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The Nutella Cookbook: Steal This Book?

September 4, 2013 By Kate Heyhoe

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The Nutella Cookbook, shaped like the actual jar

Nutella cookbook, shaped like the actual jar, or get the ebook

Would you steal Nutella?

In 2013, thieves stole $21,000 worth of Nutella from a warehouse in Germany. College cafeterias face massive losses from pilfered Nutella. Columbia University is reportedly losing $5000 a week, $250,000 a year, because students are sneaking copious amounts of the stuff back to their dorms.

So what is Nutella, and why all the fuss? It’s a creamy hazelnut and chocolate spread. Not dark chocolate (I so wish it was!) but a motherly milk chocolate that plucks at the comfort-food heartstrings of people around the globe.

When I lived in Europe, Nutella was everywhere – an everyday food-fixture, like peanut butter in the States. Nutella has since been discovered in America. A few years ago, you could only find it in specialty stores. Now it’s in every supermarket; fan websites swoon over it; and there’s even a World Nutella Appreciation Day (lots of drama here: Nutella’s makers at first shut down the site and event, but reversed course in response to public outrage.)

Enter: Nutella: The 30 Best Recipes. It’s a die-cut cookbook in the shape of a Nutella jar. Presumably, you could give this book with a real Nutella jar as a combo gift (perhaps find a black-market jar for cheap, in Germany?).

For those who want to take Nutella to new heights, here’s a round up of recipes from Nutella:

  • Nutella and Orange Whoopie Pies
  • Mini-Nutella Croissants
  • Nutella Truffles

From:

Nutella: The 30 Best Recipes, by Ferraro U.S.A. Also available as an ebook.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: chocolate, cookbook, Nutella

Nutella and Orange Whoopie Pies

September 4, 2013 By Kate Heyhoe

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Nutella_Whoopie_Pies_khThe combination of Nutella and orange makes eating these little cakes complete bliss…

Makes 15 Whoopie Pies

Preparation: 30 min. Cooking: 10 –15 min. Chilling time: 1 hour

For the cream filling:

  • 1 orange
  • 75 g (5 tbsp) unsalted butter
  • 50 g (1/4 cup) caster/superfine sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 75 g (1/3 cup) Philadelphia-style cream cheese

 For the whoopie pies:

  • 125 g (1-3/4 cups) plain/all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 40 g (3 tbsp) unsalted butter
  • 40 g (scant 1/4 cup) caster/superfine sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 100 g (scant 1/2 cup) Nutella
  • 20 g (2 tbsp) cocoa powder
  • 100 ml (scant 1/2 cup) semi-skimmed milk
  • a pinch of salt

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C (350 degrees F/Gas 4).

2. Make the cream filling. Finely grate the orange zest and squeeze the juice. Melt the butter in a bain-marie or in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Add the sugar, egg and the juice and zest of the orange. Beat continuously until the mixture thickens. Remove from the heat and leave to cool. Beat in the cream cheese; then chill for 1 hour.

3. Make the whoopie pies. Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, beat together the butter and sugar. Add the egg, Nutella, cocoa powder and milk. Mix well then add the flour and baking powder mixture.

4. Place 30 small spoonfuls of the mixture on a baking sheet covered with baking parchment. Bake for 10–15 minutes. Remove from the oven, leave to cool on a cooling rack, then sandwich together with the cream filling.

For more recipes:

Nutella: The 30 Best Recipes, by Ferraro U.S.A. Also available as an ebook.