Step-by-Step Guide to Make Ultimate Chocolate layered cake

Chocolate layered cake.

You can have Chocolate layered cake using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chocolate layered cake

1. Prepare 200 g of sugar.
2. It's 200 g of butter.
3. Prepare 200 g of eggs (4 eggs).
4. You need 200 g of flour.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. Prepare 68 g of rich hot chocolate powder.
8. It's 100 g of dark chocolate.
9. Prepare 200 g of fruit and nut milk chocolate.
10. You need 50 ml of Nutella (chocolate spread/ganache).
11. It's 2 of round cake tins (greased).
12. Prepare 300 ml of double cream.
13. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence (1 vanilla pod).
14. It's 50 g of sugar.

Chocolate layered cake instructions

1. Cream sugar and butter until fluffy. Add eggs, baking powder and salt and mix through..
2. Melt dark chocolate and fruit and nut chocolate over double boiler and set aside..
3. Make Chantilly cream. Add vanilla to cream and gradually whisk the cream until it is firm by gradually adding the sugar. Finally fold in the chocolate spread. Put in the fridge to cool down..
4. Add flour to batter mix and mix through. Split the mixture between two cake tins and bake for 20 minutes at 180'C in preheated oven. Once it is out of the oven place on cooling rack until at room temperature. Cut each cake horizontally in the middle to create four layers. Spread the Chantilly cream evenly between the layers. Do not cover the top. Once this is done dust the top of the cake with either cocoa powder or icing sugar..