Kinder Bueno Cookies!
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Soft, gooey and delicious Kinder Bueno cookies, stuffed with Kinder chocolate, and topped with Kinder Bueno!
Let’s begin this recipe post by saying, I LOVE THESE COOKIES. I love all cookies, they’re one of my favourite types of bakes ever, but oh holy gee these are a whole new kettle of fish. I am completely obsessed. I have been posting and loving cookies since the beginning of my blogging career, but this year has definitely seen an increase in the cookie love.
My NYC chocolate chip cookies are the best thing I have posted this year, and I believe my most highly rated recipe ever as well! Along with those, my Kinder Bueno cookie bars have been insanely popular for so long, and so many of you bake these every single day. It blows my mind slightly, but honestly every single day I will be tagged in a post on Instagram, or Facebook or sent an email… and you guys adore them!
Kinder Bueno cookies
Because of the love of both of these cookie related recipes, I wanted to create a combined epic cookie that I know all the Kinder lovers will adore. Say hello to this recipe… Kinder Bueno cookies. Oh. My. YUM.
So I started this recipe by comparing the two recipes above, and they are very very similar as it is already, so making a combined Kinder Bueno cookie version is quite easy! All of my cookie recipes have very major similarities because I don’t like to mess with something I love – and why would you?!
So these cookies are the same base recipe as the NYC chocolate chip cookies but replacing the milk and dark chocolate chips with the Kinder chocolate. The Kinder chocolate I am referring to here is NOT Kinder Bueno! You want the smaller chocolate bars, with the white filling (see the photos for reference!).
Chocolate
I use the Kinder chocolate in the cookie, as it gives the cookie the flavour and also the gooeyness. You can use 150g Kinder chocolate, and 150g chocolate chips/chunks – or all Kinder like I have! I love my cookies really chocolatey so I used 300g total.
You can add in more if you want, or less (because some people contrary to popular belief don’t like their cookies too chocolatey) – but that’s up to you! Feel free to adapt it however you want. The reason I didn’t use Kinder Bueno inside the cookie is that it’s quite bulky. This doesn’t matter in the Kinder Bueno cookie bars, but I preferred it without for the cookies! You can, of course, add in some Kinder Bueno pieces if you want, however! I would use 150g kinder chocolate, and 100g Kinder Bueno!
Portion, freeze and bake
Instead, you portion the cookie dough, freeze for 30 minutes (or fridge for 60 minutes), and then bake. Once taken out of the oven, add on the Kinder Bueno. This keeps the wafer crispy, makes a great decoration – and it’s the ideal solution!
The good thing about this cookie dough is that it can freeze raw for up to 3 months – which means, make a big batch, and freeze, and have fresh warm cookies on demand. The only difference is that they can take a couple of minutes longer to bake… but that’s it.
Dry ingredients
If you want to swap the sugars, I recommend using all granulated sugar if you don’t have light brown, or all light brown if you don’t have granulated. I tend to avoid caster sugar in my cookies these days. Dark brown sugar can be used too, but that makes the cookie dough darker and more caramel-like (no bad thing!)
I use plain flour with baking powder for these, but if you want to use self raising you can – swap the flours, leave out the baking powder, but still use the bicarbonate of soda. Bicarbonate and baking powder are different things and they are interchangeable. They react to different ingredients and work differently, which is why the two are in the recipe – so make sure you use both.
Stuffed cookies
Finally… LOOK AT THESE STUFFED COOKIES BELOW! So, a lot of you have heard of Kinderella spread, or white chocolate hazelnut spread as it’s sometimes known… and it’s incredible. It’s like the middle of a Kinder Bueno. You can get it from places such as Black Milk Cereal, Morrisons, or other places – and oh my days.
Freeze heaped teaspoons of the spread (like in my Nutella stuffed cookies) for at least an hour or so and wrap your cookie dough around the spread. Then, chill the stuffed cookie balls for the 30-6o minutes. Bake like the recipe states, and you will have a gooey epic centre that makes it, even more, Kinder Bueno themed!! ENJOY!
Kinder Bueno Cookies!
Ingredients
- 125 g unsalted butter
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 75 g white granulated sugar
- 1 medium egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 300 g plain flour
- 1 + 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 300 g Kinder chocolate (chopped)
- 3 Kinder Bueno (each bar halved to make 12)
Instructions
- Add the butter and sugars to a bowl and beat until creamy
- Add in the egg, and beat again. If using vanilla, add it in now
- Add in the plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, and salt and beat until a cookie dough is formed
- Add in the kinder chocolate and beat until it is distributed well
- Weigh the cookies out into twelve cookie dough balls - they are about 80g each
- Once they are rolled into balls, put the cookie dough in the freezer for at least 30 minutes, or in the fridge for an hour or so
- Whilst the cookie dough is chilling, preheat your oven to 180C Fan, or 200C regular! If your oven runs hot, go for 160C-170c.
- Take the cookies out of the freezer/fridge and put onto two lined baking trays. I put four cookies per tray
- Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
- Once baked, carefully push the kinder bueno into the top of the cookies and leave the cookies to cool on the tray for at least 30 minutes, as they will continue to bake whilst cooling
- The kinder bueno chocolate can melt slightly, so these will be soft until the cookies have cooled fully.
- ENJOY!
Notes
- These will last for 4-5+ days once baked!
- The Kinder Bueno on top is optional, but delicious!
- You can freeze the raw cookie dough for 3 months, and bake from frozen if you don't want to bake the entire batch! If you are baking from frozen, bake for 12-14 minutes.
- You can use chocolate chips/chunks in place of the kinder chocolate.
- If you want a lovely texture - you can add in 1 level tbsp of cornflour, and take out 25g of the flour!
- If you can't access one of the sugars, use all of the other one - i.e. all granulated, or all light brown sugar. Using other sugars can change the texture.
- You can make the cookies 120g each, and bake for 12-14 minutes, or smaller at 60g each and bake for 9 minutes.
- If you want to stuff the cookies
- Freeze heaped teaspoons of spread.
- Wrap the cookie dough around the frozen spread, and chill the cookies like normal.
- Bake the cookies like the recipe!
ENJOY!
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Hi Jane, I have made your NYC Cookies so many times and they’re amazing so thought I would give these a go. I have doubled the quantity as needing to make a lot however the dough seems crumbly. I have used 2 medium eggs. I know the recipe says 2 medium/large eggs for 24 cookies however should I use 3 medium eggs instead to help? In baking before, I know you have to start adding extra eggs if going over 2/3 using medium rather than large?
Hope you can help
Thanks 😊
The dough is the same as the NYC cookies, which I’ve made a double batch of before, and only needed the two. It depends though as your ‘medium’ could’ve been on the smaller side! You can add a splash of milk to just bring it together xx
I made these using all white sugar and they were perfect. Then I made them again using brown sugar and white sugar and the mixture was very sticky, even after adding a bit more flour. Is this normal? The end result was fine, it was just the mixture that was really sticky.
It might purely be the weather if you didn’t change anything else as the type of sugar wouldn’t cause that xx
Hi! Do you recommend to use a stand mixer or can i do it by hand?
And if it is with the stand mixer, i use the whisk attachment?
Btw, it looks sooo great!
If using a stand mixer, use the beater attachment! xx
Hi Jane ! How long will the dough keep in the fridge? I’m waiting for my Kinderella to arrive but want to make some without today! X
I would say maximum 48 hours in the fridge xx
Hi Jane, probably a silly question! I can see you roll the dough into small balls before chilling… would you then squash them a little when placing them on the tray, or will they naturally flatten during baking?
You just lightly roll them into the dough ball, and then bake – you can flatten them yourself if you want, but I don’t x
Is there any advantage of using plain flour and baking powder over self raising flour, or does it have exactly the same effect?
It’s not the exact same results no. Ideally the plain flour is used!
Can you reheat the cookies once cooled so the chocolate goes gooey?
Yes! You can easily re-heat one cookie in the microwave if you have one, or about 2-3 minutes in the oven!
Thank you for the recipe! This is such a daft question but would I be able to freeze mixture but the stuffed version, and if so would it have the same cooking time?
Thank you so much! X
Yes – so freezing the raw dough for a long time will be fine, even with the stuffed centre – the baking time is a couple minutes more to counteract it, but stuffed cookies are best served warm anyway!
Hi Jane for the stuffed version do we still freeze the whole cookie before baking and do we follow this recipe or the Nutella one thankyou
Hey, as mentioned on the post you freeze the spread, and then wrap the cookie around it and follow the steps – the only difference is needing to put the frozen spread in the middle of the cookie dough x
Amazing recipe! I had been looking for this recipe since a long time. Thanks for sharing it.
hi question, do you roll the dough into balls before you put them in the fridge?
Yes, I do!
Can you recommend an alternative to using eggs in this recipe?
Many egg substitutes would work such as mashed banana, applesauce, flaxseed..!
Hi, I made these last week and they were a hit! So much so that my nephew wants me to make a giant one for his birthday, do you have any tips on making a giant cookie using this recipe?
Thank you 🙂
Have a look at my kinder bueno cookie bar recipe as that is already a giant cookie, just in a square tin (it makes a 10″round) x
These are some of the best cookies I have ever made!
Ahh yay! So glad you liked them!
These are really good! All of your NYC cookies are amazing. We now always have some in the freezer. The red velvet ones are our absolute favourite. Thanks for the great recipes.
So glad you like them!! X