Simple chocolate cake (with Nutella)

This cake is an example of how to make something good out of next to nothing. Today we fancied something sweet and chocolatey, preferably as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, all we had at home was white chocolate and Nutella.

Actually, it wasn’t so unfortunate after all, because I adapted a brownie-style chocolate cake recipe I already knew and came up with something pretty decent. A flat chocolate cake with pieces of white chocolate. Quite sweet, but not excessively so. In fact, a batch that I think would serve 8 was polished off by four of us in no time.

Which means it tastes good. Everyone had seconds. So I recommend it!

At a glance:

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Baking time: 25 minutes

Baking temperature: 180 degrees Celsius

Serves: 8 portions

How many calories: a lot, seriously

Ingredients for a simple chocolate cake:

• 150 grams of butter
• 100 grams of white chocolate
• 3 teaspoons of Nutella
• 2 hen’s eggs
• 1 glass of wheat flour
• half a glass of white sugar
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• a pinch of salt
• 2 tablespoons of icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon of breadcrumbs

Recipe for cake with white chocolate and Nutella:

1. I melted the butter in a small saucepan, added the sugar and mixed thoroughly. It formed a fairly uniform mixture.

2. In a bowl, I mixed the flour, baking soda and salt. I added 2 hen’s eggs and mixed.

3. I added the butter and sugar mixture to the bowl of flour and eggs and mixed very thoroughly.

4. Next I added the broken-up white chocolate and 3 teaspoons of Nutella. I mixed it all together.

5. I greased a shallow tin (20 x 30 cm) with butter and coated it with breadcrumbs. I poured in the prepared batter and spread it evenly over the whole tin (there won’t be much batter, about 1 – 1.5 cm deep on the bottom).

6. I baked it for 25 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius. The cake rises nicely (to about 2.5 – 3 cm, so it should be almost twice as thick). Check with a skewer to make sure it’s done (you can start after 20 minutes). Keep an eye on it so it doesn’t dry out too much, or it’ll lose all its charm.

7. I let the baked cake cool slightly and dust it with icing sugar.

A simple chocolate cake, ready in 30 minutes. Enjoy!