Nutella glaze is a hazelnut-chocolate-based creamy glaze made by Ferrero. Nutella spread is the main ingredient, with sugar, vegetable oil, hazelnuts, cocoa solids, and non-fat milk solids. Nutella frosting can be made in a variety of ways, with ingredients such as dairy, cocoa, or chocolate. Recipes come from home cooks and pastry chefs, with World Nutella Day encouraging experimentation and sharing of recipes.
Nutella glaze is a homemade hazelnut-chocolate-based creamy glaze sold by the Italian company Ferrero. The glaze mixes Nutella spread with ingredients such as dairy, cocoa or chocolate for use in confectionery and baked goods. Ground nuts are also a common ingredient in frosting recipes, which have grown in number and variation with the advent of World Nutella Day and online recipe sites.
The main ingredient of Nutella glaze – Nutella spread – is made with sugar, vegetable oil and hazelnuts, as well as cocoa solids and non-fat milk solids. Other ingredients include soy lecithin and vanillin, with sugar making up about 55 percent of the recipe, followed by vegetable oil. Hazelnuts account for 13 percent of Nutella and cocoa powder contributes 7.4 percent. Nonfat milk solids are a powdered form of skim milk, and soy lechithin is made from fatty tissue chemically extracted from soybeans. It gives food its creamy, spreadable texture, and vanillin is a synthetic version of vanillin made from the vanilla bean, slightly different from the vanilla extract used for home baking.
Nutella icing can be made in a variety of ways, the chef typically whips, folds, or whisks the Nutella spread with one or more ingredients. The dairy ingredients give the cream a frosty texture and texture, adding sweetness, tanginess, or a neutral, milky flavor to the finished product. Sweetened condensed milk, for example, sweetens and creates a rich, rich frosting. The cream cheese adds a tangy flavor that contrasts with the sweetness of the Nutella and creates a thick frosting. Heavy whipping cream fluffs the cream a bit for a mousse-like frosting, depending on the cream-to-cream ratio, and typically adds a subtle vanilla flavor.
Cocoa, baked chocolate, and chocolate chips can also make up Nutella frosting, as these ingredients create a frosting with a rich chocolate flavor, yielding secondary flavors to the nut and dairy ingredients. Cocoa powder is used less often in Nutella frosting, but its strong flavor works well for quick preparation without the need for melting. Baking chocolate works well for adding volume and a smooth, creamy texture to frosting. The semi-sweet baking chocolate should be melted in a double broiler over very low heat before adding to the glaze. Chocolate chips or morsels can be melted for a similar effect, although most have milk added and can burn easily when melting; they are best added without melting. A chef can also add chopped nuts such as pistachios, walnuts, or pecans for a rich, nutty flavor and texture.
Nutella frosting recipes typically come from home cooks or pastry chefs experimenting in the kitchen. The advent of World Nutella Day, established in 2006, has encouraged this, asking Nutella lovers to submit recipes with spreads on February 5 every year. The event website features a growing number of Nutella recipes for use in cupcake, cake, brownie and dessert recipes. Bakers around the world can also submit frosting recipes to online recipe sites where fellow bakers test, comment on, and perhaps tweak recipes.
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