BROWN BUTTER ROSE BAKLAVA COOKIES.

Baklava is one of those desserts that are super addictive, once you have one, you want to keep going! This rolled phyllo pastry desserts are a Middle Eastern specialty that are typically filled with pistachios, assorted nuts, drenched in butter and are glazed in a honey or rose simple syrup. I thought to myself wouldn’t it be interesting to add this delicious crunchy, nutty, honey dessert into a cookie? The brown butter in the sugar cookie dough complements the nuttiness of the baklava and a touch of rose water adds a floral dimension. Chopped pistachio, chopped walnut, rose petals and a heaping scoop of chopped baklava get mixed in to create a sweet, fudgy studded sugar cookie.

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Dark Chocolate & Rose Cookies with Nutella Centers

Rich, deep and sensuous. Just a few adjectives to describe these lusciously chewy dark chocolate cookies. Shards of dark 70% gianduja chocolate get folded into a luxuriously chocolate sugar cookie dough and then get stuffed with a frozen Nutella dollop. Once baked, these chocolatey cookies brim and beam with warm chocolate puddles, centers and chasms. A showering of more chocolate, rose petals and flaky salt make them not only beautiful but texturally delightful. All you chocolate lover this one is for you! Grab your best chocolate and make yourself a batch.

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