July 5th
2005
We were invited over to a friends house last weekend. True Nutella lovers, indeed. Show up with a glass of Nutella and it is being ripped out of your hands before you can say Hello. I guess we've had our crazy Nutella times, we still like it, but we don't kill each other over it. There is probably a zillion ways to use Nutella and true Nutella fans are likely to come up with a few extra ways - or one simply admits the addiction and the fact that Nutella can be eaten spoon by spoon. Actually when we were kids, we didn't even need a spoon...
Being indecisive about what to bring to this invitation and while trying to get my stacks of notes and paper articles sorted out and tidied up, I stumbled across an old, hand written recipe from a friend of mine. The note certainly has seen better days, but the letters were all readable and described her favorite banana bread recipe, which I have baked a couple of times in the past years, but had completely forgotten about. Hmmm. Banana bread doesn't involve Nutella. Hmmm. But maybe it should?
Since O. and I both like to have an occasional feast of crepes with banana and Nutella, it got me an idea! Why not turn the banana bread into a muffin and add a decent amount of yummy Nutella? I really didn't have to think this one over...and to cut to the chase: It's a definite keeper. The muffins turned out delicious and - what I always have liked about the original recipe - super smooth and juicy. I substituted some of the bananas with Nutella, added some more milk. Who would have thought this could be so easy? The only thing I'll try to work on is their shape (I'd prefer muffins shaped like little mountains...), but since I knew how the original banana bread recipe turned out (luscious, dense - but quite flat...), it wasn't much of a surprise. While Oliver likes them when they're still warm, I think they're unbeatable when chilled for a few hours. They were topped generously with chocolate coating - it might look like Nutella, but it isn't. This is actually my favorite part of it: Biting in this well-chilled muffin and breaking the rather thick layer of cool and wonderful crunchy chocolate...
Cream together in a large bowl the eggs, butter and sugar, then fold in squashed banana and the Nutella. Whisk.
In a separate bowl, combine milk and baking soda and blend well. Also separately, mix the flour with the baking powder.
Now alternately blend in a part of the milk mixture, then a part of the flour mix, part of the milk, ... until everything is combined. Hereby you have better control over how the consistency of the dough develops.
Now pour batter into greased or paper-lined muffin tins and bake at 180° Celsius (350° Fahrenheit) in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes. Check if the muffins are done by poking in a wooden skewer - it should come out quite dry and almost clean. Put them out of the oven and let them cool down completely.
Add a thick layer of (milk) chocolate coating and optionally some decoration (nuts, sugar pearls, ...).
Nutella Banana Muffins
Recipe source: Own creation
Required time: preparation 15 min., baking time 25-30 min.
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Ingredients (yield: ~12 muffins):
2 eggs
125g soft butter
100g sugar
2 large ripe bananas
100g Nutella
100ml milk
1 tsp baking soda
250g flour
2 tsp baking powder
150g (milk) chocolate coating
for decoration: nuts, sugar pearls, ...
Oh how yummy! I wonder... hmm, maybe I should try this with my home made nutella... Looks (and sounds) lovely, as always Nicky!
yum, those look absolutely lovely, esp. with the sugar pearls! and i'm in luck. hubby just brought me back some nutella from germany (we have it here but it's always nice to get something chocolatey from somewhere else) and i have bananas starting to rot! perfect timing!
Nicky, it's awfully hard to hold back the drool over here! I'm a huge fan of both banana bread and Nutella, so these muffins of yours really speak my language. And that photo of the spoonful of Nutella is absolutely stunning. Thank you!
Looks delicious! And what a superfabulous way to use nutella. My favorite is on a spoon with a little peanut butter and a little nutella, but banana-nutella bread could be up near the top of the list.
The little pink dragees add just the right touch.
Oh my.... you have spoken directly to my heart. How I adore nutella! I must try this recipe... the pics look scrumptious! I must go and have a spoonful before bedtime!
wow, this sounds so wonderful. I will definitely have to try this one out. one of my favourite experiences while travelling through thailand was eating a massive roti, which was smothered in nutella, folded, then topped with banana. And if that wasn't enough they poured condensed milk on top too. Divine!
I also noticed that your blog is powered by wordpress. I am in the process of moving my blog to its own domain, and the host provides wordpress as its publishing tool. Do you have any suggestions on how to make the change over and apply a new template etc?
that picture of the single heaped spoonful of nutella is outrageously irresistable, love the idea of bananas and nutella, also love the conversion of banana bread (square or oblong) into little muffins.. how is it you guys are so creative??
I agree eatzycath
... my poor tongue is confused as to why licking the screen yields non-appetizing results...
can't wait for smell-o-vision!
PS, saffron- I moved my blog to Word Press, and it was fairly straight forward. I believe I had little problems using Word Press's support for such a task. Regarding new templates, look into Word Press's forum support. Also, go look up a site called Urban Giraffe. It has a nice "dissection" of Word Press's default template, which will allow you to make it look how you want.
When you say "milk chocolate topping" what do you mean?
How do you take such wonderful photographs?
Thanks for the recipe, I may try it this weekend!
just like to say your photos are great! you make a simple tub of nutella look so amazing!
am a total nutella addict - those baby cakes look fabulous...
Bananen-Nutella-Kuchen
Spontan Lust drauf gehabt. Delicious Days waren mal wieder die Inspiration. Sehr lecker-locker. Leider konnte ich spontan keine Muffinformen mehr bekommen, aber die gute alte Kuchenform hat’s auch wunderbar getan.
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I want this muffin right now!! I'm hungry!
Hi Laurence,
Thank you for pointing it out, the info is now included in the ingredients section. ‘Hope your kids will enjoy them ;)
Zarah Maria,
Home made Nutella, are you kidding? I’ll have to check your archive right away, I do hope that you have posted about it, right?!
stef, Molly, Mira, Christina, eatzycath, Noods, J, CelineCook,
Thank you! They’re really easy to make and sooo yummy. The sugar-pearls, by the way, were more a visual treat, they’re a little hard to bite :)
Hi saffron,
Since O. is running the Asian cuisine department, I’d have to ask him to make some roti for me and try your recipe.
As for the move from blogger.com to your own domain, McAuliflower posted a great link and resource. I’m amazed how much effort was put into this online guide. It’ll show you step by step on how to create your own layout and style. In terms of the actual data - your posts - I’m not sure if Blogger supports an SQL-interface to flexibly download all your writing in batch. If not, you may have to copy and paste each post from the blogger.com admin console to the WordPress admin interface.
Hey McAuliflower,
Your comment cracked me up :)) Just tried to picture you in front of your screen… And thanks for sending the link.
Hi thalia,
I’d say the ratio is probably 20:1, meaning: we take 20 pictures and if we are lucky there’s one O and I are happy with. Good thing we have a large enough memory stick in our digital camera. “(milk) chocolate coating” is a cocoa butter rich chocolate for coating your cakes etc. This is what my favorite online translation resource told me, anyway. I did some additional research, the correct translation for the used chocolate product is “couverture chocolate”, available as “dark” or “milk chocolate”.
One word, Nicky: Yum!
You guys are way to clever. How did you get the jar to morph into the spoon?
Those muffins look great! Bananas and chocolate are soooo good together, but I never thought of bananas and Nutella. Genius!
I used Nutella in the groom's cake at my wedding. It was a cheesecake with nutella swirl, covered in chocolate ganache. There wasn't a crumb left, but there was tons of bride's cake leftover.
Hi Nicky I made the muffins and they are fabulous. Thanks for sharing for the recipe.
This recipe was awesome. Thanks for sharing the recipe :) I enjoy your website very much. Keep up the great work & thanks again.
Hi Nicky, I made these muffins and they tasted much better than Store-Bought muffins.
Thanks for this noble creation and gorgeous photos :)
dear nicky,
your blog is really great and your recipe is amazing. I am addicted to nutella so Iam gonna make it as soon as possible !
thanks a lot
Hi Barbara,
The morphing is not too difficult to accomplish if you are a little familiar with flash (an animation program for screen design). It is basically two images fading in and out of each other. I’m glad the muffins turned out well ;)
Hi mine,
Great! Good to hear the recipe worked out for you as well :)
To all,
Wow, I’m impressed about the number of Nutella fans out there in food blogosphere! Thanks again for the kind words ;)
Hi Nicky! I did post about it, it's right in my archives if you want the recipe - it's actually one of the things I get the most google-hits from. It's not just in the food blogosphere people are going nuts over Nutella I suppose!!
Hey Zarah,
After a little search, I did find it (SHF#4 entry) on your blog, it looks delicious and I'm sure it tastes just the same - it's on my list :)
Vraiment exceptionnels, un vrai délices ces muffins!!!!! J'en ai encore l'eau à la bouche....
Bravo pour le blog, son design et les trop trop belles photos!
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i, 13 years old, am addicted to baking, and your recipe sounded SCRUMPTDIDLYUPTIOUS!!! sadly, as my mother dissaproves of nutella (well, most of the time), i shall have to persuade her..... wish me good luck!
The muffins came out great, but I have one question: How many grams were the bananas supposed to be? My muffins ended up tasting mostly of banana (though, still delicious) and the nutella taste was unfortunately overwhelmed.
So if you ever check back to this post, please let me know! I have to thank you though, because I seem to have forgotten about nutella after dieting and scrimping at the supermarket. Funny though it sounds, you've renewed my passion for Nutella! (:
Kyla, I'm not certain about the exact weight of the added banana, sort of did it by guess and by gosh. The good part of experimenting with the ratios is that you get to sample again and again and again...
I wanted to make this but I was wondering what milk chocolate topping consisted of? is it something you buy or make? thanks
Sarah, The milk chocolate topping could be either a store-bought chocolate coating or a good quality milk chocolate, which should be tempered.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, it seems delicious, perfects for my kids (they are addicted to Nutella), How many muffins do you got with this receipe?
Your blog is very yummy
(EDIT Nicky: I forgot to write down the yield of the recipe, just fixed it. The batter was a little too much for my muffin tray, which holds 12 muffins.)