Nutella, where have you been all my life?!!! If you know that Rihanna song, I am signing it in my head right now, the “Where have you been all my li-ii-ii-ife.”   

Mr. E and I have been talking about Nutella for about 5 to 6 months.  I have been seeing recipes for it and asking if I should try them and he has been ‘poo pooing’ the idea.  I quote…”it’s alright, not as good as peanut butter but it’s not bad.”  While at Target this weekend I had a coupon that was about to expire and finally bought some Nutella.  As soon as dessert time came around that evening I decide to give it a taste.  Oh my gosh!!!! It is literally heaven on a spoon!  As soon as the deliciousness touched my tongue I looked at Mr. E and stated with more convection than I’ve had in a while that he is certifiably the craziest person I know for not thinking Nutella is amazing.

Since Mr. E is not one to be left out when it comes to eating something amazing, he snatched the spoon from my hand with a…”gimmie.”  To say he liked it is an understatement! He quickly agreed that he was crazy before and that Nutella is awesome. We dipped pretzels and cherries in it while we searched though all the delicious sounding recipes out there and tried to decide what to make. 

Do we make  Nutella Chip Cookies with Homemade Nutella Chips courtesy of The Ivory Hut 

or do I try and make Nutella cinnamon rolls topped with bananas foster or Nutella and Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Fudge  by Doughmesstic which looks like a Nutella snickers bar with marshmallow cream in the center instead of nougat? There are so many recipes that sound good I’m not sure where to start.

For now we will just continue to eat it right out of the jar. 🙂 I mean we don’t want it to go bad right???  I believe Mr. E summed it up perfectly at the end of the night by saying, “Welcome back 15 lbs i lost.” ha ha. 

On other thing I’ve learned while doing all this ‘research’ is that February 5^th was World Nutella Day – it even has its own Facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/WorldNutellaDay Did anyone else know this? I really can’t believe I’ve been missing out!