Chocolate & Hazelnut Butter Rolls
 
 
Sweet, tender brioche rolls filled with chocolate and hazelnut spread.
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 2 tsp dry active yeast
  • ¾ cup (190ml) milk
  • 1 egg, plus 1 egg yolk, to decorate
  • 2 cups (300g) plain flour
  • ⅓ cup (75g) caster sugar (aka superfine sugar)
  • big pinch of salt
  • 1 stick (115g) butter, cubed
  • 12 tbsp Nutella
  • chopped hazelnuts, to decorate
Instructions
  1. In a small bowl, whisk together the yeast, milk and egg, and set aside.
  2. Place the flour, sugar and salt into a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer.
  3. Add the butter and work into the flour, using your fingers, or the paddle attachment of your mixer, until it looks like fine breadcrumbs.
  4. Add the yeast mixture, and then mix everything together and knead for at least 10 minutes, or until smooth. In a stand mixer, with the dough hook, this should take about 5 minutes.
  5. Cover the bowl with plastic, and leave in a warm place for an hour, or until doubled in size.
  6. When the dough has risen, line a baking sheet with baking paper, and preheat the oven to 400F/200C.
  7. Punch down the dough, and tip out on to a lightly floured surface. Roll the dough out into a large circle, just over ¼ inch (1/2 cm) thick.
  8. Slice the circle like a pizza, into 12 wedges. Take one wedge at a time, and smear on a tablespoon of nutella, making sure to leave a nice border of dough around the edge.
  9. Starting from the bottom of the triangle, roll each piece dough up into a croissant shape and place onto the lined baking sheet. Leave in a warm place for a further 15 minutes.
  10. Beat the remaining egg yolk with a little water, and brush each of the rolls gently, making sure not to disturb the shape of the layers.
  11. Sprinkle with chopped hazelnuts, and then bake for 20 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked through. Leave them to cool slightly, as the filling will be ferociously hot, and then dig in. Absolutely perfect with a hot chocolate.
Recipe by The Sugar Hit at http://www.thesugarhit.com/2014/10/chocolate-hazelnut-butter-rolls-recipe.html