Who could pass up World Nutella Day?  The creamy chocolate and hazelnut spread is even the Official Supplier for the Italian National Soccer Team.

The event was dreamed up by Sara Rosso of MsAdventuresinItaly and Michelle Fabio of Bleeding Espresso and, once I heard about it, I was determined to come up with something.

Now, I’m no pastry chef although I do like making more involved sweets sometimes but this time I was looking for something simple that could be whipped up (literally) in a short period of time.  I remembered making pudding pies with crushed cookie crusts when I was just learning how to make things when I was a child, so I decided to try a variation of that. I didn’t want to crush cookies to make the crust though, instead I wanted a large cookie as the crust.

Consequently I came up with this Whipped Nutella Cream Pie with a cookie crust.

Ingredients

Crust

1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 cup flour
extra olive oil if necessary

Filling

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup Nutella
1 cup heavy whipping cream
(I didn’t add any extra sugar because Nutella is already sweet, but if you want your pie sweeter, you can add some to the cream cheese mixture)

Block of dark chocolate to grate over the top

Directions

For the crust: Cream sugar, butter and egg yolk.  Then, gradually mix in the flour with a pastry blender (or two forks – my method) until crumbs form.  Try to form a ball with your hand.  If the mixture seems dry, add a little olive oil until the dough will stick together without becoming wet. Press into the bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch pie plate.  Bake at 400 for about 10 minutes but keep an eye on it so that the edge doesn’t get too brown.  You may need to take it out earlier.  Allow to cool.

For the filling:  Beat the cream cheese and Nutella (and sugar if you are adding it) together until smooth.  Whip the cream, then gently fold into the Nutella mixture. Spoon it into the cooled crust and top with grated chocolate (I used a citrus zester to grate the chocolate).  Refrigerate before serving.  I decided to put it in the freezer which makes it almost like a semi-freddo, but if you do, you will need to remove it from the freezer about 15 minutes before you serve it so that it softens up.

Now, wasn’t that easy!

Happy World Nutella Day!

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