Linda Lomelino

Chocolate cake with chocolate hazelnut frosting

By popular demand… here it is. The chocolate cake with chocolate hazelnut frosting and dark chocolate glaze. Or to be more specific- chocolate heaven. I didn’t make it for the blog and wasn’t initially going to post the recipe, but that would have been kind of selfish, wouldn’t it? I made it for my brother who turned 20 the other day aaand let’s just say he and my other little brother had two pieces each in one go. He later said that he dreamed about it that night and that he had a piece for breakfast too. Apparently it was even better the day after. I didn’t want to cut into his birthday cake just to take photos, which is the reason I only have photos of the outside of the cake. But at least you can see all the layers!
I know I’ve been swearing by my other go-to chocolate cake recipe (find it HERE) but I’m kind of leaning towards this one being my new favorite. It bakes up beautifully and comes out fairly flat on top. I adapted the cake recipe from one of my own books, My sweet kitchen (my third book, originally Sweet food & photography in Sweden), which will be out in the US on February 17. You can pre-order it on Amazon already! I adapted this cake from the stout cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and chocolate pretzels (yum!). I doubled the recipe and used milk and coffee in place of stout. Feel free to try out stout in this recipe too! I bet it would be delicious.

On another note, I usually only use two pans when I make cake but this time I used three. If you only have two pans and want to make this cake, I say go ahead and bake it in two pans, then split the layers in half so you end up with four layers. There should be enough frosting for it. Just make sure to adjust the baking time which will be a little longer, but start checking at 35 minutes anyway. Oh, and make sure to use baking pans that are not too shallow. Just FYI!


Chocolate cake with chocolate hazelnut frosting & dark chocolate glaze

Yields one 6-inch cake, serves 8-10

Ingredients

Chocolate sour cream cake

  • 200 g (~1 3/4 sticks) butter
  • 125 mL (1/2 cup) milk
  • 240 g (1 2/3 cups) all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 68 g (2/3 cup) cocoa powder
  • 315 g (1 1/2 cups) granulated sugar
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 150 mL (2/3 cup) sour cream
  • 125 mL (1/2 cup) hot coffee

Chocolate filling

  • 75 g (2.6 oz) semi-sweet chocolate (50%)
  • 35 g (2 1/2 tbsp) butter
  • pinch of salt

Chocolate hazelnut frosting

  • 150 g (~1 1/4 sticks) butter, softened
  • 100 g (~1/2 cup) cream cheese, cold
  • 60 g (1/3 cup 2 tbsp) powdered sugar
  • 250 g (3/4 cup 2 tbsp) chocolate hazelnut spread (such as Nutella, or make your own -recipe HERE)
  • pinch of salt

Dark chocolate glaze

  • 75 g (2.6 oz) dark chocolate (70%)
  • 45 g (3 tbsp) butter
  • pinch of salt

Decoration

  • chocolate sprinkles

Instructions

Chocolate sour cream cake

  1. Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F). Butter three 6-inch (15 cm) cake pans and dust them with cocoa powder.
  2. Melt the butter, add milk and set aside to cool.
  3. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, sugar and salt. Add the butter mixture, eggs and sour cream to the dry ingredients and beat until just smooth.
  4. Add the hot coffee and stir until smooth (batter will be quite liquid).
  5. Divide the batter evenly between the three cake pans. Bake the cakes on the lower rack for 32-35 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Let the cakes cool in their pans for 15 minutes, the invert onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

Chocolate filling

  1. Coarsely chop the semi-sweet chocolate and place it in a saucepan together with butter, over low heat. Stir often until everything is melted. Add a pinch of salt. Let cool to spreadable consistency – meanwhile you can prepare the frosting.

Chocolate hazelnut frosting & assembly

  1. Beat butter until pale and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the cream cheese, powdered sugar, chocolate hazelnut spread and salt and beat until frosting is completely smooth and fluffy. If frosting feels loose, put the bowl in the fridge for a while.
  2. Place the first cake layer on a plate or cake stand. Spread with chocolate filling, then pipe or spread a layer of frosting on top (make sure to save some frosting for piping the top of the cake). Don’t pipe or spread all the way out to the edge as the weight of the cake will make it spread.
  3. Place the second layer on top of the first layer. Spread second layer with chocolate filling, then pipe or spread a layer of frosting on top. Put the third layer on top. Put the cake in the fridge to stabilize it while you prepare the dark chocolate glaze.

Dark chocolate glaze & decoration

  1. Coarsely chop the dark chocolate and place it in a saucepan together with butter, over low heat. Stir often until everything is melted. Add a pinch of salt. Let cool to room temperature (but make sure it doesn’t thicken too much, it should still be liquid). Pour the glaze over the cake and quickly spread it over the edges of the cake to make it run down the sides.
  2. Pipe some blobs of frosting on top of the cake and decorate with chocolate sprinkles.

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