Nutella Swirl Cupcakes

Today Leek and I made Nutella Swirl Cupcakes. Boy are they delicious, but unfortunately Leek is allergic to nuts, so he could not try the cupcakes with Nutella in them. I hate the smell anyways. I have like 2 large jars and 1/3 of a container left of Nutella (coming up next year), so I thought I would make some Nutella treats to use them up faster =) Even though Leek does not like Nutella (he dislikes chocolate AND nuts), being the sweetie he is, he still helped me to make them <3 Shocking as it is, I really do not like chocolates or nuts. Thus, foods with chocolates and nuts tend to be nightmarish for me (and can poison me too...).


I got the original recipe from I'm a Glutton, but I changed up the recipe a little. So here is the recipe I used to make mine! This recipe makes 12 muffin pan sized cupcakes.

• 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 3/4 cups ifted all purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/3 cup Nutella (or more =)
  

1. Preheat oven to 325F.
2. Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners.
3. Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 2 minutes.
4. Add in eggs one at a time, until fully incorporated. Don’t worry if the batter doesn’t look smooth.
5. Add vanilla.
6. Stir in flour, salt and baking powder until batter is uniform and no flour remains.
7. Scoop batter into muffin cups until 1/2 to 3/4 full.
8. Top each cup of batter with 1 1/2 tsp Nutella. Swirl Nutella in with a butterknife, making sure to fold a bit of batter up over the Nutella.
9. Bake for 20 minutes.
10. Remove to a wire rack to cool completely.


You can add a little more Nutella to each cupcake if you want. Visit I'm a Glutton's link above to read up on her technique on how to swirl the Nutella. It definitely works better than using a flimsy toothpick as the original recipe called for. The hardest part of this recipe is swirling the Nutella, but trust me, in the end, it is all worth it! For Tamato at least. I can't eat it.

P.S. In the second photo, you can see that there is a plain white cupcake, we left that one Nutella free so my honey can have a bit of cupcake too as he loves them =) <3 Yep! I like plain cupcakes. They are far superior to nutella ones (although I am a little biased)!