Peanut Butter, Nutella, Choc Chip, Fudge!

Ok, once you have stopped drooling over the title of this post, take a look at the recipe below!

I found the original over here.

Ingredients

• 1 large egg
• 3/4 cup Nutella – I used the Pick n Pay Hazelnut Chocolate Spread (Its the closest one to Nutella I have ever tasted and its about a third of the price)

 

• 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed (I used light brown sugar)
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract (I used my home made extract)
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• pinch salt, optional and to taste
• 170 grams dark chocolate, chopped (I used about half a box of dark chocolate chips)

Method

• Using a hand beater (or stand mixer) combine the egg, Nutella, peanut butter, brown sugar, vanilla and beat to cream ingredients for about 5 minutes. 
• Add the flour, baking soda and salt.
• Mix until combined.
• Add the chocolate chips and using a wooden spoon mic until just combined.
• Scoop out batter roughly the diameter of a R5 coin and using your hands squeeze into balls. They will be very oily!
• Place on a sprayed baking tray.  About 5cm apart or about 6/8 balls per tray.
• Place your trays in the fridge for no less than 2 hours.
• Once chilled, set you oven to 180°C and bake each tray for 10 minutes.

Enjoy with a cup of coffee or a glass of cold milk!

Nutella Brownies aka Little Bites Of Heaven

I was browsing around on Pinterest and came across a recipe for Nutella brownies, I couldnt resist and decided to make them tonight…

Ingredients

• 1 cup Nutella
• 2 eggs
• 10 tablespoons flour

Method

• Set oven to 180ºC
• Mix all ingredients in a bowl
• Place mini cupcake cups on a baking sheet
• Fill cups with half a teaspoon of batter each
• Do not over fill, the brownies do rise up
• Bake for ±10 minutes

Really bad photo, REALLY good brownie!

 

Makes about 50 mini bites, next time I will try them in bigger cups

Hamantaschen

Its Purim!

My favourite part of Purim is eating hamantaschen with mon (poppy seeds) but since not everyone likes poppy seeds I decided to try my hand at making a Nutella hamantaschen.

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup butter or margerine
• Your choice of filling (you can use a poppy seed mixture, chocolate spread, jam or nuts)

 

Method

• Sift together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.
• Mix in eggs and butter (I melted the butter slightly in the microwave).
• Mix until a dough forms.
• Roll out the dough and cut out large rounds.
• Transfer the rounds to a greased baking tray and place a teaspoon of your filling in the middle.
• Fold  your circle on three ‘sides’ and pinch together to create a triangular parcel, leaving the  middle open so you can see the filling.
• Bake for 15 – 20min or until golden brown in a 180°C oven.

 

Enjoy!