I’m very excited to share with you today’s recipe for Nutella brownies. My excitement has nothing to do with the fact that anything made with Nutella tastes better. However, I’m excited because this recipe only contains only four ingredients!!! Now you may be asking yourself right this minute on whether or not you can trust a brownie recipe with only four ingredients. This is a fair question I will address because I had some skepticism myself. But rest assured, these little hazelnut chocolate bites are well worth the 3 minutes (if that) it took for me to mix the batter and the 12 minutes it required to bake.
This recipe comes from pasty chef, cookbook author, and Fine Cooking Magazine’s contributing editor, Abby Dodge. She has a new cookbook coming out next week called Desserts 4 Today: Flavorful Desserts with Just Four Ingredients
Back to the brownies. The texture of the brownies are more similar to a gooey cake.. .molten lava cake to be exact. If you’re hoping for a chewy brownie, these are not it. Instead, they are more like super moist cake except the brownies literally melt in your mouth. The recipe makes exactly 12 mini cupcake sized bites and it is hard not to eat them all in one setting. I can already tell these little chocolate bites of yumminess are going to become my regular late night pick me up snack.
I should also mention, this recipe does not require a mixer and children can easily whip up a batch. Enjoy!
| 4 Ingredients Nutella Brownies |
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- 1/2 cup Nutella spread
- 1 large egg
- 5 tablespoons all=purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 12-cup mini muffin pan with paper or foil liners.
- Put the Nutella and egg in a medium bowl and whisk until smooth and well blended. Add the flour and whisk until blended.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin tins (about 3/4 full) and sprinkle with the chopped hazelnuts.
- Bake until a pick comes out with wet, gooey crumbs, 11 to 12 minutes. Set on a rack to cool completely. Serve immediately or cover and store at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Switch-Ins: In place of the hazelnuts, switch in one of the following:
* ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon (add with the flour)
* peanuts, chopped, 1/4 cup
Switch-Ins: In place of the hazelnuts, switch in one of the following:
- ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon (add with the flour)
- peanuts, chopped, 1/4 cup
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I made these with 1 tablespoon of gluten free plain flour, and 4 tablespoons of gluten free self raising flour (because thats all I had in the cupboard!) and adjusted the nutella to just under 3/4 cup. OMG super yum! Gooey chocolately brownies, chewy on outside, gooey in the middle. If you are looking for the easiest gluten free brownie recipe adjust this one and it is devine!!
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe, I was skeptical at first but they are awesome! They really are like molten lava cake with the flavor of the furrer rocher chocolates.. Rich and Delicious!
Can you suggest any replacement for egg?
Hi Sapna,
I know of people replacing eggs with ground flax seed. However, I have not tried this myself.
1Tbls ground flax seed mixed with 3Tbls warm water =1 egg.
I have used this replacement with a few cake recipes, but have not tried with this nutella brownie recipe yet.
Those look fantastic! My kids absolutely love Nutella, so I know they would love these! They look so simple to make that I could probably just have them make them for me, my daughter certainly does love to cook.
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I think you have your measurements wrong, The consistency isnt anything close to your pictures. wtf women? Get in the kitchen and make me a sammich!!!
OMG! These are amazing! I made these for my family for Thanksgiving and they ALL wanted the recipe!
I do not have mini tins so what other pan would work? I was thinking of doubling the recipe & using a 9×9 or 13×9 which one would work best?
Hi Mary,
I would be reluctant to make this in a square pan. When baking in tiny tin size, the brownies will not fall apart. But if baked in a large pan, this might not be the case.
hi, i really want to try these but i only have self raising flour would that work?
Love them! Fudgy and dense, just the way I like mine. Turned out perfect even in my convection oven– tweaked it to 15 min using 160 degree celsius
an idiot-proof recipe!
These are in my oven right now! I cannot wait to see how they turn out!!!
These brownies did not taste very good and the texture was iffy. Not what I like in a brownie at all. It yielded only 6 tiny “brownies” too. Disappointed
Beautiful! I made these with the family for World Nutella Day and we all loved them. Easy to make but very hard to resist!
I have a batch in the oven about ready to come out, and they smell delicious! I didn’t have mini muffin tins, so I used the regular size ones and only filled the liners half-full, so we’ll see how they taste!
what temperature do you bake them at?
I just made these and while they tasted good they were not at all gooey inside like molten lava cakes, more like cupcakes or brownies. I followed the directions and what is odd is my oven usually runs a little cooler so I usually have to increase heat and time but I baked at 350 and for 11 minutes. Will try again and either use 4 tbs flour or bake for 8-9 minutes
I think it’s because I’m a guy or something like that, but the brownies turned out horrible. It has a very weird centre and the crust is awful tasting…I’d give it another go but the taste still haunts me…
I made these exactly as written and they were perfect. A definite keeper. I can’t wait to try some more of the recipes you have here!
They were good but it was very messy for me to get it in. I think my consistancy is wrong.
o well they were still good
I made these today and took them to work- they were fantastic! So easy to put together & so tasty!
Thank you for the recipe.
I tried the recipe yesterday! And I as well was skeptic at first, but it turned amazing!!
totally recommended!
I liked this recipe! I did not get the lava cake effect, but they are very yummy!! Good for when you don’t have a lot of ingredients in the kitchen!!
Thanks!!!
Yum! Loved these!!!
Yumm-oh!!! Loved these!
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