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Pie Crust Cookies

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword how to use pie crust, nutella cookies, pie crust cookies, Pie crust leftovers
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 20 minutes
1 hour

Ingredients

  • 1 Stick Unsalted Butter, cold (113 g / 4 oz)
  • 1 1/3 Cup Pastry flour of bleached flour (184 g / 6.5 oz)
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1/8 tsp Baking Powder
  • 3 - 3 1/2 TBS Ice water
  • 1 1/2 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
  • 1 Cup Nutella
  • 1 Egg beaten for coating

Instructions

  • Cut the butter into 3/4" cubes and wrap it with plastic wrap. Place butter in the freezer for a minimum of 30 min.
  • Sift the flour, baking powder and salt and place in a food processor.
  • Pulse the flour mix about 3 times.
  • Add the butter and pulse until the butter is the size of large peas.
  • Add the water and vinager and pulse until the butter has downsized to the size of small peas. The dough is ready when it comes together when piched.
  • Place the dough (it will look and have the textue of coarse corn meal) on a clean surface and bring it together with you hands. Do not knead it.
  • Flatten the dough into 6" disk, warp in a plastic wrap and place in the refrigarator for a minimum of 1 hour. (preferly over might).
  • Remove dough from the refigarator and roll it into 1/8" thick.
  • Using a cookie cutter cut the dough into circles and place each circle in a mold (or a mini cupcake tin).
  • Fill each mold with Nutell and decorate the top with your choice of crust design.
  • Place the mold back in the refrigarator for about 30 minutes.
  • While the cookies are in the refrigarator, preheat oven to 375F and place an oven rack at the lowest level.
  • Brush the cookies with egg wash and bake for about 20 minutes or just until the cookies look golden brown.
  • Allow cookies to completely cool before removing form the molds.