Nutella Biscuits

I LOVE NUTELLA!!

In fact, most people do. The only person I've met who doesn't like it has a nut allergy and I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't for the reaction she'd have she'd probably love it too.
I've experienced many a nutella-based recipe in my time - my brothers girlfriend makes a sublime nutella cheesecake but I'd never done my own experimenting. 
So, in a haze of post-bake off sadness, I reached for a jar of nutella and added it to my standard chocolate biscuit recipe. 
You'll need:
1 cup butter
2/3 of a cup soft brown sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1/3 cup nutella 
In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add the nutella and egg and beat until well combined. Mix the flour, cocoa and baking powder together in a bowl and gradually add this to the butter mix. Beat for a good few minutes until the dough is well mixed.

Split the dough in two and wrap each half in clingfilm. Form into disks and chill for an hour.

Preheat the oven to 180oC. Once chilled, roll out one of the chilled disks of dough to half a centimeter thick. Use any shaped cutters you like and place the shapes onto lined baking sheets.

Bake for fifteen minutes. The biscuits will feel soft but will crisp up as they cool.

I felt like being a bit adventurous with my biscuits so I finely chopped some hazelnuts I had left from Christmas and mixed them with the remaining nutella in my jar. I used this mix of deliciousness to sandwich half the biscuits together.

The other half are decorated with a little melted mink chocolate and some more chopped hazelnuts.

Now for the remaining dough. Roll out, cut and bake as before. Then to sandwich them, make up a small batch of thick chocolate butter cream, like you'd get in a bourbon.
100g icing sugar

30g icing sugar

10g cocoa powder

All mixed together. Arrange the biscuits so that they match up in pairs. Use 3/4 of the using to pipe a ring if icing onto half the biscuits and sandwich with a plain one. 

Mix the remaining 1/4 of icing with a tablespoon of chopped, toasted hazelnuts. Spread a small about of the mix on the top of each biscuit sandwich. 

Now melt 100g of dark chocolate over a bain Marie. Dip the top of the iced biscuit into the chocolate and leave to set. Et voilà- biscuits of joy!