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{4 Ingredients} Nutella Brownies

Last update: March 6, 2018 By Alice Currah 173 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!

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4 Ingredients Nutella Brownies
Author: Savory Sweet Life
Recipe type: Dessert
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
  • ½ cup Nutella spread
  • 1 large egg
  • 5 tablespoons all=purpose flour
  • ½ 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 ¾ 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, ¼ teaspoon (add with the flour) * peanuts, chopped, ¼ cup
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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

Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: brownies, Chocolate, dessert, easy, Nutella

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  1. Ms. Anthrope says

    May 30, 2017 at 3:13 pm

    Wow – pretty hostile response( to a complete stranger) for a book author and blogger. That said, great recipe. Everyone loves these.

  2. jinglebells says

    July 24, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    it says mini muffin pan

  3. Alice Currah says

    June 25, 2015 at 9:05 am

    Plain flour.

  4. Alice Currah says

    June 25, 2015 at 9:03 am

    In the post it states MINI cupcake bites. Not sure how you arrived at a standard sized cupcake tin. Considering you are a professional baker, I would have assumed you would have noticed the yield of the batter before baking to know these weren’t going to fill a standard size tin – maybe 3 regular sized tins.

  5. BornToBake says

    June 25, 2015 at 6:44 am

    BAKERS BEWARE: The ingredient measurements are inconsistent with the yield, or, in other words, YOU WILL NOT GET 12 STANDARD SIZE BROWNIE/MUFFINS – YOU WILL GET 6. Using a mini muffin tin will yield about 10-12. It’s hard to believe that so many readers have responded to this recipe claiming they have made these and have not mentioned this basic information at all; I am a professional baker and I knew the minute I read the recipe it wouldn’t yield 12 . Also, the baking time is longer than 11-12 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Use a timer, test them at 12 minutes and judge for yourself – personally, I like my brownies fully baked, not raw in the center (and I have a Viking stove which is pretty darn good when it comes to baking!).

  6. Avery says

    June 25, 2015 at 6:34 am

    AND HOW MANY BROWNIES DID YOU GET?

  7. Priya says

    June 18, 2015 at 6:53 am

    I just made these brownies and loved them. I simply replaced the egg with banana. Stop by my blog as just shared recipe giving a link back 🙂

    http://priyakitchenette.com/2015/06/eggless-nutella-banana-brownies/

  8. MsPieceofPie says

    January 9, 2014 at 7:21 am

    I love this recipe. It’s so simple and easy to make. Plus, it’s yummmm. My family love these.

  9. annie karcher says

    October 27, 2013 at 10:50 pm

    You might applesauce or banana.

  10. Kayla says

    September 23, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    Banana! Just put in enough smushed banana to get the same consistency

  11. Cookware Super Sale says

    August 11, 2013 at 12:36 am

    Hi there! I could have sworn I’ve been to your blog before but after browsing through many of the articles I realized it’s new to me.
    Nonetheless, I’m definitely pleased I came across it and I’ll be book-marking it and checking back often!

  12. confused says

    August 4, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    is it ok to use Cadbury chocolate spread instead of using nutella?

  13. Cezara says

    July 8, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    350 degrees in celsius or farenheit?

  14. Niamh says

    July 1, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    First time baking with my three girls and these are in the oven as we speak. Hope they like them :). Super easy recipe. There goes the alarm 😉

  15. Kylie says

    June 17, 2013 at 10:14 pm

    Thank you so much for this recipe! I was having a craving for something chocolatey and yummy, and this was definitely it! Not only are they moist and rich, but they are the perfect amount of chocolate, and because it doesn’t make TOO much like some mixes and recipes, this made the perfect amount for me to not feel bad if I eat the whole pan! I made mine in a round 7 or 8 inch pan, upped the time by a minute and only used 4 tablespoons of flour instead of 5!they came out perfectly! Again, thank you so much!

  16. Jane Rüffert says

    June 12, 2013 at 9:30 am

    plain flour or selfraising? (Nutella muffins) ? Thank you

  17. Jane Rüffert says

    June 12, 2013 at 9:30 am

    Plain or self raising flour? (Nutella Muffins)

  18. Karla says

    June 9, 2013 at 2:07 am

    We loved this recipe! We double it and made it on the electric oven, it took a bit more time but all the recipes seem to take longer to bake where we live. It was a little dry, maybe we should use less flour next time. So easy and fast to make! 🙂

  19. Mandy says

    May 26, 2013 at 1:12 am

    This tastes delish. I baked this and it was gooey on the inside and nice and chewy on the outside. Awesome recipe!

  20. Kristine says

    April 24, 2013 at 8:17 pm

    These look and sound great! I’ll be making them today for my snack 🙂

  21. bonnie says

    March 2, 2013 at 5:46 am

    Just made these!!! Wow..delish!!! Did tweak the recipe slightly. Doubled it minus 1 tbsp of flour and added 6 oz of semi=sweet choc chips. Came out fantastic

  22. Aniela says

    February 9, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    Didn’t like these. Were quite dry. Won’t be making again

  23. irishbird208 says

    January 24, 2013 at 10:53 am

    Um, how bout you calm down and go make yourself a freakin sandwich.

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