Nutella Buttercream Icing

Last night I cheated and made a Green’s chocolate cake…
I made it a little bit special by dolloping Nutella throughout the batter…

Then once it was cooked I decided that plain old normal butter icing wasn’t going to cut it.
So out came the Nutella again, and I made Nutella buttercream icing!
It was so good, even if I do say so myself.
Nutella always makes things better.
Always.

The only problem with me sharing this recipe is that I didn’t measure my ingredients. I almost always ‘wing it’ when making butter icing.. But I do have an old basic recipe that I used to use…

Buttercream Icing

Ingredients

• 185g Butter
• 2 1/4 Icing Sugar
• 2 tblsp Milk
• 1/2 – 1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste

Method

• Cream the butter with a little of the icing sugar.
• Gradually add the rest of the icing sugar at a medium speed.
• Add the vanilla and the milk.
• If you want a runnier/creamier consistency, slowly add more milk.
• If you accidentally add too much milk and your icing is too runny, just add a bit more icing sugar until it’s at your preferred consistency.

So that is my usual {and favourite} cake and patty cake topping.

To make it into Nutella butterceam icing these are the small changes I made -

• Add 2 tblsp Nutella to the butter and cream them together with a little of the icing sugar.
  {You can add more Nutella if you like, but this was enough to give it colour and enough flavour without being too overpowering}
• With the icing sugar, add a pinch of salt.

The Nutella gives the icing an even smoother and creamier consistency than just plain buttercream icing…
It’s almost velvet-like…
Delicious…!!