Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
By kathy77
@kathy77 (7485)
Australia
April 7, 2007 1:38pm CST
Impress everyone with this fabulous chocolate cake, and have a happy and safe Easter!
Ingredients (serves 12)
200g dark chocolate, chopped
200g butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 eggs, at room temperature
1 3/4 cups self-raising flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup milk
1 cup choc-hazelnut spread (such as Nutella)
80 small solid chocolate Easter eggs
Method
Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease and line a 20cm (base) round cake pan. Place chocolate into a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Heat on MEDIUM (50%) power for 2 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, or until smooth. Set aside to cool slightly. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence until creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Add cooled chocolate. Mix well. Sift flour and cocoa powder together. Fold half the flour mixture into chocolate mixture. Fold half the milk into chocolate mixture. Repeat with remaining flour mixture and milk. Spoon cake batter into cake pan. Smooth surface. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand for 15 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Spread choc-hazelnut spread over cake. Top with Easter eggs. Serve.
Notes & tips Hint:This cake will keep in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
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5 responses
@spiritwolf52 (2300)
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8 Apr 07
I love my chocolate! This one looks quite yummy. Thanks for sharing this. I'll be printing it out and adding it to my mylot recipes. This is a great place to share our recipes. I always keep my eyes out for new things.
@weemam (13372)
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8 Apr 07
Thank you so much for the brilliant recipe my friend , but this one I am not going to print out , not because I don't think it yummy but simply because it is too yummy , If I make this II will eat most of it myself and the weight I have lost will all be back on my hips again lol xx
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@qouniq (1966)
• Malaysia
8 Apr 07
Thank you for the recipe, I really love the chocolate cakes. I just love the taste of the chocolate in the cake. I will surely try this recipe. I also like the steamed cake, have you ever try any steamed cake before? Steamed cake can be kept up to 1 month and they are more smooth. I have my steamed chocolate cake here for you to try out.
Steamed Chocolate cake
Ingredients
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup granulate sugar
1 cup condense milk
1 cup meted butter
½ cup sweetened concentrate condense milk
1 ¼ cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda bicarbonate
3 eggs
Method:
Mix cocoa powder, sugar, condense milk, sweetened concentrate condense milk and butter into a saucepan on small fire sauté until all ingredients melted. Remove from fire and add flour, soda bicarbonate and baking powder. Beat the egg until the color turn to be light yellow before adding them into the flour and cocoa mixed. Mix well, and put the batter into a moulder pan but do not let it full – make it ½ only. Cover the moulder pan with the aluminum foil so no vapor drops while steaming. Steam the batter for about 1 ½ hours and let it cool after that.
TOPPING - chocolate
Ingredients
250 g Cooking chocolate } slice
1 table spoon margarine
130 ml double cream or whipping cream
Some sugar to make it sweet
Methods:
Melt the chocolate using double-boiler. Remove from the heat and add the margarine, sugar and cream. Mix well. Pour the chocolate batter on the cake, leave it for a while until cold or you can keep it in the fridge before eating.
Have fun and happy baking.
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
7 Apr 07
Thank you much for the chcolate cake.Chcolate cake is my husbands favorite cake.This wouls go great with my sunday Easter dinner. Happy Easter to you too.
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@RogerTheRabbit (1271)
• Portugal
7 Apr 07
Chocolate cake is always a great dessert. Everyone just love to eat a piece of a good chocolate cake. Will print this one and ask my mother to do it.
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