April 14, 2018; Saturday
Hey everyone! Weeks ago, my brother graduated from college, celebrated his 22nd birthday and got to host their university’s awards night called The Magis Awards. We’re all so proud of our baby brother and in celebration, I decided to make his favourite cake- Chocolate Cake (with a twist) hence the chocolate, hazelnuts, Nutella, (failed attempt of) chocolate macarons and assorted chocolate-hazelnut flavoured bars all in one cake.
Fun fact: Got these roasted hazelnuts when I was in Dubai about a month ago and it’s still fresh and never lost it’s flavour and it blended perfectly with the cake.
Note that I made some chocolate macarons but they all failed so I’ll try again next time.
Well, the cake looks a little complicated but its really not, it’s easy and you don’t need a lot of ingredients for it. So here’s it is. Enjoy!
CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT CAKE
Chocolate Ganache: Dark chocolate chunks
Milk chocolate chips Heavy cream
1. On a bowl, add your chocolate chunks/chips
2. Heat up heavy cream (not boil!) and add it to the bowl of chocolate.
Set aside and let it cool
Basic Nutella Buttercream: Butter (softened) Powdered sugar Nutella Heavy cream (to thin it out)
1. Add softened butter and powdered sugar together on a mixer, mix on low speed at first and gradually increase.
2. Add Nutella and in the mixture is too thick, you can add a bit of heavy cream to thin it out.
Garnish:
Chocolate-hazelnut kisses, macarons, Milka chocolate bars, hazelnuts
ASSEMBLY TIME: * Baked my cake on 3 pans and cut them all in half because I wanted to make my cake a little bit higher and I wanted it to have a lot of thin layers rather than a thick 3-layered cake. 1ST layer: Chocolate cake- spoon over some milk to make it moist (Thanks to Christina Tosi of Milk Bar for the tip!) 2ND layer: Pipe some Nutella buttercream on the cake and leave some space for the middle- add chocolate ganache 3RD layer: Sprinkle some chopped roasted hazelnuts
*repeat the layers until you run out of cake. LOL*
Coat the cake with chocolate ganache or Nutella buttercream and decorate it however you want.
There you go! A very simple chocolate cake taken to a higher level- I guess *wink* I’m not an expert but I really wanted to share this recipe :)
Mary xx
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