Get your dose of coffee with an indulgent Nutella glaze to start your morning!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I cannot even begin to tell you how happy I am that I don’t have to work today. I don’t need to wake up at 4:45 AM and then sit in traffic for an hour going to and from work. Instead, I will be spending the day with Jason, cooking throughout the day, possibly going to Ikea, and watching the Eastern conference finals game 1 with the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat. I’m no basketball fan so I pretty much sit next to Jason and ask stupid questions while he’s so focused on the game.
In addition to all my Memorial Day activities, I will also be devouring these muffins. It’s a coffee base muffin paired with a wonderful nutty hazelnut streusel topping, finished off with a Nutella Glaze. Yes, you heard me right. I said Nutella. Glaze. I actually had no idea that you could make a glaze out of this awesome hazelnut spread. It’s seriously amazing as to what you can do with a little bit of powdered sugar and milk. Had I known that this was possible, I would’ve topped off all my muffins with this decadent glaze!
Here’s how you make these awesome coffee-licious, hazelnutty muffins that are a sure way to wake you up in the morning:
First, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and line a muffin pan with some cute liners. Cooking spray will also work just fine.
We then make the streusel topping by combining the hazelnut meal, brown sugar and allspice. Now I found that hazelnut meal is super expensive so instead, I bought a bag of hazelnuts and ground them up real nice in the food processor. Easy, simple, fresh, and inexpensive.
Add some cold butter cubes to the bowl, using your fingers or a pastry cutter to work them into the dry ingredients until it gets really crumbly.
I like using my hands for this. Mushing up butter with my fingers is incredibly therapeutic for me.
Now that we made the streusel, go ahead and combine the dry ingredients for the muffins.
Then whisk together the wet ingredients – coffee, butter, egg and vanilla.
Then we combine the wet to dry ingredients. Remember not to overwork the batter.
Scoop up the batter evenly into the muffin tray. I had 11 muffins again! Ugh. Don’t forget to top these babies off with that hazelnut streusel you made earlier and pop them in the oven for about 17 minutes, or until they’re golden brown, puffy, and oh-so-aromatic.
Now to make this decadent glaze, combine the Nutella, powdered sugar and milk. When you’re done, be sure to lick off the residual glaze off your whisk. It’d be a crime not to.
Here comes the best part – drizzle this awesomeness onto each muffin top.
You should really let the glaze set before diving into these but I’d be a hypocrite if I said that.
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