Quick and easy Nutella frosting recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. This buttercream frosting is full of hazelnut and chocolate flavor. Super fudgy, smooth, creamy and perfect for piping cupcakes and cake decorating.
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Key ingredients for chocolate hazelnut buttercream icing
Variations
- Add some cream cheese or mascarpone-
- Mix in some peanut butter-
- Use it for cake decorating- Check out some of my cake design tutorials like this Football Cupcakes Cake or How to Make Buttercream Flowers (Russian Piping Tips) or even this Easy Camping Cake and especially in this Best Birthday Cake.
- Use it as a topping on brownies- Try it on these....
- For a dark chocolate flavor- Mix in ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder but you will also need to add some milk to get the desired smooth and creamy consistency.
- Pair this with cupcakes- Such as my...
- Pair it with cakes- It tastes delicious on my Vanilla Cake and Chocolate Popcorn Cake.
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Tips and techniques
How to make easy Nutella frosting recipe from scratch?
1. Mix butter and Nutella- Until smooth.
Recipe FAQs
No. On its own, you can use it as a filling but the consistency it just too thin for covering cakes, cake decorating or piping swirls on cupcakes.
Mix in additional milk.......Mix in more powdered sugar...... Add more questions that apply.
Storage
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Recipe
Easy Nutella Frosting (Buttercream)
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter Unsalted, Room temperature
- 1 cup Nutella Room temperature
- 5 cups Powdered sugar
- 2-3 tablespoon Whole milk Can also use half and half or coffee creamer or even heavy cream
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla extract Can also use hazelnut liqueur or hazelnut extract
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add butter and Nutella and mix until smooth.
- Add 3 cups powdered sugar, 2 tablespoon milk, vanilla extract and mix.
- Add remaining 2 cups powdered sugar and mix. Mix in more milk only if the icing is too thick.
- Continue mixing until icing is thickened and has a piping consistency.
- Frost your cakes, cupcakes or other desserts and enjoy.
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Notes
- Use full fat ingredients.
- Make sure you are using unsalted butter to prevent the end result from being too salty.
- All ingredients should be at room temperature because that yields the smoothest consistency.
- If icing is too thick, you can thin it out by mixing in more milk (about 1 teaspoon at a time).
- If icing is too thin, you can thicken it out by mixing in more powdered sugar (about ¼ cups at a time).
- Recipe can easily be doubled.
- To add more stability to this icing, use a combination of half butter and half shortening.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Nutrition
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