White Hazelnut Spread No-Bake Cookies

I was excited to find natural white hazelnut spread (Nutella is chocolate hazelnut spread) in a store here.  I've had white nutella before, but it's usually not very natural. Full of sugar and palm oil.  This was the organic Asiago brand, with less sugar and no palm oils.  It's very tasty on it's own, and I wanted to incorporate it into my old fave- the no-bake cookie.  I used my Pistachio No-Bake recipe as a guide, only changing out the spread.  I added some almond extract and these were really good. If you can find white nutella, do try these.  (One can use chocolate nutella too.)

White Hazelnut Spread No-Bake Cookies
adapted from here

1 3/4 cups white sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white hazelnut spread
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract

1. Have hazelnut spread, oats, and vanilla ready to go (measure out spread and oats). In a medium, heavy saucepan, combine sugar, milk, and butter. Bring to a boil, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes (can cook for 1 minute + 45 seconds to make sure they set up). Remove from heat, and immediately stir in hazelnut spread, oats, vanilla and optional almond extract. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper. (I like using a cookie scoop.) Let cool until hardened.

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