cupcake friday: nutella cupcakes

I have been looking for a good nutella cupcake since acquiring a mondo-sized jar of it recently on sale. When I saw this sour cream version from Ming Makes Cupcakes I was sold.

nutella

The process: I made a few variations on this one. I wanted the cake itself to have a nutella flavour, so I added one heaping teaspoon to the batter. I also eliminated the vanilla and added a 1/4 tsp. of coffee flavour. Upon mixing the wet & dry ingredients the batter was extremely dry, so I added 3 tbsp. of canola oil. This still left me with a fairly stiff batter but it was wet enough to spoon out at this point. For the icing I used 5 tbsp. each shortening and nutella, plus 1/3 cup icing sugar.

The result: The taste was nice. A little too nutella-y for my husband, while I would have liked the nutella to come through even more. The icing sugar was again a little sweet for me … if anyone knows of a not-too-sweet icing recipe I’d love to hear it!

Posted: March 4th, 2011 | Author: Stockton | Filed under: cupcake fridays | Tags: , | 2 Comments »

2 Comments on “cupcake friday: nutella cupcakes”

  1. 1 gelda said at 11:01 pm on March 17th, 2011:

    try whipping up some cream and adding Nutella to that as an alternative to icing – my family and friends prefer it

  2. 2 Stockton said at 2:03 pm on March 19th, 2011:

    thanks, I’ll try that next time!