I love hazelnuts. Not so long ago I was willing to bake anything that involved hazelnuts. But that’s not the reason I baked these melt-in-your-mouth brownies. I knew I had to make these the minute I read those three magical words. This recipe is from Abby’s Dessert 4 Today Cookbook and I can’t wait to get my hands on this book and try out the other 124 desserts.
The two best things about this dessert is:
– It needs only 4 ingredients (which you will definitely find in your pantry) and;
– In less than 20 minutes you have a delicious dessert to serve.
Nutella Fudge Brownies
Author: Adapted from Abby Dodge and Creative Culinary
Ingredients
For The Brownies:
- 1 Cup Nutella spread
- 1 large Egg
- 5 Tablespoons All Purpose Flour
- ¼ Cup Hazelnuts
For The Frosting:
- ½ Cup Butter, softened
- 1¾ to 2 Cups Confectioner’s Sugar
- ⅛ Cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
- ¼ Cup Warm Milk
- 2 Teaspoon Dry espresso or instant coffee
Instructions
For The Brownies:
- Preheat the oven to 350 Degrees.
- Spray a mini cupcake pan with nonstick cooking spray or line with foil liners.
- Whisk the Nutella and egg in a medium bowl until smooth
- Add flour and mix until blended.
- Mix in ⅔ of the chopped hazelnuts.
- Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan and sprinkle remaining chopped hazelnuts on top.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick when inserted comes out with wet, gooey crumbs.
- Set on the rack and cool completely.
For the Buttercream Frosting:
- Combine butter, sugar, cocoa and vanilla in a medium bowl and mix until everything is combined.
- Combine milk and dried coffee; add slowly to mixture in bowl.
- Beat at high speed with an electric mixer until uniform and fluffy.
- If necessary, add up to ¼ cup additional confectioner’s sugar until the mixture is somewhat firm.
- Pipe or spread onto cool cupcakes.
Happy Baking!
Decadent! And seeing those 4 ingredients I am amazed at how rich they must be! I love the idea of baking them in cupcake cups and frosting them. How much more decadent can you get? Wow!
They are amazing Jamie! You should definitely give them a shot! :)
Love this! And Barbara's wonderful frosting is the perfect accompaniment to this dessert!
Thanks Bri! :)
These must be dense & rich. Gah. Yummy.
Oh my – I can see you're going to be one dangerous blogger to know! Cupcakes and Nutella – devilishly delightful. Nice to meet you!
It is so funny – When I got to your blog I read the title…looked down and just exhaled. My goodness these sure look good! And hello – only 4 ingredients for the brownie? Love it.
– Butter
(Running On Butter)
You are totally speaking my language. Cupcake? Brownie? Together? Yes. Yes. Yes.
OMG YUM!
I love brownies,as I keep saying all the time!And I love Nutella!So this recipe has got two of my favorite things together!:-)
This gets bookmarked as well; Thank you for sharing!
So finally,I made these,I ate one and oh my my,in the words of Graham Elliot,”My mouth just had an orgasm”,LOL,they were divine,so delicious!
I would definitely be making these again,thanks once again for such an awesome recipe!:-)
Ha! Thanks Fahad! So glad you enjoyed them. :)