Nutella Waffles

These Nutella waffles are a 30 minute recipe that combines a traditional, crisp buttermilk waffle laced with the chocolate hazelnut spread you know and love. Top your Nutella waffles with Nutella, some banana slices, and a drizzle of maple syrup? Now that’s breakfast.

So read on to learn all the detailed tips and tricks for this recipe. Or just grab your jar of Nutella, hit that Jump to Recipe button, and let’s make Nutella waffles!

Ingredients

Waffles are typically made with dry ingredients – flour and sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt – eggs, melted butter, and a liquid like buttermilk or milk. 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 a treat. If you want to control the amount of sugar in these waffles, you can make your own Nutella recipe.

Love Nutella? Check out other recipes for Nutella blondies, Nutella thumbprint cookies with Nutella ganache, Nutella banana bread, Nutella babka, or Nutella pop tarts.

Variations and substitutions

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

Some people separate their eggs to make lighter waffles. To do this, add the yolks to the mixer in the initial peanut butter and egg step (step #3). Then, once you’ve added the rest of the ingredients (i.e. through step #6), whip the egg whites using a hand mixer until stiff peaks form. Gently fold the whipped whites into the waffle batter and proceed to make the Nutella waffles according to your waffle maker instructions.

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

Combine your dry ingredients in a small bowl. Weighing ingredients is always a more reliable way to cook. It was particularly helpful with my kiddo before she mastered how to fill a measuring cup and level it off. Plus this way we worked on simple arithmetic and fractions.

In a mixer 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 the dry ingredients have been moistened. And all of these batters should be cooked right after making them.

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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