Nutella Love

     Well once again I have been slacking in the blog posts. On the plus side I have officially survived my fist two weeks of college. Let me tell you, I will never underestimate Chef's ever again. They work incredibly hard. After my first culinary class I thought that I was going to die. I'm not in school for culinary arts by the way...just in case any of you wanted to know... I'm actually in school for baking and pastry buuuuttt half of my classes are actually regular cooking classes. It's certainly a great learning experience though so I don't mind. Have you ever whisked mayonnaise by hand? Because I did in school this week and I highly DON'T recommend it...unless you enjoy the "my arm is going to fall off" felling. :D

      Anyway onto the baking of the week. This was actually 2 weeks ago I believe. I have the pleasure of being in a foodie club where my friend Kira posts 7 recipes and we all pick from one and make it ourselves. This week I actually had to make smore's cupcakes for my sister going away party...and they turned out AWESOME. I'm rambling again. Onto the muffin!!

 Nutella Stuffed Cinnamon Sugar Muffins 

Recipe addapted from sallysbakingaddiction.com

INGREDIENTS

1/3 cup unsalted butter, room temp

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup milk

1&1/2 cup all purpose flour

1&1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp salt

16 tsp Nutella

FOR THE TOPPING

1/4 cup sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

3 tbsp unsalted butter

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 425F. Spray your muffin tin and set it aside. Once again I always use liners because its easier to clean and it looks nice.
2. In a medium bowl mix together your flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
3. In a large mixer bowl cream together you sugar and butter. Mix in your vanilla, milk and egg.
4.  Slowly and gently mix in your flour mixture until just combined. You don't want to over mix
5. Fill the bottom of your muffin tins with about 1 tbsp of mix. Then place 2 tsp of nutella on top of the mix. Top the nutella with the rest of your muffing mix. You should have about 8-9 muffins so do not freak out that it doesn't look like a lot of batter.
6. Place in the oven and bake for 5 minutes and then lower the oven temp to 350 and bake the rest of the way. 12-17 minutes.
7. Allow the muffins to cool for about 5 minutes before putting on the topping.
8. For the topping melt your butter in the microwave. In a bowl mix together the cinnamon and sugar. Brush the butter on top of each muffin and then dunk the top of the muffin into the cinnamon sugar mixture.

      That is all there is to it. It was a prefect little breakfast muffin and I hope those of you that look at it will be encouraged to try it. 


     This week once my school load is lightened I'll be practicing my cupcake skills paired with buttercream icing. I need to prefect it before I go and visit my Aunt Virginia who I haven't seen in years! She's a big buttercream lover so I don't want to let her down. Which means I will be putting buttercream on everything until it get it perfect!