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Any regular reader will know how much we love to bake – and baking loaf cakes are something we do regularly. They are just so easy to slice and serve. With our latest bake I thought I’d use our favourite flavours and create a Chocolate Nutella Loaf Cake.

How to make this easy Chocolate Nutella Loaf Cake recipe

For this loaf cake recipe we use typical cake ingredients – butter or margarine, sugar, flour, eggs and unsweetened cocoa powder and Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread for the added flavour and texture.

We use self raising flour for this Nutella cake recipe but if you prefer you can use plain flour or all purpose flour and a teaspoon baking powder or baking soda. We just use self raising flour for ease. We also use caster sugar but granulated sugar, golden caster sugar or even light brown sugar work really well. You can also add a little vanilla extract to this recipe but I like to focus on the chocolate hazelnut flavours.

You can serve this cake cooled, straight from the oven but we like to finish it with a homemade creamy Nutella buttercream icing made simply with unsalted butter, icing sugar, Nutella and a splash of milk. We like to halve the cake to add a layer of Nutella frosting in the middle, creating a Nutella layer cake that is absolutely delicious.

This moist chocolate cake with Nutella filling is fantastic for an afternoon tea spread, any occasion or simply to enjoy with a cup of tea in the afternoon. It’s a great anytime bake that everyone will love. This easy Nutella cake recipe needs very few ingredients, all things you’ll find in most kitchens and pantrys, making it such a great option to bake ehenever the urge takes you.

If you’re looking for other bakes to make, here’s our Blueberry Butterfly Cakes, Coffee and Walnut Loaf Cake and Lemon Rock Cakes recipes. You can see all our recipes to date here.

What equipment do you need for this simple chocolate Nutella cake recipe?

You can make this Nutella chocolate cake recipe simply with things you already have in your kitchen but here are the things we use in case there’s something you don’t already have:

As you can see, it’s all things you probably have already. We use loaf tin liners to guarantee that bakes come out of the tin easily and they’re great when baking as gifts too but parchment paper works well too

So here’s our recipe for Nutella Loaf Cake:

Ingredients

170g caster sugar
170g butter or margarine
4 eggs
200g self raising flour
30g cocoa
100g Nutella

For the Nutella buttercream icing:

100g butter softened, unsalted
150g icing sugar
100g Nutella
1 tbsp milk

Recipe

Preheat oven at 160C/300F/Gas 2
Line or grease a loaf tin.
Put all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix until well combines.
Pour the cake batter mixture into the prepared loaf pan and bake in the middle of the oven for 50-60 minutes until brown on the top and a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack.
To make the Nutella icing, mix the Nutella, icing sugar, butter and milk in a large mixing bowl along until you have created a light, rich, Nutella icing.
Prepare the cake by levelling the top if needed and cutting in half lengthways.
Pipe half the icing on top of the cake base before putting the top half back in place. Ice the top of the cake with the rest of the Nutella icing.
Slice and enjoy!

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