My daughter is a Nutella freak and just loves the creamy chocolaty spread! She would take a jar of it to school and her classmates would pass it around during lunch and eat it straight from the container. Probably not the most sanitary thing to do, but teens live for the moment and don’t put much thought into that kind of stuff.
I wanted to bake my daughter something special, so I decided to search for recipes using Nutella and found Self Frosting Nutella Cupcakes at Baking Bites.
Nutella Self Frosted Cupcakes
10 tbsp(140 grams) butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
3 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups (200 grams) sifted all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
Nutella, approx. 1/3 cup
Preheat oven to 325F. Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners.
Cream together butter and sugar until light, 2 minutes. Add in eggs one at a time, until fully incorporated. Don’t worry if the batter doesn’t look smooth. Add vanilla. Stir in flour, salt and baking powder until batter is uniform and no flour remains.
Using an ice cream scoop, fill each muffin liner with batter. They should be 3/4 full, if you’re not using a scoop. Top each cake with 1 1/2 tsp Nutella. Swirl Nutella in with a toothpick, making sure to fold a bit of batter up over the nutella.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes 12.
I followed the recipe using exact measurements and the cupcakes came out looking gorgeous. However, I found them to be way too dry for my liking and they needed a touch of frosting for some sweetness. I decided to whip up a batch of Philly Cream Cheese Nutella Frosting, which made them taste even more incredible!
Philly Cream Cheese Nutella Frosting
8 oz Philadelphia Cream Cheese at room temperature
2 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 oz Nutella
In a bowl, whisk together the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Sift the powdered sugar over the bowl and whisk for a few seconds until blended. Add the Nutella and mix until completely incorporated.
Yet, in the future I’m going to use another cupcake recipe instead of the one above, because to be honest they came out having more of a muffin texture than cake consistency. I love the looks of the marbled cupcake and think it could be done with any recipe, so use a cake recipe you like and swirl the Nutella into it with a toothpick to get the beautiful effect!
Oh my these look scrumptious! Now I need to go clean the laptop keyboard haha!
Yeah I think I just drooled on my keyboard too!
That looks so good!!
They look great! Great close up too!
wow, what a great shot, they look great
Ok, seriously yummy looking!
That looks to die for… I think this will be the first thing I’m making on the next cheat day I get from my diet!! Nutella is amazing, it’s cute how your daughter is crazy about it!
Delicious oh how I wish I could have nuts! darn allergies
It’s nice nice to tempt your readers. Now I’m craving for something sweet lol…..but seriously those look amazing.
These look so good. What a good idea. I am going to try it with my cake recipe. I hope they turn out as nice looking as these!!
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Um, WOW– those look delicious.
Yum! I am going to try these!
Currently 8 months pregnant with my second- this time it’s a girl- and Nutella has been one of my favorite things this time around. These cupcakes sound to die for- CREAM CHEESE AND NUTELLA ICING!? WHAT!? Totally have to try these tomorrow… seriously.. or I Might just make the husband make them for me NOW. Lol!
This would be a nice reciepe to have to try for the grandsons an my daughter in law who doesnt like peanut butter
These look amazing, my kids love Nutella but I’ve never baked with it.
Yummolicious!
WOOOOW . These good look delicious. Im afraid to look at them for too long.