Nutella Mousse Cake
A delicious easy no fuss cake with an even more delicious nutella mousse topping.
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake
- 125 g unsalted softened butter (1/2 cup)
- 125 g sugar (approx 2/3 cup)
- 2 eggs
- 125 g flour (1/2 cup)
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1/4 tsp bicarb soda
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/3 cup milk
Mousse
- 1/2 cup nutella
- 1 cup chilled thickened cream
- 1 tbsp chopped toasted hazelnuts (optional)
Instructions
Chocolate Cake
- Pre heat your oven to 180c. Grease a 20cm springform tin and line the base with baking paper.
- Place all your cake ingredients except the milk into a mixer and beat until combined. Remove the bowl, add in your milk and mix gently with spoon until the milk is mixed through.
- Pour into cake tin and place in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
- Check the cake with a skewer in the middle, if the skewer comes out with a bit of wet cake batter leave it in for another few minutes and check again. The cake will be done when a skewer comes out clean.
- Leave in the pan to cool completely.
Mousse
- While the cake is baking beat the cream until soft peaks form.
- Place the nutella in the microwave until slightly runnier (about 15 seconds), if the nutella gets too hot, leave it aside to cool.
- Pour the nutella into the cream and fold gently until combined.
- Place in the fridge to cool and set while the cake bakes and cools.
To Serve
- Place cake onto your serving plate. Top with the chilled mousse and hazelnuts.