Brimstone Bread Nutella Bombs
Sometime I find myself surrendering to some viral trend. The next recipe for these Nutella bombs is just an example. I’ve made them for Halloween, so if you’re looking for a Halloween themed recipe, this one is for you.
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Brimstone Bread Nutella Bombs:
Equipment:
- Baking Sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Cookie Cutter or a baking ring sized 12cm (d).
Recipe: 4 Huge Nutella Bombs
Dough (about 600g in total):
Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
Bread Flour | 230 |
Cake Flour | 70 |
Dry Yeasts | 1 |
White Granulated Sugar | 45 |
Salt | 3/4 |
Milk | 175 |
Eggs | 40 |
Softened Unsalted Butter | 35 |
Red Food Coloring | A few drops |
Cookie dough (Craquelin):
Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
Softened Unsalted Butter (Room Temperature) | 20g |
White Granulated Sugar | 20g |
Cake Flour | 45g |
Milk | 10g |
Black Cocoa Powder | 2.5g |
Filling: Nutella
Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
Nutella | QS |
Preparation instructions:
Cookie dough (Craquelin):
- In a small bowl, thoroughly mix the butter and sugar together.
- Add in the flour and cocoa powder and mix to combine. The add in the milk and mix to a dough with a pasty consistency.
- Roll the dough to a thin layer about 3mm thick, and freeze (30-60 minutes).
- Once the dough has sufficiently set, using a round cookie cutter (12cm [d]), cut out 4 circles (which will be used as Totoro’s “stomach”).
- Keep all pieces refrigerated until use.
Dough:
- In a standing mixer bowl fitted with the paddle attachment, add the flours, yeast, sugar, salt, milk, eggs and red food coloring.
- Knead on the lowest setting until a dough ball is formed.
- Gradually add in the butter until it is fully incorporated.
- Continue kneading on low speed for 10 minutes. The dough will be very soft and sticky.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl, shape it roughly into a ball, cover with plastic wrap, and proof at room temperature for 1 hour. Then, refrigerate for at least 2 additional hours, or preferably overnight.
Assembly and baking:
- Divide the dough to 4 pieces x 150g each.
- Flatten each piece with your hands to a disc, about 14cm in diameter.
- Generously fill each disc with Nutella (about 2 tbsps). Pinch the ends of the dough together to securely seal it, to avoid the filling running out of the buns.
- Place the buns evenly spaced, on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and proof for 45 minutes at room temperature. The buns will double their size.
- Place a cookie circle on top of each bun.
- Towards the end of proofing time, pre-heat your oven to 200C (fan mode off) with a baking rack placed at the lowest shelf inside the oven.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Then decrease the temperature to 180C and bake for 10 more minutes.
- Cool over a wire rack for 15-20 minutes before serving.