Nutella Cake Frosting
This nutella cake buttercream frosting is rich, silky, smooth and absolutely delicious! For this recipe, I've paired fluffy chocolate cake with nutella drizzled between cake layers, nutella buttercream frosting, a chocolate drip and ferrero rocher chocolates on top.
Servings 12
Equipment
- Electric Stand Mixer
- Heat Proof Rubber Spatula
Ingredients
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- 5 egg whites
- 2 cups unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup nutella
Instructions
- Wipe down your mixing bowl, whisk and paddle attachments with a small amount of white vinegar.
- Create a double boiler on your stove by filling a medium saucepan with a couple inches of water. Do not let the water touch the base of the bowl. Put your egg whites and sugar in your bowl and place on top of the saucepan. Give them a whisk to combine.
- Cook your egg white and sugar mixture over medium heat stirring constantly until the mixture reaches 160 degrees F on a candy thermometer or until you can no longer feel any sugar granules between your fingertips. The mixture will be hot but should not burn you.
- Transfer your egg white and sugar mixture to the bowl of your electric stand mixer with the whisk attachment in place and whisk on high until the outside of your mixing bowl is no longer warm and you’ve achieved stiff peaks in your meringue. This can take between 8-12 minutes.
- Switch to the paddle attachment. Turn your mixer to low speed. Add in your cubed butter (2 tablespoon in size) one at a time, allowing each to be incorporated before the next addition.
- Scrape down the sides of your bowl, turn mixer to low speed and add in your vanilla. Mix to combine.
- Turn your mixer up to medium to high speed and mix for about 5 minutes until buttercream is completely incorporated, silky, and smooth.
- Add in nutella and mix on medium until fully incorporated.
- Turn the mixer onto low speed for 8 minutes. This helps to remove air bubbles that may have formed when whipping your buttercream.
- Remove the mixing bowl from the mixer and use a spatula to push the buttercream into the sides of the bowl. This helps remove any remaining air bubbles.