Recipe: Simple Nutella Cupcakes

First of all please excuse the less than professional picture, the idea to post these as a separate recipe before decoration only came to me as I took them out of the oven. These simple Nutella cupcakes are the base for a Kinder Bueno cupcake that I’m baking for my colleagues 18th birthday. However seeing how well this quickly put together, hastily judged recipe turned out, I thought I’d share it with you all. Shall we get into it. 

Ingredients 

- 120g Stork

- 120g Caster Sugar 

- 120g Self Raising Flour 

- 120g Nutella, melted 

- 2 Tsps Cocoa Powder 

- 2 Tsps Chocolate Extract 

- 2 Eggs 

Method 

1- Pre heat your oven to 180C. Line a twelve hole with paper cases. 

2- In a bowl place your stork and caster sugar. Cream together until pale and fluffy, easily achieved with a stand mixer or by hand. 

3- Add one egg and a tablespoon of flour. Beat thoroughly until combined, taking time to scrape the sides of the bowl. 

4-Repeat with the second egg and a second tablespoon of flour. Beat again until combined, making sure everything is incorporated and not left sitting on the sides of bottom of the bowl. 

5- Fold in your remaining flour, cocoa powder and chocolate extract. Folding these ingredients helps to keep the air in your mixture, creating a light, melt in the mouth cake that you won’t be able to get enough of. 

6- Fold in your melted Nutella, you’ll notice that the mixture will darken and become looser in consistency but that’s totally fine. You don’t have to melt your Nutella before you add it to the mixture but  melted it does help with its incorporation. 

7- Spoon your mixture into your prepared paper cases and cook for 20-22 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. You can also do the press test and if the top springs back then their ready to come out. Due to the cocoa powder and Nutella in the mixture, these don’t take as long to cook as other cake mixture do. 

8- Leave to cool in the tin for five minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. 

9- All that’s left then is to enjoy them. And what may be one could easily turn into two or three as these are deliciously moreish.