for an Easter surprise

 NUTELLA BUNNIES

INGREDIENTS:

• 1.5 cups flour
  
• 0.3 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 stick butter (100g, unsalted)
• 1 egg
• 0.5 bar dark chocolate (50g)
• 0.5 cup hazelnuts

• 1.5 cups cream cheese
• 0.5 cup nutella
• 0.7 cup heavy cream
• 3 teaspoons caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon stabilizer for whipped cream

• 0.5 bar dark chocolate
• 48 almond flakes
• 12 teaspoons nutella

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In one bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk together the melted butter, milk and egg in another separate bowl.

2. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ones and stir until roughly combined. Fold in half a bar of grated chocolate and chopped hazelnuts.

3. Fill paperliners with the batter.

BAKE:   17 min.   180° C

4. Mix the cream cheese with nutella.  Whip the cream with the caster sugar and stabilizer. Delicately, combine both creams and let the frosting cool.

5. Melt the rest of the chocolate. On baking paper, form ears, noses and whiskers with the chocolate. Use it on half of the almond flakes to build eyes. Let the chocolate cool in the refrigerator.

6. Cover each of the muffins, once cooled, with a tablespoon of nutella and plenty of the nutella cream cheese frosting. Stick in the ears and whiskers and garnish with the chocolate noses and almond eyes and teeth. Let them cool in the refrigerator.