Nutella Recipe of the Day:

NUTELLA HOT CHOCOLATE

1 serving

1 cup milk (I use skim)
2 1/2 Tbsp Nutella
1 Tbsp Cocoa
Tiny pinch of salt

In a small sauce pan over medium heat, whisk all ingredients together until well blended and hot. Pour in a cup and top with homemade whipped cream and shaved chocolate. Excellent with some shaved Lindt chocolate on top.

[Source: thehungryhousewife.com] 

Now that's a lot of Nutella!

Nutella Recipe of the Day!

Petite Nutella Pochettes

• Prep Time: 1 hrs
• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Yield: 32 pochettes

About This Recipe

"This recipe is from Melissa d'Arabian from the Food Network. I made these for my niece who is away at college and is a huge Nutella lover. After the pochettes had cooled, I rolled them in confectioner's sugar. My niece loved them."

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, at room temperature
• 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup nutella, plus
• 2 tablespoons nutella
• 1/2-1 cup confectioners' sugar
• water, as needed

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, using a hand mixer, cream the butter and cream cheese together until light and creamy. Add the flour slowly until the dough forms. Do not over-mix! Shape the dough into a ball and cover. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
3. On a lightly-floured surface, using a lightly-floured rolling pin, roll out the dough to 1/8-inch thickness. Using a 3-inch fluted biscuit cutter, cut out as many circles as you can. Form the scraps into a ball and reroll to make more circles.

Fill each dough circle with a small spoonful of Nutella. Dip your finger in tap water and spread on the edge of half the circle to help create a seal. Fold the dough over to create a crescent. Bake until golden, about 20 minutes. Cool, then sift the confectioners' sugar on top and serve. 

[Courtesy of Food.com] 

Nutella Lawsuit

No Nutella blog would be complete without at least a passing reference to the Nutella lawsuit class action settlement passed down a couple of weeks ago in California:

Nutella: Consumer Class Action Settlement

 

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Two moms took a big food corporation to court over false advertising and won their case — and now you can get a cut of it.

Their goal was to get the maker of Nutella to admit that, contrary to its ads, the product is no more healthy than a candy bar.

Laura Rude-Barbato, mother of three took the maker of Nutella to court and won. Athena Hohenberg, a San Diego mother of a 4-year-old daughter also took the company to court.

Rude-Barbato said their television ad which claimed that “Nutella is made with simple, quality ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of coco,” was false.

“I thought it was at least as nutritious as peanut butter if not more and that’s the impression I got from the advertisement. I thought it had health benefits and it clearly doesn’t,” she said.

After watching the ads, Rude-Barbato was  shocked to discover that what she had been feeding her children wasn’t healthy at all.

In fact, just two tablespoons of Nutella contains 200 calories, 21 grams of sugar and 11 grams of fat.

“I felt duped,” said Rude-Barbato.

In Hohenberg’s suit, she claimed that she “was shocked to learn” that Nutella “was the next best thing to a candy bar.”

The company website still asserts: “when used in moderation with complementary foods, Nutella® is a quick and easy tool to encourage kids to eat whole grains, such as whole wheat toast.”

Rude-Barbato fought back for truth in advertising and the maker of Nutella, Fererro USA awarded her $3.5 million — that’s anywhere from $4 to $20 per person.

Any consumer who bought Nutella between Jan. 1, 2008 and Feb. 3, 2012, (or Aug. 1, 2009 and Jan. 23, 2012 in California) can file a claim.

To find out more about the consumer class action settlement click here.

[Source ABCNews.go.com]

Nutella Lava Brownies

A classic Nutella retake on Domino's lava cakes:

Ingredients: 
1 box of your favorite brownie mix
1/3 cup Nutella

Directions:
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Prepare brownie mix according to instructions. Grease a 12 hole muffin or cupcake pan.
Scoop batter into each muffin tin until 1/3 full. Add a generous dollop of Nutella to the middle of each muffin tin (about 1 tsp). Add more brownie batter on top, until about 2/3 full.
Bake for 20 minutes. A toothpick inserted near the side (not where the Nutella is) should come out clean.
Let brownies cool for 5-10 minutes, then use a knife around the edges to loosen the brownies and remove from tin. Add raspberries and/or confectioners sugar as desired.

Serve while warm.

Source: earthlaughs

It Just Gets Stranger

Nutella Pizza?!

While researching new and exciting ways of consuming Nutella I came across this little gem courtesy of Manusmenu.com:

Ingredients:
Pizza dough
Nutella
Whipped cream, unsweetened
Toasted hazelnuts

Roll out your pizza dough into a cirlce. Make it 0.5 cm thick and poke the centre a few times with a fork, so that it stays flat while cooking.

Bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC – 350ºF for about 15 minutes or until the pizza is cooked through. 

When ready, take it out and generously spread some Nutella on the top.  Decorate it with whipped cream, to make it look like mozzarella, and toasted hazelnuts.

Serve while warm. 

The Unofficial Guide to Nutella

Anyone claiming to be a true Nutella connoisseur will of course have a copy of this wonderful volume  by Michelle Fabio and Sara Rosso in their library:

Nutella. A mix of chocolate and hazelnut If you know it, you love it!

We, the World Nutella Day co-hosts, decided to put together this primer for both aspiring and veteran Nutella fans to better understand their favorite hazelnut spread and help spread the word about Nutella!

Inside the guide, you'll find Nutella recipes with full-color photos (black & white on classic Kindle), an introduction on how to eat Nutella, our favorite Nutella combinations, fun ideas for how to enjoy Nutella, how to throw your own Nutella party, and much more.

If you like to cook, or just want to experiment with some sweet treats, you'll love the recipes in The Unofficial Guide to Nutella.

Here are the recipes in the book:
- Flourless Chocolate Nutella Cake
- Nutella & Mascarpone Cream Chocolate Tarts
- Hazelnut Macarons with Nutella and Spicy Nut Centers
- Nutella & Mixed Nut Cereal Clusters
- Nutella & Fresh Ginger Mousse
- Drunken Devil's Food Espresso Cupcakes with Nutella Filling
- Italian-style Hot Chocolate with Nutella
- Banana & Nutella Cake
- Banana Nutella Brownies

So whether you're a new or old-school Nutella fan, whether you're looking for ideas to participate in World Nutella Day on February 5th, want to wow your friends with a Nutella dessert, or you just want a quick way to show your friends what the fuss is about, the Unofficial Guide to Nutella has something for you!

You can get this now for Kindle on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/The-Unofficial-Guide-Nutella-ebook/dp/B006YRN15O/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336614775&sr=1-1