Flourless Nutella Cake

Last night was me and Tyler's second anniversary. We went to a wonderful restaurant and I had the best lamb chops I've ever had. Ever. In my life. These lamb chops were life changing and life asserting and transcended space and time. Words failed me as I smiled at Tyler through a mouth full of lamb while my eyes rolled back in my head. Unfortunately I had no room for dessert after I practically licked the plate clean and gnawed the last bits off the bone. Just kidding, it was a classy establishment so I did no gnawing although I did contemplate it.

So to make up for our lack of dessert last night I threw this cake together this afternoon. It was a very simple cake, as flourless cakes often are. It starts with a stick of melted butter. It would be good to use a double boiler but I was in a rush so I just used the microwave. Into the warm butter I put a cup of semisweet chocolate chips and a cup of nutella and stirred until combined. I had to microwave it for a few more seconds just to get it perfectly smooth.

I added a cup of sugar and a half cup of almond meal. The recipe called for ground hazelnuts but I was plumb out so I improvised. The recipe also said you could substitute 2 Tblsp of regular flour for the ground nuts but that would make it a flour-full cake instead of flourless. By the way, this cake is gluten free as long as you don't use regular flour.

After I mixed the sugar in I mixed in 4 eggs one at a time. I poured the batter into an 8 inch cake pan and sprinkled a few more chocolate chips over the top and put a few dollops of nutella on the top and swirled it in. Then I put it into a 350 degree oven. It took about 40 minutes to bake.

Serving it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream should be required. On the Boyfriend Scale, from 1 to 5, this cake got a 10! The cake is moist on the inside and crunchy on the outside, like a good brownie.

FLOURLESS NUTELLA CAKE
Adapted from sugaryandbuttery.com

1 stick butter

1 cup dark or semisweet chocolate chips

1 cup nutella

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup ground hazelnuts or almonds OR 2 Tblsp all purpose flour

4 eggs

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Melt the chocolate and butter over a double boiler or in the microwave. Stir in the ground nuts and sugar. Stir in the eggs one at a time.

Pour the mixture into a greased 9 inch cake pan sprinkle with chocolate chips and swirl a few dollops of nutella into batter, bake for about 30 minutes or until the top cracked.

Bonus kitty picture!