{4 Ingredients} Nutella Brownies

by alice on August 23, 2010 · 121 comments

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 filled with fabulous everyday desserts made with only four ingredients.  She gave me permission to post her fabulous recipe here – Thanks Abby!  I’ll be doing a review of her cookbook on Savory Sweet Life later in the week and will also be giving away a few copies.  So stayed tuned!

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
4.1 from 13 reviews
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Recipe type: Dessert
Author: Savory Sweet Life
Prep time: 1 min
Cook time: 12 mins
Total time: 13 mins
Serves: 12 pieces
Amazing Nutella brownies using only four ingredients. Reprinted with permission from Abby Dodge, cookbook author of Desserts 4 Today: Flavorful Desserts with Just Four Ingredients.
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup Nutella spread
  • 1 large egg
  • 5 tablespoons all=purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts
Instructions
  1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 12-cup mini muffin pan with paper or foil liners.
  2. Put the Nutella and egg in a medium bowl and whisk until smooth and well blended. Add the flour and whisk until blended.
  3. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin tins (about 3/4 full) and sprinkle with the chopped hazelnuts.
  4. 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.
Notes

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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Elizabeth October 15, 2011 at 8:50 pm

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!!

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Desiree October 22, 2011 at 10:12 pm

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!

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Sapna October 26, 2011 at 9:18 am

Can you suggest any replacement for egg?

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alice October 28, 2011 at 4:18 pm

Hi Sapna,
I know of people replacing eggs with ground flax seed. However, I have not tried this myself.

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Patty November 9, 2011 at 10:46 pm

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.

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Waterless Cookware October 26, 2011 at 3:54 pm

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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MikeHawk Sofaking Huge October 27, 2011 at 4:14 am

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!!!

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Sofia November 24, 2011 at 11:19 am

OMG! These are amazing! I made these for my family for Thanksgiving and they ALL wanted the recipe! :)

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mary boyd December 10, 2011 at 8:32 am

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?

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alice December 14, 2011 at 1:07 am

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.

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cassandra December 16, 2011 at 4:24 am

hi, i really want to try these but i only have self raising flour would that work?

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Jacqueline January 18, 2012 at 2:51 am

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 :D an idiot-proof recipe!

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Mallory January 19, 2012 at 3:10 pm

These are in my oven right now! I cannot wait to see how they turn out!!!

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Alex January 23, 2012 at 1:23 am

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

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