Are you in love with nutella? well here are three simple delicious recipes to spice it up a bit.
1. Nutella Cookies
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter (softened)
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
approx. 26 oz nutella (one large jar)
1 cup chopped hazelnuts
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions:
1. In one bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
2. In the bowl of a mixer, cream the butter and the two sugars until all is integrated and fluffy.
3. Mix in the Nutella, followed by the chopped hazelnuts. Beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla.
4 Add the flour to the mixing bowl in three increments, integrating each one before adding the next.
5. Chill dough while oven preheats to 350°F Scoop the dough into balls and bake for about 10 minutes.
2. Nutella Brownies
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, unsalted
2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
4 large eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup of cocoa powder
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup Nutella
1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips
Topping
Nutella
White chcolate chips
Mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a medium bowl sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Then set the bowl aside.
On low heat, melt the butter sticks in a small pot. Then add the vanilla and sugar while stirring the mixture until well combined. Remove the pot from the heat and allow to cool. I poured the butter/sugar mixture into a medium bowl to cool.
Once the butter/sugar mixture is completely cooled add the eggs one at a time, making sure to mix each time.
Add the cocoa/flour mixture to the egg mixture gradually, until completely mixed together.
Heat a nutella container in the microwave for a bout 40 seconds. You want the nutella to have a runny consistency which will allow the nutella to pour easily. Add the nutella to the batter and mix well. Lastly add the chocolate chips and fold into the batter.
Pour your batter into a buttered square pan… I like to parchment paper to my pan before pouring my brownie batter inside. This makes it easier to take your brownies out after they bake and cool. Bake for 30 minutes.
Remove from oven and cool completely. I placed my brownies in the fridge after they cooled to make sure that they came together and was not runny. Due to its chocolate amounts the brownie may be sticky and fudgey inside, which to me is the best way to eat them but to make sure they were not falling apart. I left mine in there for a few hours, but you could always leave them in there overnight and decorate the following day.
Take the completely cooled brownies out of the fridge and cut in squares. Then pour a tablespoon of nutella on each brownie square. Then sprinkle the mini chocolate chips and white chocolate chips on top.
3. Banana cupcakes with nutella icing
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 ounces unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large very ripe bananas, pureed
Nutella Frosting Ingredients:
8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup nutella
8 ounces powdered sugar, by weight
Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Line 16 muffin cups with paper liners.
-Sift the flour, baking powder, soda, and salt together in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
-Cream together the softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
-Add the vanilla and the eggs, 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition.
-Add the flour mixture and blend ingredients together until only just combined.
-Stir in the banana. Blend mixture until ingredients are fully incorporated.
-Portion batter into muffin cups. This recipe with make about 16 cupcakes.
-Bake in preheated oven until cakes are light golden brown and tester comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes.
-After removing cupcakes from the oven, cool completely on a wire rack.
-Once completely cool, top with nutella frosting (recipe follows) and a sprinkle of chopped, toasted hazelnuts.
Nutella Frosting Directions:
-Cream together the cream cheese and nutella until blended.
-Add the powdered sugar gradually until ingredients are combined.
-Mix on a high speed until frosting is smooth and creamy.
-Fill a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe frosting over the top of each cupcake.
