Last week a friend from Facebook, Trisha, asked me to come up with a recipe for Nutella. Now, this sounded like a fun challenge, except I’d never had Nutella before. Boy was I missing out! This nutty chocolate is delicious, and I typically hate all nut products, more notably peanuts. But the light hazelnut flavor just left me wanting more. At her request, I’ve come up with what I think is is a tasty treat and fun for the kids to help you make too!
We’re making pizza … dessert style. You’ll want to start off with a really good cookie base, and this is my go to recipe for a chocolate chip cookie dough.
Cookie Ingredients
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 stick of butter, softened at room temperature (don’t use margarine please)
- 2 tsps pure vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 – 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- pinch of salt
Topping Ingredients
- 1/4 cup white chocolate baking chips
- 1/4 cup milk chocolate baking chips
- 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate baking chips
- 3 spoonfuls of Nutella, in a piping bag
- chopped hazelnuts (if desired)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Combine the sugars, butter, egg and vanilla until well blended into a creamy, brown mixture.
2. Slowly add in flour, salt and baking soda. Mix with a wooden spoon until well combined.
3. Using a (ungreased) 10 Inch Springform Pan, spread the cookie dough evenly across the base. Bake for 13 minutes and remove.
4. Sprinkle the baking chips evenly over the cookie, leaving the edges free so you’ll have a non chocolate surface to hold your pizza slice.
5. Using a piping bag (or use the corner of a plastic sandwich bag) spread the Nutella over the baking chips in any design you like.
6. Return the cookie to the oven for 5 – 7 more minutes until the cookie is golden brown on the edges and the chocolates are soft and warm.
YUM. I don’t like any nuts at all, but I LOVE Nutella. Glad you came up with a recipe….wonder if I could do this for my bakesale…I’d probably eat it all first. lol
WOW YUM!!!!
Im going to make it this weekend and ill be back with my review!
trisha
PS thanks so much! now i can share nutella with charlotte and not just put it on bread. She has never tried it!
I’ve never had Nutella either but this looks great!
Yum! I love Nutella and this looks soooo good!
If only my husband wasn’t deathly allergic to nuts. I would LOVE this!!!
Nutella is the bomb! And this looks delicious! YUMM!
Thanks Cat! (love the pics too!)
Oh my goodness! I looooove Nutella…this looks amazing! Definitely bookmarking 🙂
I can’t believe you’ve never had nutella before! I adore the combo of chocolate and hazelnut. This is a wonderful, creative use of the ingredients, yum.
I’m a sucker for nutella, cookie dough and chocolate chips. I will make this minus the nuts.. weird i LOVE nutella but hate nuts on any of my deserts!
I made this recipe for tonight but I used walnuts instead of hazelnuts and I did 1 recipe plus half and it was just perfect for a disposable 12 inch pizza tin 🙂
Can’t wait to have my co-workers try it out tomorow 🙂