I’ve recently fallen in love with pastry. I’ve always enjoyed eating it, but hate making it. I found it tedious and the results were usually disappointing. However, this year I’ve turned a corner and now find it less of a chore to make and despite using different recipes I’ve had a number of successes. It’s taken me a long time, but now I want to make tarts -lots of them. I even bought six more tartlet tins for a recent pop-up I was catering for, which brings the count up to ten. When I was sent a little Nutella book, 30 Nutella Recipes, a few weeks ago to see what I thought of it, I had no hesitation in deciding which recipe I was going to try first. Banana and Nutella tartlets it had to be.
I didn’t follow the recipe exactly – no surprises there. I used some wholemeal flour in the pastry and one whole egg rather than two egg yolks. As I used a large duck egg, I had no need to add the required milk. And I found I only needed to use two rather than the three bananas stated.
This is how I made:
Banana and Nutella Tartlets
- Cut 180g unsalted butter into 255g flour (half wholemeal, half white). Added a large pinch of rock salt and a tbsp of vanilla sugar (caster).
- Rubbed the butter into the flour with my hands until it resembled breadcrumbs.
- Added one large duck egg (which was actually a little too big and made for a rather damp mixture).
- Quickly mixed into a ball, put it into a plastic bag and placed in the fridge for an hour.
- Rolled the pastry out and cut circles to fit six 10 cm tartlet tins (although I actually made 11).
- Baked at 200C for 10 minutes.
- Spread 1 tbsp of Nutella over each of the six tartlet bases.
- Cut 2 bananas into slices and lay a sixth of the slices over the Nutella. The recipe stated 3 bananas, so I guess it depends on their size.
- Roughly chopped 50g macadamia nuts and scattered the pieces over the banana.
- Put back in the oven and baked for a further 10 minutes.
I ate the first one whilst it was still warm from the oven and it was absolutely scrumptious, They had slightly caramelised around the edges and the banana and Nutella together made for a winning combination. I was very tempted to wolf down another one, but restrained myself. The tarts were almost as good cold. However, the bananas started to go brown after a couple of hours out of the oven. When I make these again, as I surely will, I will try dipping the banana slices in lemon juice which should help retain their colour.
The pastry made enough for eleven tartlets rather than the six stated in the recipe, but that was fine. The cases would keep for a while and I could use them for other purposes. However, I did feel that the quantities were a little off, not everyone wants lumps of spare pastry hanging around their fridge or freezer.
The book comes in the shape of a Nutella jar which is really rather fun. I liked the sturdy design with its thick, almost cardboard like pages that lie flat (ish) once opened. Each recipe is on one page with a rather delectable picture of the finished article on the opposite side. The recipes themselves are really quite interesting and I will certainly be trying out a few more. The financiers as made recently by the Caked Crusader are definitely on my list as is the coconut coulants, tuiles and mango spring rolls. If nothing else, this book shows you there is a lot more to Nutella than simply spreading it on bread. However, if you’re a real Nutella fan, this book is definitely for you.
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On Dutch crispbakes!
On pancakes with chopped bananas
Straight from the jar with a spoon! Mmmm!!
with spoon
Boring i know but i love it on toast
On a toasted bagel
On toast
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On toast!
I love Nutella on pancakes!
on a toast
Straight out of the jar!
Out of the jar with a spoon. :p
Spread on rich tea biscuits, yum 🙂
Or straight from the jar if no biscuits in the house!
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On white bread with a cup of tea :}
My mum just eats it from a spoon or with crepes 🙂
Jamie
on a chocolate spoon, is that wrong??
On fresh bread
straight out of the jar with a spoon! Really need to try some of these more sophisticated ways!
I do love nutella on toast however you cant beat a nutella and banana sandwich.
Straight from a jar with the biggest spoon i can find!! 🙂
On pancakes
on pancakes with strawberrys and banana
Made into ice lolly’s called fudgesicles!
On crusty bread
On toast
In pancackes yum x
off a spoon. haha.
On pancakes with banana.
On English muffins, warm from the toaster mmmmmm
Smothered on the hairless chest of my other half 😀 lmao
With rice cakes!
With crepes
ok now i’m blushing… it took me ages to get through the comments, you greedy lot! 😉 anyway, i like nutella straight out of the jar and i tell myself that by completely by-passing the bread/toast i’m keeping the carbs down and can therefore have twice as much nutella as i would have done! simple maths really! 😀
Out of the jar
on toast
On pancakes
On toast with some marshmallows on top and then popped under the grill!
On brown toast.
My daughter eats loads of nutella with a spoon straight out the jar
Love Nutella!! I make a little instant dessert with a digestive biscuit, spread of Nutella, topped with a sliced strawberry and a walnut half. Yum.
From the jar, on a spoon! Or on toasted muffins! Or as a cake filling! Or, or, or, Do I really have to choose???
Either straight from the jar or on strawberries. Delish!
in nutella cupcakes
Straight from the jar.
I’ve only ever eaten it out the jar, so this would educate me lol
Can’t beat a banana, peanut butter and Nutella sandwich 🙂
straight out of the jat yummy
Spread on Rich Tea biscuits
I’m thrilled I found your blog. Wow that looks like quite the dessert, i know my husband would go bonkers for it! Nutella is something we always have on hand!
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straight from the spoon
on pancakes with sliced bananas!
In a crepe!
I am very impatient and Nutella is irresistible…so for me it is straight from the jar..no time for a spoon.. I use my fingers!
on pancakes
I love eating Nutella with ice cream
I love nutella coated strawberries 🙂
Forget the spoon. Finger & jar! haha
I prefer my Nutella melted inside of two warm crusts of a loaf of bread.. deeeelicious!! With love, Faye xx
Chocolate and banana the perfect combo!
On a hot pancake!
Wouldn’t even think about eating crepes without Nutella!
With breadsticks – kind of a giant version of the chocolate kp dips I had as a child 🙂
On toast or dipping my finger into the jar!
With peanut butter in a sandwich.
Sandwiched between two rich teas!
Nutella on toast is lovely
sounds gross to some but tastes absolutely amazing = nutella on crumpets mmm
These look lovely – I love banana in baking but no one else in my family does. I suppose I could make these and eat them all myself!
It sounds very random but Nutella on Jacobs cream crackers is amazing! Me and my son love it.
My daughter would LOVE this! On holiday in Italy she ate Nutella Pizza. Its her new favourite way to eat it and we will be attempting to recreate at home..
on warm croissants – just like the French do…
With a spoon, straight from the jar!
Putting it over coffee every morning.
I shouldn’t tell you this but straight out of the jar on a teaspoon!
on toast -warms it up
with warm Croissants mmmmmmmm yummy 🙂
Spread on digestive biscuits.
isn’t it funny how something simple like pastry can be such a chore and yet once you master its simplicity and get that light touch you need it can be a joy to make and play around with… these tarts really look fabulous and banana and nutella must be a match made in heaven… so I would say my fave way of eating nutella is how you’ve made them!
out the jar 🙂
Oh yes, by the spoonful!
I wonder whether there’s a recipe in the book for Nutella frozen yoghurt, the version I made was really nice 🙂
Made in to ferero rocher type chocolates
with a spoon! haha failing that, mixed in with weetabix!
Spreading it on pancakes
I made something similar tonight for Cooper using puff pastry, but I added peanut butter. He loved it!
sticking my finger in the jar
These tartlets look heavenly!
I’m afraid I can’t narrow it down to just one. I love Nutella on toast, on strawberries, on cakes, in cakes, straight out of the jar… =)
I honestly mistook the picture of the book for a real nutella jar. I’d be pretty interested to see this book as my main (and favourite)way of eating nutella is straight from the jar…
These tarts look amazing – worth getting your pastry mojo working for – I have got better at pastry even though my last attempt was pitiful – but still avoid it where possible. I would made pastry for these tarts though
My favourite way? You’d probably have the blog closed for indecency if I told you……
On toast! Love it right from the jar too though!
@ashlallan
with a spoon from jar to mouth!
have a feeling this is going to be the most popular method 😉