let’s eat cookies and de-stress.

      Reply
  5. Meg @ With Salt and Wit says

    November 21, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    Do you think I could have this for lunch and count it as a sandwich!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:32 am

      Of course! LOL

      Reply
  6. Cynthia | What A Girl Eats says

    November 22, 2016 at 2:32 am

    I have never used hazelnut flour for baking before, but what not? They sound fantastic!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:32 am

      It is a great nut flour to use if you like the flavor of hazelnut! Go for it!

      Reply
  7. katerina @ diethood.com says

    November 22, 2016 at 8:37 am

    OMG!! These are sooo gorgeous!! I can’t wait to try them!!

    Reply
  8. Cookin Canuck says

    November 22, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Thanksgiving food shopping is always crazy! All the more reason to come back home to a cup of tea and one of these sandwich cookies. Love the hazelnut-chocolate combo!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:31 am

      Thank you Dara.

      Reply
  9. Carrie @Frugal Foodie Mama says

    November 22, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    Mannnnnn! That is one rough grocery shopping trip! You definitely deserved a few of these cookies after all that. 😉

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:31 am

      LOL thanks Carrie.

      Reply
  10. Krista says

    November 22, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Yum! These look delicious! I need to make them!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:30 am

      Enjoy Krista.

      Reply
  11. Natasha @ Salt & Lavender says

    November 23, 2016 at 10:11 am

    I think these cookies would put anyone in a good mood! I love how easy they are, and they look so tasty.

    Reply
    • Amy says

      November 24, 2016 at 6:30 am

      Thanks Natasha.

      Reply
  12. Sarah Walker Caron (Sarah's Cucina Bella) says

    December 9, 2016 at 6:03 am

    These cookies would certainly cheer me up too. They look amazing!

    Reply
    • Amy says

      December 10, 2016 at 7:40 am

      Thanks Sarah.

      Reply

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