Easy Nutella Brownie Oreo Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting

So let’s talk about culinary school.

It’s pretty awesome. And I kind of love it.

We have lots of different classes, each of which run for a term. There has been cakes, pastries, bread, basic cooking, restaurant classes, hot and cold desserts, yeast goods, petit fours and more.

I absolutely loved hot and cold desserts, and pastries, and yeast goods. Basically I love the classes in which we make great food. And the classes in which we have good teachers.

Making croissants and danishes in yeast goods were my favourite classes. Hot, buttery pastries fresh out of the oven are amazing.

And in hot and cold desserts, we had an amazing teacher, who won the world championship in bread and pastry sculpture last year. Learning how to plate up desserts from him was awesome.

Then there are theory classes. Like hygiene, hospitality and food safety.

Those classes are ridiculous. And boring. there are only so many times you can be taught the same thing without starting to fall asleep on your desk.

One of the theory classes we had this semester was coaching. All we did the whole term was plan a coaching session, where in 10 minutes, we had to coach someone how to do something. Anything.

So I taught my friend how to frost cupcakes.

I’m completely and utterly over cupcakes after having to bake and ice them at work in the morning, so I made these Nutella brownies into cupcakes, stuffed them with an Oreo, and whipped up an easy Nutella frosting to teach her how to ice them with.

They were great! I loved them with frosting.

I taught her the basic technique I frost with at work, just using a star nozzle instead of a round one. Once we finished, everyone got to eat Nutella brownie cupcakes and they were a hit!

And my friend has been nagging me for the frosting recipe ever since.. so here you go Maddison!

Adapted from Abby Dodge.
Adapted from Kitchen Treaty.