Ferrero Rocher Nutella Cupcakes
These Nuttella Cupcakes will give you crunch, creamy, soft, and crunch as you bite into them. These cupcakes are made with a very standard cupcake recipe ingredients but have nutella added to their batter, a ferrero rocher dipped in and are topped with even more nutella, hazelnuts and then a lovely nutella icing. Surprisingly, these cupcakes are not rich at all, they have a lovely balance and some cocoa powder on the icing gives them a bit of bitterness. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
For the cupcakes (makes 15 to 16 cupcakes):
120 ml of vegetable oil
200 gr of sugar
120 ml of milk
155 gr of greek yoghurt
2 eggs
1 tbsp of vanilla extract
150 gr of Nutella
260 gr of plain flour
1 tsp of baking powder
15 Ferrero Rocher
For the icing:
400 gr of butter
100 gr of icing sugar
2 tsp of cocoa powder
120 gr of Nutella
4 tbsp of doble cream
Optional decor:
50 gr of chopped hazelnuts
Nutella (to spread over)
15 Ferrero Rocher
Method:
Preheat the oven at 170 degrees celsius, fan bake.
In a bowl, mix together the vegetable oil, sugar and milk. Then, add in the greek yoghurt and vanilla extract and mix again.
Beat in the eggs one at a time until incorporated. Add in the Nutella. If your Nutella is solid due to the cold temperatures, heat it up in the microwave for 10 seconds so it becomes runny but it’s not hot.
Add in the baking powder and flour and mix. I highly recommend using a hand mixer for this so it’s well incorporated, as the batter is quite thick and may be hard to mix manually.
Place your cupcake cases in a cupcake/muffin tin, using a cookie scoop, add a layer of batter in each case, it should fill up only 1/3 of the case. Then, place a Ferrero Rocher in the middle of each case and cover with more batter, make sure only 3/4 of the cupcake case is full and there is space for them to grow and not overflow. (See the pictures above for more detail)
Cook the cupcakes in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
Once the cupcakes are ready, take them out of the oven and let them cool completely. Once they are completely cold, make the icing by beating all the ingredients together with a hand mixer.
To assemble, spread Nutella on top of the cupcake, then, dip it into the chopped hazelnuts (I put mine in a bowl), pipe the icing and finally top with an extra Ferrero Rocher.
