Nutella Hearts

I hadn't made muffins in a while and was dying to use my new heart shaped silicon muffin molds so, last night I tried out a new recipe and made these Nutella Muffin Hearts. They're dead handy to make and they don't take long at all, 15-20 mins max preparation time. I'm a huge fan of Nutella so I absolutely love these gooey, nutty, chocolaty muffins - I hope you do too!

INGREDIENTS

10 oz/ 285 g Self Raising Flour (sieved)

1 tsp Baking Powder (sieved)

5 oz/ 140 g Caster Sugar

100 ml Plain Yogurt

125 ml Milk

1 Egg (lightly beaten)

1 tsp Vanilla Essence

4.5 oz/ 130 g Butter

Handful of chopped and peeled Hazelnuts (optional)

Nutella (as much as you like!!)

5oz/ 140g Milk Chocolate (chopped into small chunks)

METHOD

1) Preheat oven to 200 C/ 400 F/ Gas Mark 6

2) Put butter in a bowl over a pot of simmering water and stir until fully melted

3) When fully melted, take the butter off the heat and add in the Milk, Yogurt, Essence and Eggs & mix it well

4) Put the Flour, Baking Powder chocolate chunks & hazelnuts into another bowl and mix

5) Pour the wet mixture into the bowl of dry ingredients and only stir it FIVE times - no more even though it seems as if it isn't mixed properly

6) Leave the mixture sitting and line a muffin tray with muffin cases

7) Spoon one spoonful of the mixture into each case

8) Put a spoonful of Nutella on top and finally put a second spoonful of the muffin mixture over that again and use a spoon to swirl the mixture 

9) Place in oven for 20 mins until golden 

10) When cooled slightly, cover the top of each muffin in a huge dollop of Nutella - YUMMMMYY

I used these heart-shaped muffin molds for mine
and I also added white chocolate chunks