Nutella Waffles

These Nutella waffles are a traditional, crisp buttermilk waffle laced with chocolate hazelnut spread and ready in just 30 minutes. Top your Nutella waffles with Nutella, some banana slices, and a drizzle of maple syrup? Now that’s breakfast.

So read on to learn the detailed tips and tricks behind this smart, from-scratch recipe – only if you want to. Or just grab your jar of Nutella, hit that purme Jump to Recipe button, and let’s make Nutella waffles!

Ingredients

Buttermilk waffles are typically made flour and sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt (the dry ingredients), eggs, and melted butter. This Nutella waffle recipe adds Nutella to the classic mix.

About Nutella

Nutella is a chocolate and hazelnut spread that’s been made by the Italian company, Ferrero, since the 1960s.

Fun fact: the company supposedly uses one-quarter of the world’s supply of hazelnuts, which are primarily grown in Turkey.

With its first two Nutella ingredients being sugar and palm oil, these Nutella waffles are definitely an indulgence. If you want to control the amount of sugar in these waffles, you can make your own Nutella recipe.

Love chocolate and hazelnut? Check out other my Nutella recipes like Nutella blondies, Nutella thumbprint cookies with Nutella ganache, Nutella muffins, Nutella banana bread, Nutella babka, or Nutella pop tarts.

Variations and substitutions

Add chopped hazelnuts. Blanch hazelnuts, then toast and chop them finely.

If you have a sourdough starter, you can make sourdough Nutella waffles just like these sourdough discard waffles. If you have a 100% hydration starter, simply switch out equal amounts of flour and buttermilk for your weight of sourdough discard.

Cooking with kids

Kiddo saw me take out those ingredients and immediately asked if she could help make these Nutella waffles. If you have young kids, here’s a few tips for getting kids in the kitchen without increasing your stress.

The most important lesson is probably this. If you involve a child in your cooking and baking, expect it to take at least twice as long!

Step by step

Pancake and waffle recipe typically use the muffin method, where the wet ingredients are added to the dry ingredients and gently combined. Because the chocolate hazelnut spread is thick, it’s easier for these Nutella waffles to do it in reverse.

Combine your dry ingredients in a small bowl. Weighing ingredients is always more reliable, and it’s helpful with young kids who don’t know how to fill and level a measuring cup. Plus this way we worked on simple arithmetic and fractions.

In a large bowl, combine the Nutella and eggs by hand. Or use a hand mixer at low speed until smooth.

Add the buttermilk and melted butter and mix until combined. Then stir in the dry ingredients.

If you ever need to combine things gently so as not to overmix a batter like this Nutella waffle batter, give it to a child. Waffle batter, just like pancake and muffin batters, should be mixed only until you moisten the dry ingredients.

Your waffle batter might be a little lumpy, and that’s ok. Go ahead and scoop the batter onto your preheated waffle iron. This recipe will make six half-cup Nutella waffles.

What to serve with Nutella waffles

• Maple syrup and sliced banana
• More Nutella!
• Chopped hazelnuts
• Whipped cream
• A sweet coffee cocktail like this espresso martini with Baileys

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