Desserts & Baking
Chocolate crêpe cake with Nutella cream
6
Easy
30 minutes, plus 1 hour’s chilling time
20 minutes
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Woolworths Diemersfontein Chocolate Shiraz 2015
Ingredients
Method- 1 cup full-cream milk
- 50 g 70% dark chocolate
- 25 g butter
- 3 free-range eggs
- 50 g sugar
- 120 g cake flour
- 2 T cocoa, plus extra for dusting
- Salt a pinch
- Butter, for greasing
- Icing sugar, for dusting For the filling:
- ½ cup cream
- 1 x 350 g jar Nutella
- 1 T frangelico liqueur
Method
Ingredients- To make the crêpes: In a small saucepan, heat the milk, chocolate and butter until smooth and melted. Whisk the eggs with the sugar, sift over the flour, cocoa and salt, then beat together.
- Beat the egg mixture into the chocolate-and-milk mixture. Strain and chill for 1 hour. If the mixture seems too thick, thin down with cold water to the consistency of pouring cream.
- Use a non-stick pan – about 20 cm in diameter – to make the crêpes. Rub the pan lightly with butter. Over a fairly high heat, ladle in 2 T batter at a time. Once set, turn and cook for a few seconds. Turn out onto baking paper and separate with small squares of baking paper to make them easy to handle.
- To make the filling, whip the cream and fold into the Nutella. Add the liqueur.
- To assemble, place a crêpe on a serving plate, spread with the filling, then top with another crêpe. Repeat, ending with a crêpe. Chill for a few hours to make it easier to slice. Sift over a mix of cocoa and icing sugar before serving.
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