Nutella Cupcakes!
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Chocolatey cupcakes dotted with hazelnuts, topped with a creamy & delicious Nutella buttercream frosting with Kinder Bueno… amazing Nutella cupcakes!
Nutella!
Some of you may also know that a little while ago I ventured to Italy with my Family, and Italy = Nutella in my mind. I had it EVERY day, at breakfast, in Gelato, and for pudding..
I am Nutella obsessed, which you can probably tell by looking at my Ferrero Rocher & Nutella no-bake cheesecake and my Ferrero Rocher & Nutella chocolate tart recipes!
Nutella cupcakes
These have a delicious chocolate cupcake sponge with hazelnuts to give an extra nutty taste. I then cut out a little bit of sponge to create a Nutella centre… hello yummy.
I then created a Nutella buttercream to go on top, and topped that with some extra hazelnuts and a piece of Kinder Bueno! Honestly, you can change this up if you wanted… anything chocolate or hazelnutty would taste great!
Recipe update and baking cases
I remade these cupcakes in August 2017 as the old recipe wasn’t my style any more. I wanted to make the recipe more simple, and even more delicious.
I used some plain brown cases for these cupcakes as I think the colour makes the bake look even more chocolatey! You can use baking cups if you prefer though – these are what I had in the drawer!
Decoration
Swirling on the buttercream is just a little show.. you can just splodge it on if you wanted. I only ever put this much effort into baking when its for my blog and usually there is a lot more mess in my kitchen, so I really do restrict myself haha!
These are definitely for Nutella fans, and chocolate fans, and even cupcake fans – they’re an all round winner in my house and with my taste testers so I hope you all like them too!
Nutella Cupcakes!
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 175 g unsalted butter
- 175 g light brown sugar
- 50 g skinned hazlenuts finely chopped
- 3 large free range eggs beaten
- 140 g self raising flour
- 35 g cocoa powder
Nutella Buttercream Frosting
- 150 g unsalted butter softened
- 300 g icing sugar
- 150 g Nutella
- 2 tbsp boiling water
Decoration
- Nutella
- Kinder Bueno pieces
- Chopped hazelnuts
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat your oven to 170C/160CFan
- Line a 12 hole muffin tray with large cupcake cases/muffin cases
- Cream together the unsalted butter and light brown sugar with an electric beater until smooth
- Add in the hazelnuts, beaten eggs, self raising flour and cocoa powder and beat again for about 30 seconds on a medium speed
- Spoon into your cases and bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes or until cooked through
- Leave to cool on a wire rack
- Once the cakes are cool, cut out a hole in the middle of the cupcakes and fill with Nutella.
Buttercream Frosting
- Beat the unsalted butter until smooth and supple
- Add the icing sugar and beat again for a couple of minutes
- Add in the Nutella and beat again
- If its still or looking a bit weird, add 1-3tbsps of boiling water to loosen it slightly and smoothen it. I use my KitchenAid for frostings as the machine can make it so much lighter and fluffier!
Decoration
- Decorate your cupcakes how you like - I use a 2d closed star piping tip, and swirl on my buttercream.
- I then sprinkle of some chopped hazelnuts, and a piece of Kinder Bueno!
- ENJOY!
Notes
- These cupcakes are delicious how they are - but you can miss out on the nuts in the sponge if you just want chocolate - or switch them out for a different nut! Just don't go over 50g as I find that makes them dry!
- You can make your frosting more chocolatey if you like by adding 25g cocoa powder and only 275g icing sugar!
- These cupcakes will last in an airtight container for 2-3 days!
- The original recipe for this post was as follows for those who loved the original:
150g Unsalted Butter
125g Golden Caster Sugar
75g Chopped Hazelnuts
3 Medium Eggs
100g Self Raising Flour
25g Cocoa Powder
1/4tsp Bicarbonate
1/2tsp Vanilla
2tbsps Whole Milk
ENJOY!
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I’ve just made these for my sisters birthday and they were a great hit 🙂
Hey Jane.
Would this recipe work for a rectangle tin?
I usually say one batch of cupcakes fits 1x 8″ round tin – so it depends on the size of you tin x
Hey darling I have tried so many of your recipes and loved it all can I used Nutella instead of coca powder ? Shall I increase the self-raising flour ?
For the sponge I wouldn’t suggest it personally as I don’t think it is as nice! If you want to though, you can try it!
I LOVE these cupcakes they are amazing!! They are a hit every time I make them..
Can this recipe be halved to make just 6 ?
Because of the eggs, half is quite hard – making 1/3 (4 cupcakes) or 2/3 (8 cupcakes) is better!
Did you not need any bicarbonate or baking powder for the new recipe? I just wanted to make sure.
No, you don’t! x
Hello. Planning on making these for my friend’s birthday. What sugar do you recommend? Light soft brown sugar or Demerara? Thanks!
Light brown soft sugar!
Hi Jane would it work if I put the batter and Buttercream in the fridge for a day and then Baked and decorated them ?
Hiya! Cake mixture needs baking immediately once made and can’t sit. Also, the buttercream will become very solid in the fridge so you would need to re-mix it the next day anyway to be able to decorate x
Hi i was wondering can this be converted in to two 8inch cake tins? ?
I would double the ingredients for the cupcake sponges and split between two tins, and then also double the frosting!
I’ve just tried making these and I have to say they were delicious! I thought I had a pretty fool-proof recipe for cupcakes already, but these blew them out of the water completely!! Didn’t have any hazelnuts to had this time, but will definitely add them next time 🙂
Oh I am so so glad you love them so much! Thank you for letting me know!! 😀 x
Hi I wanted to know can the same recipe be used to make an 8 inch Nutella cake ?
I have never personally tried it, but I don’t see why not! I am working on a Nutella cake recipe anyway so that’ll be up soon! 🙂
And it has Nutella ?
Hehe thank you so much!!
Yum! Looks SO good!
This looks a great way of making a regular chocolate cupcake even more desirable. I’ll be giving these a go soon!
Thanks Andrew!! 🙂 Let me know how you get on!
Oh my gosh. My husband LOVES nutella and his bday is coming up so I’ll have to try them. 🙂
Aww yes please do!! I really hope he likes them if you make them! 🙂
As usual, simply amazing!!
Thank you so much! 🙂
Looks very yummy
Thank you!! 🙂