This recipe started with me in the waiting room of my daughters’ dentist reading Family Circle. My eyes happened upon a recipe for Chocolate Hazelnut Pie submitted by Brenda Melancon of Gonzales, Louisiana. Nutella? Oreo Crust? Yes please. I took a photo of the recipe with my phone and went on with my life. Fast forward to now and World Nutella Day.
Just in case you don’t know what Nutella is, it is a sweetened chocolate hazelnut spread. Think ultracreamy peanut butter with hazelnuts instead of peanuts and with chocolate and sugar melted in. There are other chocolate hazelnut spreads, but Nutella is the biggest and the best.
I was first introduced to to this sinful concoction by my husband. As a teenager living in Germany, he used to spread Nutella on fresh crusty rolls called Brotchen. That was breakfast. My favorite way to eat Nutella is out of the jar with a spoon (I can’t keep it in the house), but this dessert may come in a close second.
I used the original recipe in Family Circle as a jumping off point for my own Nutella Cream Pie. I felt it necessary to double the Nutella because I find that Nutella flavor is diluted when mixed with other ingredients and baked. Second, I added more chocolate so that it would be sufficiently chocolatey. Lastly, I added a little salt and vanilla to amp up the flavors a bit.
The resulting pie was rich, chocolatey, smooth and crunchy. It’s pretty fantastic actually. All hail Nutella!
Nutella Cream Pie
Adapted from a recipe by Brenda Melancon of Gonzales, Louisiana
CRUST
- 25 oreos
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- large pinch of kosher salt
FILLING
- 1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese, softened
- 2/3 cup Nutella Spread
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate, melted
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- large pinch of kosher salt
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup toasted hazelnuts, finely chopped
TOPPING
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup toasted hazelnuts, coursely chopped
- additional Nutella for drizzling, warmed gently in the microwave
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Process Oreos in a food processor until fine crumbs. Mix in melted butter and a large pinch of kosher salt.
Press into the bottom and sides of a 9-inch pie plate.
In a mixer, blend together the cream cheese, Nutella, chocolate, sugar, vanilla and salt. Mix until thoroughly incorporated, about 1 minute. Add the egg and mix until glossy and smooth, about 1 more minute. Stir in the chopped toasted hazelnuts.
Pour all this into the Oreo crust.
Bake in for 30 minutes until the center is just set.
Let cool to room temperature. Put the cream, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla in a mixer and whip until soft peaks form. Spread the sweetened whipped cream over the pie. Sprinkle with remaining chopped hazelnuts and drizzle with warm Nutella.
Yummm! I may have had two slices. Don’t judge me. Now where is my spoon to eat the rest of that jar of Nutella?
can i skip on the egg? to shorten bake time. since i want to use a nilla wafer crust, and that only requires 10 min bake time.
Hmmmm. You’ve got me thinking. Actually, you could probably leave out the egg, maybe whip 1/2 cup of heavy cream to soft peaks and fold that in at the end and turn this whole think into a refrigerated “no bake” dessert. Technically, you don’t need to bake a cookie-based crust (graham cracker, oreo or nilla wafer), but if you wanted to, you could bake the crust empty and then let it cool completely before adding the “no bake” filling. The tricky thing with a no bake filling is making sure that the ratios of solid to liquid are such that it firms up into something that you can slice at the end. I think I will file this for future experimentation. In the meantime, if you want more of a sure thing, you might try this recipe for no bake nutella pie which can be found all over the Interwebs. Good luck and let me know how it goes. Best, Heather
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Hey Heather – this pie looks amazing – I love your blog in general – your photography is so amazing and professional! Nice styling! So great to re-make your acquaintance last Thursday night at Lyon Hall. I’m excited about Scratch!! xoxo Suzanne
Same here Suzanne. It was great to reconnect. Looking forward to seeing you again soon. — Heather
This looks absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! It’s fine to celebrate World Nutella day a few days right? I should probably celebrate extra hard to make up for my tardiness….
when I`m looking at this I`m really hungry
with such delicious combo it must be awesome! I`m so glad I found your blog and I`m going to stop by your blog more often 
I guess I really need to try this Nutella stuff. If it has it’s own day, it must something special! Your pie sounds delicious!
Wow wow wow. I want to make this. I NEED to make this. It looks so good!
Oh man!! I am loving this! Anything with Nutella is fabulous…I can’t wait to try this! Yummy!
Oh gosh, that Nutella Cream Pie is GORGEOUS!!! Can I have a slice?
Hmmmm, how many jars of Nutella did you buy to end up with one fabulously rich pie? Even a ctioli That is chocolate, take it or leave it, person like me wants chocolate and hazelnut. Yummy!
Oh my this tart is to die for!!