Happy Birthday Me! (Nutella Brownie Cake)

My birthday was not today though, it was a couple of days ago, but I was busy with cake order, so only now I could bake for myself hahaha

And yes, I do like baking my own cake for my own birthday 😛 I do prefer pie though, but since there is a baking contest on instructables.com that I want to enter, perfect timing 😛

This cake is of brownies and paired with Nutella, so chocolate overload 😀 Because brownies stacked and filled with nutella buttercream and drizzled with dark chocolate ganache is totally triple threats! 😛

Nutella Cream

5 egg whites

1 1/4 c sugar

1 lbs unsalted butter, room temperature

2-3 generous tbsp nutella

Method:

Dissolve sugar in egg white over double boiler, stirring continuously

Pour mixture into electric mixer and beat on low until room temperature

Turn up speed to high and beat to meringue

Add in butter a little cube at a time and keep beating until creamy and smooth

Beat in nutella and mix until smooth, set aside, covered

Truffle

1/4 c 35 % heavy cream

100 g milk chocolate

Method:

In a bowl, heat heavy cream about 35 seconds in microwave

Stir in chopped chocolates, stir to dissolve

Let stand to room temperature, it will thicken, then cover with cling wrap and place in the fridge until solid

Spoon some out and roll into balls, cover, chill until ready to use

Brownies

Grease and flour 3 -6 inch pans

Preheat oven to 350 F

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c butter

6 squares unsweetened chocolate (1 oz each per square)

3 c sugar

6 eggs (I use liquid whole egg, from carton, 1 egg is 3 tbsp + 2 tsp)

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 c flour

3/4 tsp salt

Method:

In microwave, melt butter and chocolate until smooth

Stir in sugar

Add eggs one at a time

Stir in vanilla, flour then salt, mix well

Pour into pans and bake for 30 mins or until a toothpick/knife comes out clean

Let cool in pans for 10 mins then cool completely on rack before decorating

Ganache

50 g dark chocolate 47 %

1/8 c heavy cream 35 %

Method:

In microwave, heat heavy cream for 25 mins

Stir in chopped chocolates until dissolved, let stand in room temperature, stirring once a while until desired consistency

Assembling The Cake

Place one brownie on serving plate, spread some buttercream, stack another brownie, spread some buttercream and stack the last brownie and cover the whole cake either fully or semi naked with buttercream.

Decorate with wafer, chocolate coated marshmallow, oreo, milk chocolate truffles, Aero mint flavored, chocolate coins, sprinkles, M n Ms, and chocolate coated dried cranberries.

Drizzle with ganace and insert in a spoon (beside for decoration, it’s also to eat the nutella ;-))

Then place a Nutella jar

Enjoy 🙂