8 May 2016

nutella cake


Happy birthday to us!
Let’s celebrate with a big fluffy chocolatey cake smothered with the fudgiest icing ever! Hip hip hooray!

Nutella cake
Adapted from a Women’s Weekly recipe. The recipe specified a deep 22cm round tin; I don’t have one of those, so I used a deep 20 cm and made four little muffins. My friend M, who first made this cake, topped hers with tart red raspberries; I went for spangly silver cachous. Best shared with people singing and oohing and ahhing.

  • Prep your tin (see above) and preheat oven to 180.
  • In a small jug, combine ½ cup cocoa, ½ cup boiling water and a pinch of salt, and stir until it’s a beautiful chocolate slurry.
  • In a large bowl (and if you have a freestanding mixer, use that), beat 185 gms soft butter with ¾ cup white sugar, ¾ cup brown sugar and 1 tspn vanilla.
  • Beat in 3 eggs, then the chocolate slurry (enjoy the swirly patterns!), ½ cup nutella, and 180 mls buttermilk (enjoy the mousse-like texture!). At this point, it is entirely reasonable to have a sneaky taste test. Or two.
  • Now use a wooden spoon to fold thru 1 ½ cups SR flour and ½ cup plain flour. Remember to lick the beaters once you’re finished with your mixer. After all, it’s your birthday.
  • Pour this beautiful batter into your tin and bake for 1 ¼ hours until done. You may need to cover the cake partway through to prevent the top from burning.
  • Once baked, cool on a wire rack in the tin.
  • Meanwhile, gently melt 200gms of dark cooking chocolate, then stir in 1 cup nutella (I actually had slightly less than these quantities, but it turned out very well). Allow to cool a little, then turn out your cake, and pour over the icing. Decorate as you wish — and enjoy!

10 comments:

  1. How delicious...I am very partial to a sprinkle of silver cachous, they make everything better. Happy Sunday to you!

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    1. thank you jane, hope you had a lovely weekend too! there's something super glamourous about silver cachous, isn't there!

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  2. This looks like a very good cake indeed. I like to put those little silver balls on top of things as well. Hope you have a good Sunday. CJ xx

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    1. hello CJ - and yes, it is a very good cake! this is becoming the silver cake decorations fan club! :-)

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  3. Delicious, but so dangerous to my thighs x

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    1. that's why it's good to share it with friends and work colleagues :-)

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  4. What I wouldn't do for a piece of this right now! This is the perfect cake for me :)

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    1. oh, I wish I still had some to share with you jem! maybe next time ;-)

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  5. Isn't this the best cake? Grand, tall and not too rich (= big slices or two slices!) I love anything with nutella and it's nice to see a growing range of hazelnut spreads at the supermarket now. Happy birthday to you! x

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    1. thank you, and thank you for inspiring me with this cake :-) it is a fabulous cake for celebrations! (ps I would take two big slices. you're allowed to go all out on your birthday)xx

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