Chocolate Spider Web Cake

INGREDIENTS

Flour 2 cups

Baking powder 2&1/2 teaspoon

Nutella chocolate 1 cup

Sugar 3/4 cup

Eggs 4

Butter 1/2 cup

Milk –add as needed to make the desired consistency

TOPPING

Double cream

Nutella 6 tablespoons

Chocolate powder 4 tablespoons

Icing sugar 4 tablespoons

Butter 2 tablespoons

Milk 1 tablespoon

METHOD

·         First of all, sieve together all the dry ingredients.

·         Beat the eggs till they become foamy.

·         In another bowl beat the butter, add in it sugar, when it is completely mixed, transfer to the bowl containing beaten eggs.

·         Now add flour as well as nutella chocolate, mix well till all the ingredients are combined well.

·         Add milk as needed if batter is thick, in order to get the desired consistency needed for the cake batter.

·         Pre-heat oven at 180^oC for 10 minutes.

·         Grease the pan and transfer the content to it, and place it in the oven.

·         Bake for 20 minutes on gas mark 3.

FOR TOPPING

·         When the cake is ready, take it out of oven and allow it to cool.

·         Spread nutella to the cake.

·         Make chocolate sauce, adding together all the ingredients that are chocolate powder, milk, butter and icing sugar, cook on low flame, mix together well.

·         When even composition chocolate mixture is ready, spread it to the entire cake.

·         Keep it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to allow the chocolate glaze to set well.

·         Add the double cream in the piping bag containing the smallest nozzle.

·         Make rounds to the whole cake.

·         With the knife with its blunt end facing the cake make longitudinal lines, each passing through the center of the cake through the penetration of knife to about 2 mm.

·         Now your chocolate spider web cake is ready!