Feb. 5th, World Nutella Day

I know this is a day behind and I am sorry to the World Nutella Day organizers.  Life got the better of my planning.

I loooovvvveeeee Nutella.  I wrote about it earlier here, when I was introduced to it in France.  I think I have had a jar of it in my cupboard every since.  Other than on crêpes, I enjoy it routinely with bananas and peanut butter as a sandwich.

I am not the most inventive baker.  I am still really only confident following established recipes so that I don’t poison anyone.  So for World Nutella Day I choose a (very slight) variation on the Sprinkles Strawberry Cupcake from Martha Stewart with a Nutella Buttercream from a previous year’s World Nutella Day.**

They were a little dense, probably because of the butter milk, but hubby likes Hope the office likes them because that is where they are going tomorrow!

Just out of the oven!

Iced and ready to serve.

**My changes are as follows: used buttermilk instead of whole milk in the batter and added about 1\4 of cocoa powder for added chocolate, added 1/3 more icing sugar and 1/4 cup of crushed whole hazelnuts to the icing.

Thanks to MsadventuresinItaly and Bleedingexpresso for making this happen.