After being gastronomically turned on by the Nutella Cake from Esurientes – The Comfort Zone, I was just glad I had an excuse to make it this weekend – my sisters birthday! So with a 400g jar of Nutella in hand, I prepared this amazing masterpiece of culinary decadence.
I won’t repost the recipe (which you can find here). But one little alteration I made was to toffee the hazelnuts. Just melt approximately one cup of caster sugar in a pan till it is the colour of toffee, throw in the roasted hazelnuts and coat well. Spread the hazelnuts onto a baking sheet, ensuring the nuts are separate and not clumping. Once cool, decorate the cake with the roasted crunchy caramelly nuts. Mmm.
This cake tastes just friggin amazing and is dead easy to make. As is doesn’t contain much of a stabilising agent (ie. flour), you will find it dramatically sinks in the centre after baking. Just cut the uneven craterish sides off (and eat!), then turn the cake upsidedown and frost / decorate.
Toffee+Hazelnuts = Heaven! Don’t think I could resist plucking them from the top of the cake!
must try this myself.
I shouldn’t read these things at this time of night. My waist is widening just at the thought of thisn’. Now I’m finding my self doing a mental itinery of the pantry. Searching, searching… Damn it – ate all the sweet stuff last night!
Love this post.
oh dear. that’s evil.
great photos!
Look gorgeous -the toffee hazelnuts are a brilliant addition! I wish I’d thought of something like that, but I was chucking mine on at 2am and inspiration was long gone!
hi there… just popped by from your link on niki’s site. this looks so good… and i loved your toffeed hazelnuts… will have to borrow that idea for other cake decoration ideas. hope the birthday person was pleased with your efforts!
Yum! This variation looks amazing too.
Mel…
That picture is so beautiful I almost licked my screen.
Almost
I adore those candied hazelnuts – mmmm!
Thanks for all the beautiful commments. Uh huh…this cake sure does bring out that wicked craving monster in us all
This just sounds…. GREAT! I mean, anything with Nutella has to be great, right?
Yes, Nutella is a magic word in my culinary vocabulary.
The cafe near my word is just about to sell and Italian style bombolone doughnut pumped full of custard and nutella. How evil is that?!?! I can’t wait