Nutella Buttons ~ Baking Chez Moi

Per Nana~

Let me start by saying that I REALLY need to work on my decorating skills. 

When Dorie said the yield of this recipe was 24 mini cupcakes I filled 24 cups 

with the first bit of cake batter plus the Nutella.  After doing that I realized I 

didn't have enough batter to fill each cup to the top. 

 When I frosted them I made such a mess on the cupcake papers (the cupcakes

 were well below the paper line) that I decided to quit after a half dozen.  

The next time I will do six at a  time. 

I found the cake batter to be unusual at first, but after folding in the egg whites

 it all came together.  These little morsels were quite tasty - even the few that

 did not have any topping, and I will certainly be making them again. 

Per Tricia~

I was delighted that my younger son, who is a huge Nutella fan, made it 

home from college in time for us to share these cupcakes. 

He is here less than a week, then heads to London for a summer 

program, so it was even more wonderful that the tight schedule worked 

in his favor....because he would not have wanted to miss it. 

"Nutella buttons" are basically a homemade cupcake with a spoonful of 

Nutella hidden inside prior to baking. The chocolate on top is not actually 

Nutella, but a home-made ganache found in the back of BAKING CHEZ MOI.

 While mine tasted fantastic, it was the ganache that gave me the most 

difficulty.  I must have messed up my ratios because I simply could 

not get it to thicken up. I went from counter tempering, to then trying
 the fridge, to finally trying the freezer.  Even that took a while.

The batter did have me worried because it looked like no cake batter

 I have ever made before. It was mealy and did not resemble the "paste" 

Dorie described until after the melted butter was added. I wasn't sure folding 

the whipped egg whites was going to work. Luckily, Nana had given me the

 heads up about possibly coming up short on batter so I prepared six at a time. 

I ended up with a dozen full sized cupcakes. It is a heavier cupcake than I 

am used to but there were no complaints from this household for the taste.  

Another fun week ~

This marks another Tuesday recipe testing as we cook along with the "Tuesdays with Dorie" online group.  Please note that we do not post the recipes, per the group rules, but we do encourage others to RUN out and buy their own copy of Dorie Greenspan's "Baking Chez Moi".  Better yet, buy the book and JOIN THE GROUP ! www.TuesdaysWithDorie.wordpress.com