Nutella IS Out of This World in 2026 and Recipes! Including the 2026 Most Highly Rated Recipes for Nutella Cookies and Nutella Cake

Roughly 252,756 miles away from the earth, a jar of Nutella, a chocolate hazelnut spread, floated past an astronaut’s head and drifted across NASA’s livestream during the Artemis II lunar flyby this week. This was the subject of a Wall Street Journal, article, Saturday/Sunday, April 11-12, 2026. The author, Ben Cohen, gives us the origin of Nutella.

“During a Post war cocoa shortage in the 1940s, an Italian pastry chef named Pietro Ferrero had the genius idea to combine the scarce resource with an ingredient his town had an abundance: hazelnuts. It was engineered into a spreadable paste in the 1950s and officially launched as Nutella in 1964.”

However, Nutella has been part of our family since 1988, when our daughter, a chocoholic like her mother, brought a jar back from a “People to People” student trip to Europe. Since then, we eat Nutella right out of the jar with a spoon, following my feeding her chocolate fudge from a spoon when she was six weeks old.  As new parents in 1973, we had no information otherwise back then.

Mention of Nutella is included in nearly a DOZEN of my blog posts starting just a few years after the origination of my blog! Here they are to have fun with Nutella, as now I know 60 million jars were sold in America this last year!

The “out of this world” marketing means that Nutella recipes, included in the blog posts that mentioned Nutella below, will be valuable too to you and yours.

2015: Nuts and the New Studies That Let Us Think About Introducing Delicious Nutella to Our Grandchildren

2015: This Grandma’s New Mantra is Peanut Butter For Breakfast, and Not Only For Grandchildren

 2015: National Ice Cream Month is Celebrated in Sunny Florida Year Round

 2016: Nutella and Bananas or Apples Combine to Make A Tasty and Healthy After School Snack or Maybe Even a

2016: Banana Everything Cookies Means They Are Vegan and Healthy. . .Sort Of

 2017: Why We Grandmas Should Be Nuts Over the Change in Exposing Our Grandchildren To Nuts As Babies

2020: Recipe for Homemade Nutella in February 5, 2020 is World Nutella Day with Secrets and Nutella Recipes Galore to Share With Grandchildren

2020: For A Sweet Relief From Seriousness of the Pandemic, Ice Cream Bread To Try Out For Yourself With The Leftover Rainbow Sprinkles You Cannot Now Share With Your Grandchildren or Zoom Make it With Them

2022: Nutella Fluff or Blender Chocolate Mousse: Pick Your Easy Version to Make For Grandchildren and Just Call It Nutella Pudding

2023: Dirt, Nuts, Bad Hygiene and Habits Such As Nail Biting and Thumb Sucking May Have A Benefit After All And Newest Technique to Try to Replace Those Behaviors

 2023: Easy Nutella Pops Made With Three Ingredients To Make With Grandchildren, Beginning with Toddlers

Since it is 2026, and ChatGPT is our friend, I asked ChatGPT for the number one recipes for cookies and cake made with Nutella. Here is the response from AI. Definitely use extra chocolate chips!

Here are two of the most highly rated, widely loved Nutella recipes—one for cookies and one for cake—based on top recipe sites and consistent reviews. I’ll give you the best-performing style of each plus simplified instructions so you can actually use them.

🍪 #1 Best Nutella Cookies (Soft, chewy, 5-ingredient version)

This style (like the one from The Pioneer Woman) is one of the most popular because it’s easy, rich, and foolproof.

⭐ Why it’s top-rated

•                  Only 5 ingredients

•                  Very fudgy + chewy texture

•                  Takes ~20 minutes total

🧾 Ingredients

•                  1½ cups Nutella

•                  3 tbsp brown sugar

•                  1 egg + 1 yolk

•                  ¾ cup flour

•                  Optional: chocolate chips + sea salt

👩‍🍳 Instructions (simplified)

1.              Preheat oven to 350°F

2.              Mix Nutella + sugar until smooth

3.              Add egg + yolk, mix well

4.              Stir in flour (and chocolate chips if using)

5.              Roll into balls, flatten slightly

6.              Bake 8–10 minutes

👉 Result: soft centers, slightly crisp edges, super chocolatey

🎂 #1 Best Nutella Cake (Layered sponge + Nutella filling)

A highly rated approach (like the “easiest Nutella cake”) focuses on balance—light cake + rich Nutella layers.

⭐ Why it’s top-rated

•                  Light sponge prevents heaviness

•                  Nutella used as filling/frosting (strong flavor payoff)

•                  Great for birthdays or celebrations

🧾 Ingredients (core idea)

Cake base

•                  2 eggs

•                  ⅓ cup sugar

•                  ⅓ cup flour

•                  pinch baking powder

Filling

•                  Nutella

•                  whipped or custard-style cream

•                  optional: chocolate + hazelnuts

👩‍🍳 Instructions (simplified)

1.              Beat eggs + sugar until fluffy (~5–6 min)

2.              Fold in flour + baking powder

3.              Bake at 350°F until golden

4.              Slice cake into layers

5.              Fill with Nutella + cream

6.              Top with chocolate/hazelnuts

👉 Result: moist, light cake with rich Nutella flavor

🏆 Which should you pick?

•                  Beginner / quick craving: → cookies (super easy, minimal ingredients)

•                  Special occasion: → cake (more impressive, layered flavor)

And by request from this grandmother for baking with TODDLERS remember to cover all your counters and the floors with old towels for easy cleanup), a three ingredient Nutella recipe for cookies.

🍪 3-Ingredient Nutella Cookies

🧾 Ingredients

•                  1 cup Nutella

•                  1 cup all-purpose flour

•                  1 large egg

👩‍🍳 Instructions

1.              Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C)

2.              Mix Nutella + egg until smooth

3.              Add flour and stir until a soft dough forms

4.              Scoop into small balls (about 1 tbsp each)

5.              Place on a lined baking sheet and flatten slightly

6.              Bake for 8–10 minutes

🔥 Tips to make them better

•                  Add a pinch of salt → enhances chocolate flavor

•                  Press a few chocolate chips on top before baking

•                  Don’t overbake—they firm up as they cool

🍫 What to expect

•                  Soft, slightly chewy texture

•                  Rich chocolate-hazelnut flavor

•                  Not super sweet compared to typical cookies

LIFE IS MOVING VERY FAST.  Try some Nutella, slow down, and savor with

Joy,

Mema