This creamy and delicious Nutella frosting is a decadent topping for your cakes and filling your pastries. My recipes is a custard based frosting enriched with Nutella and butter, way superior vs. traditional buttercream frosting.
💡 Expert Tip: Chill the cream, if needed, for an hour before using. With chilling time, the butter will solidify making the frosting more stable
First, prepare the ingredients, the chocolate pastry cream is a custard made only in 10 minutes, I will provide recipe for that!
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Make a chocolate pastry cream by cooking milk with egg yolk then mixing chocolate in.
Then, cover the pastry cream with plastic wrap and let it come to room temperature
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Finally, whip the chocolate pastry cream with Nutella, cocoa powder and butter until smooth and fluffy.
Use this frosting on cakes, cupcakes, to fill choux pastry or tartlets.
With just a handful of simple ingredients, you can create a wonderfully rich and silky chocolate hazelnut frosting that will add a touch of elegance to any dessert.