Salted Nutella Brownies

Let’s all pretend bathing suit season isn’t right around the corner, and indulge in some Salted Nutella Brownies this weekend.

I recently hosted an event that, long story short, left me with two MASSIVE Costco-sized jars of Nutella sitting in my kitchen, staring me in the face every day.  On Day 1, this is a pretty cool thing — “Look at all the Nutelllaaaaaaaa!”, but by Day 25, you start wondering how much Nutella you’ve actually eaten, and was it really necessary to add a dollop to your morning smoothie ( Hint: It wasn’t. )

I needed a game plan to get rid of all of it, so I defaulted to the best way I know how to get rid of food: take it into the office.

Now, I probably could have brought the random jars into the office and seen them quickly disappear, but I also wanted to use the opportunity to experiment a little ( and if experimenting with chocolate hazelnut brownies isn’t a great way to spend your weekend, I don’t know what is! )

In my experience, the things people love the best in group settings are items that can be picked up and walked off with.  Brownies perfectly fit this bill.  Since I had roughly a billion cups of Nutella to work with, I figured I’d just skip the cocoa powder and slap some Nutella into my brownie recipe.  That didn’t work out so well the first time, but never fear! I persisted and it payed off.

Are these gooey Nutella Brownies?

I played around with the cooking time a lot on this recipe, and finally came to the conclusion that you’re just going to have to decide what kind of brownie you want, because I made them gooey / fudgy, and I made them cakey, and I really thought they were both excellent.  The brownies in the pictures are with the longer, “cakey” cooking time, in case you are looking for a direct replica!

If you like this Nutella Brownie Recipe, you might also like:

• Nutella Baked Brie
• Snickers Cheesecake

Salted Nutella Brownies

Nutella brownies that can be fudge-y or cake-y depending on your choice of cooking time!

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Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Servings: 9 brownies

Author: Basil and Bubbly

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup softened butter
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup Nutella
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 3/4 cup flour

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease an 8x8 pan ( or spray with cooking spray).
• With a mixer, mix together the butter and both sugars until completely combined.
• Add eggs and vanilla, mix to combine.
• Add the Nutella and 1/2 of the salt.
• Add flour.
• Pour into pan. Sprinkle top with remaining half of salt.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes for fudge-y brownies with crisp edges, or bake for 45 - 50 minutes for cakey brownies.

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