Cookie kisses: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipe for hazelnut and chocolate sandwich biscuits

Scrummy little chocolate sandwich biscuits for gifting or taking to a festive get-together

I used to think that homemade food gifts were a bit showoffy. At a time when most of us are frantically writing to-do lists and just trying to hold it all together, anyone who had the time to make presents only made the rest of us feel bad. Nowadays, though, I think homemade food gifts are the most brilliant and wonderful things. The time invested is really not that much to write home (or even to Santa) about, and we all need less “stuff”, right? Sugar and kisses, made from the comfort of home: how could a present be more perfect?

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