This is such a simple and easy recipe to put together. All you need is a few main ingredients and you are on your way to making a delicious, special, yet easy treat for your family. It does not matter if you are not great at baking- you do not need any special skills to make this. Just stir all together, pop in a muffin tin and let that Nutella bake beautifully and you will have special muffins for your family before you know it! Give this a try and you will see what I mean.
Check out what our friends over at Sugar Spun Run had to say about this:
“These fluffy Nutella muffins are studded with white chocolate chips and swirled with a Nutella cream cheese mixture, then sprinkled with sugar.”
I mean really, who could resist these? Definitely not me!
Ingredients
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8 oz Philadelphia cream cheese softened
2/3 cup Nutella
1/3 cup Domino sugar granulated
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Muffin
2 cups Gold Medal all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup Wesson canola oil can substitute vegetable oil
3/4 cup Domino sugar
1/2 cup Land O’ Lakes buttermilk
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup Hershey’s white chocolate chips optional
Turbinado sugar for sprinkling or regular granulated, optional
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F and line cupcake pan with paper liners (or grease/spray with baking spray)
In medium-sized, microwave safe bowl, combine cream cheese and Nutella and microwave at 10 second increments until the two can easily be stirred together (do not exceed 30 seconds).
Stir together cream cheese and Nutella and then stir in sugar.
Add egg yolk and vanilla and stir until combined. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In another bowl, combine canola oil, sugar, buttermilk, eggs and vanilla extract, stirring until well-combined.
Add flour mixture to canola oil mixture and stir until just combined (do not over-mix!). Stir in white chocolate chips, if using.
Fill muffin cups 1/2-way full with muffin batter. Top with 1 1/2 – 2 Tbsp of Nutella mixture and then top with another spoonful of muffin batter so that muffin cups are about 3/4 full.
Use a butter knife or toothpick to swirl the Nutella with the spoonful of muffin batter added to the top.
Sprinkle with turbinado (or regular) sugar and then bake for 25-30 minutes (until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or with few crumbs) and allow muffins to cool before enjoying.
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Quick Tip: Create buttermilk by mixing or 1/2 cup milk mixed with 1/2 Tbsp lemon juice or vinegar and allowed to sit for at least 5 minutes.
