Chocolate Orange Nutella Cake
February 6, 2007 at 10:50 AM
by Ashleigh
In honour of the day I baked (and ate most of) a cake. A chocolate orange nutella cake to be exact, based on Nigella Lawson's Storecupboard Chocolate-Orange Cake in How to be a Domestic Goddess.
Of course, mine was better - it had Nutella in it!
No pictures, other than the artfully arranged still life above. We ate the cake.
To be perfectly honest, it isn't a beautiful cake so pictures weren't really necessary, but what it lacks in beauty it makes up for with it's rich tasting, strong orange flavour. The hazelnut flavour from the Nutella comes over as a lovely soft undertone.
This cake improves with standing and is best served with a dollop of creme fraiche on the side.
Chocolate Orange Nutella Cake
125g unsalted butter
50g good quality chocolate, (milk or plain) broken into pieces.
75g Nutella
300g marmalade, I used the one I made a few weeks ago, of which I still haven't shared the recipe, sorry!
150g sugar
pinch of salt
2 large eggs, beaten
150g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
- Preheat the oven to 190C.
- Place the butter in your Le Creuset (or some other heavy bottomed pan) and put it over a low heat to melt.
- When it's nearly completely melted stir in the chocolate and Nutella and then take the pan off the heat and stir the butter and chocolate together until smooth.. You'll be glad you used your Le Creuset here because it retains the heat so nicely.
- Add marmalade, sugar, salt and eggs stirring with a wooden spoon.
- When it's all a nice soupy texture add the flour, beating it in slowly. I have one of those old fashioned sifters and it works perfectly for this kind of thing. Ikea have them at a really good price (isn't everything at Ikea a really good price?) so go get one!
- Place in your prepared tin and bake for about 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Cool for about 10 minutes before turning out.
I would recommend a standard 20 cm springform tin (as recommended in the original recipe), possibly lined with baking paper.
I had thought of reducing the marmalade quantity and including more Nutella, so maybe someone would like to try that.
Buono appetito!
Comments
You may just convince me to put Nutella in my mouth. (Generally speaking, I'd rather eat a worm.)
I'd say with Barbara's comment you've won the WND prize for converting the non-devotees... :-) Orange and chocolate is always a good combo... I am considering a Nutella fondue with orange slices, might be good!
Ash: sounds fabulous! I just had minneolas for lunch. Pity I didn't think of the Nutella!
This cake sounds really good. I personally prefer Nutella over other brands (and no I don't own any Nutella-shares). you know that italians are mad about Nutella, I was told they eat more Nutella than any other european country... I don't know it if that's 100% true, but if it is...it might change with recipes like these!!
Ohhh- this sounds yummy. I wish you had posted it yesterdy as I had to bake a chocolate cake last night (Patrick's 14th birthday today). I used an untried chocolate sourcream cake recipe from a chocolate cook book that I have. We will have to see this evening how it came out. I am definitly going to print this one out though . P is having friends over on the weekend and pehaps I can try it out then.
February 6, 2007 11:07 AM