This month’s theme for the Sweet Adventures Blog Hop was Nuts About Sweets – a seemingly easy theme until you get overwhelmed by the amount of options available! I love hazelnuts and I love chocolate so it made perfect sense to combine these into a Ferrero Rocher cake complete with a decadent Nutella buttercream!
The cake features 3 layers of deliciously dark Devil’s Food Cake, with each layer sandwiched between a generous heaping of Nutella. The entire cake was then cloaked in Nutella Buttercream (omg), the sides adorned with chopped hazelnuts and then decorated with Ferrero Rocher chocolates.
This is definitely not the neatest or most elegant cake I have ever made but it’s definitely the tastiest!
Ingredients
Cake
- 2/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tbsps instant coffee powder
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 375 ml boiling water
- 190 g butter room temperature
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 2 1/4 cups plain flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Nutella Buttercream
- 225 g butter room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
- 125 g dark chocolate melted and cooled slightly
- 150 g Nutella
Decoration
- 200 g Nutella
- 80 g hazelnuts
- Ferrero Rochers to decorate
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line the bases of 3 x 20 cm cake tins with bake paper and grease the sides with butter.
- Stir the cocoa powder, coffee and brown sugar in a bowl and pour over the boiling water. Whisk to mix and set aside.
- Cream the butter and caster sugar together until pale and fluffy and then add the vanilla extract.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Slowly add the flour, bicarb and baking powder. Pour in the cocoa/coffee mixture and beat until just combined.
- Divide the batter evenly amongst the 3 cake tins.
- Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Allow the cakes to cool slightly in their tins before turning out onto a tray to cool completely.
Nutella Buttercream
- Place the softened butter and icing sugar in a large mixing bowl and beat until smooth.
- Add the slightly cooled chocolate and continue beating until combined.
- Add the Nutella and beat on medium-high speed until the buttercream is light and fluffy.
Decoration
- Using an offset spatula, spread half the Nutella on top of the first cake layer.
- Place the second cake on top and spread the remaining Nutella over it (don't go down the sides).
- Place the third cake on top and gently press down to sandwich the 3 layers together.
- Dollop 2/3 of the Nutella buttercream on top of the cake, and using the offset spatula, begin to smooth the buttercream out across the top and over the sides of the cake.
- Use the remainder of the buttercream to cover the sides of the cake (remember it doesn't have to be too neat as you will be covering the sides with hazelnuts!)
- Chop the hazelnuts as finely as you want. Gently press them to the sides of the cake, dusting away excess nuts that fall off.
- Decorate with Ferrero Rocher chocolates.
Thanks to Dining With a Stud for hosting this month’s Blog Hop!
38 Comments
Urp, I feel fat just reading this post! Looks awesome!
Mel I had to go for an intense run after eating 1/3 of a slice haha! Decadence to the extreme ;)
Gorgeous :D What a beautifully delicious cake!! Thanks for joining the hop!
Thanks Nic, it was great fun creating it!
oh baby look at it! so pretty, I want to lick the screen. Was planning to do a dessert with ferrero as well :)
I just ate another (small) piece then. Positively decadent! Definitely make a Ferrero inspired dessert, nothing beats the amazing chocolate and hazelnut combo! :)
Oh my goodness I can nearly taste this cake jumping out at me from the screen. I made nutella butter cream a few weeks ago for the first time and boy was it good!
I can’t believe I have never made Nutella buttercream before Claire, this is going to be dangerously addictive :D
This cake looks amazing Swah! I’m definitely making this asap!
Thanks Katie! Let me know how it goes :)
Ok… so you had me sold at the mere reading of the title of this post! Seriously fantastic cake. I am trying to figure out when I might be able to give this a go – as soon as possible.
Bake it as soon as you have a large group of people to feed Amanda because trust me, you don’t want this just hanging around the house ;)
OMG indeed, this cake is a beauty! I love the idea of Nutella buttercream, I’m having one of those ‘now why didn’t I think of that’ moments. Brilliant, well done. :)
Hehe Erin I have those moments all the time! Nutella buttercream for all!!
I die! Holy cow! I cannot wait to give this a go! Yum yum yum! Thank you! x
You are MOST welcome Sar! xx
This looks absolutely stunning – what a beautiful cake and I love the flavours. Mmm.
Thank you Christina!! It was delicious :D
That looks amazing! I don’t usually have much of a sweet tooth, but I do have a soft spot for Ferrero Rocher. What a beautiful cake!
Thank you Sarah Kate! I love Ferrero Rochers so much, I thought they deserved to be honoured in cake form :)
Can I have a piece of that cake? It must be very delicious!
It has been demolished haha! Next time :)
Now that is a terribly (and by terribly I mean wonderfully!) decadent cake – love it!
So decadent it’s ridiculous. But isn’t that how a cake should be? :)
it looks great,but my attempt failed!:(
Oh no Sue I’m sorry to hear that!! What exactly went wrong? Hopefully I can help!
I had so much fun baking it. It was a success thanks to your easy instructions. You’ve seen my photos and I know I did you proud. I look forward to cooking something of yours soon.
<3 Sx
I am so so proud of you Sar and glad you found the instructions easy to follow :) Can’t wait for you to bake more of my recipes!! xxx
Absolute winner! Love it and am pinning!
Thanks so much Amy! :)
Oh my lord! Amazing!!! I must bake this :)
Please do Renee and let me know how it goes! :)
hi are u selling this cake ??
Hey there, this cake is available for purchase if you’re in the Sydney metro area :)
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Nice recipe Thank you so muchhhhh. We enjoyed with this. It was too Delicious!!!!