Nutella Cupcakes

I don’t know about you guys but if I could live off one food for the rest of my life, it would be Nutella. However, I’m more than aware of the high caloric intake in each tasty spoonful so I try to keep my binges at bay by placing the jars on the highest shelves in my kitchen. At a staggering 5’5, this sometimes works in combatting my cravings.

I usually just savor it by the spoonfuls or as a side to fruit or pretzels (ha, as a side, yea right) but lately, I’ve been trying to incorporate it into other tasty treats. My first experiment was to make Self Frosting Nutella Cupcakes. I came up with the idea mid-afternoon on a Sunday and needed something that was quick before people came over for the Bears game. The whole process took me no longer then 30 minutes so it’s now my go-to recipe for when I need something fast and easy.

ready for baking!

Ingredients

10 tbsp butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
3 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups sifted flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup Nutella

**I had some leftover cake flour sitting in the pantry so I used that instead of flour but I’m sure the results would be similar if you just use regular ol’ flour.

Method

- Preheat oven to 325F and line 12 muffin tins with paper liners.

- Cream together butter and sugar until light, about 2 minutes. Add in eggs on at a time, until fully incorporated.

-Add vanilla.

- Stir in flour, salt, and baking powder until batter is smooth and all flour is blended. Using an ice cream scoop, fill each muffin liner with batter. Cups 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, folding a little batter up and over the Nutella as well.Bake for 20 minutes. Remove to wire rack and allow to cool.

- Makes 12.

we're so ugly but we taste soooo good.

I made my brother fold in the Nutella which is prodominantly why these babies look like such a hot mess. But pretty or not, they were DELICIOUS. The cupcake itself wasn’t that sweet so the warm Nutella filling was the perfect compliment.

I definitely recommend giving these a whirl if Nutella tickles your fancy like it does mine. But ya know, that means you actually have to leave some in the jar. :p

xo loves.

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