In Home Entertainment: Nutella Playdough

In our ongoing quest to discover creative playdough recipes (and, more realistically, in mom's continuing attempts not to eat entire jars of nutella), we decided to whip up a batch of nutella playdough. We found a few on the web, but decided to adapt this one from Dana Made It -- we found that we needed to add a full cup more water to get a dough consistency and a healthy dose of baby oil to keep it elastic. Here's the dealio:

Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup of powdered cocoa
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1/2 tablespoon cream of tartar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons nutella
- 1/2 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 cups water
- baby oil

Directions:
Boil the water in a small sauce pan. In a medium sized pan, mix the flour, cocoa powder, salt and cream of tartar. Add the boiling water, oil, and nutella to the mix and stir on medium-low heat until it is thick. Cool completely before kneading the dough. Knead the dough on a floured surface until it no longer sticks to your hands and then mix in a few drops of baby oil.

It actually turned out very similar to the chocolate playdough we've made before and, next time, I think we'll just add in some nutella to that recipe -- it really adds a nice smell and texture to it.

I spent a long time diligently making "cookies for Santa" and wanted to leave them out on a sheet to dry. After a lot of negotiating with mom (who generally lets me do what I want in the arts and crafts realm, but having had just made a whole batch of new nutella playdough, wasn't super into drying the whole thing out), I decided to keep them as cookies, but store them in an airtight container. Cami, as usual, actually ate the "cookies." Well, only a few bites.

lookin a little crumbly. 

mmmm, smells delish.