So today me and my boyfriend decided to do some baking! And for a while I've been eager to try making 'nutella brownies' after seeing them on MacBarbie07's youtube video, although I didn't follow her recipe, I went searching about online and in recipe books to see if I could find any other recipe! Here's a picture of the 'final' product if you like, of our brownie/cake!

It doesn't look the most appetizing in this picture, but I can assure you 100% that it tastes divine! Went back for another cheeky piece as did my Dad,brother and my boyfriend! We topped it off with a layer of chocolate frosting and walnuts { sadly I didn't get a picture, obviously too eager to devour it before photographing it! }
~ I call it the 'nutella brownie cake' because it seemed only one half of it had come out like a brownie, and the top of  it just seemed to be pure cake! A bit like a marble cake! ~


♡ NUTELLA BROWNIE CAKE RECIPE ♡

INGREDIENTS 
~ 175g softened butter
~ 175g golden caster sugar
~ 3 eggs
~ 200g self-raising flour
~ 1 tsp baking powder
~ 4 tbsp milk
~ 4 rounder tbsp of Nutella or chocolate hazelnut spread (we used Asda's own- so much better for price and tastes the same!)
~ Walnuts (no specified amount, just use however much you prefer!) 

♡  Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4/fan 160C. Butter and line a base of a 9" square tin or any tin you would like to use- the original recipe was for a cake of about 20cm round tin, but as we wanted a more brownie looking turnout, we went for something smaller! (we also used a silicone 'tin' as it was a lot easier to remove the cake from after!)
♡ Put the butter, sugar,eggs,flour,baking powder,cinnamon and milk into a bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon for 2-3 minutes (until light and fluffy) OR use an electric whisk! (We went with the good old manual way, but I'd recommend using an electric whisk- a lot more effective and less time consuming! - unless you have a man in the house!) 
♡ Tip 3/4 of the mixture into the tin, then spread it level, then spoon the Nutella on in four blobs (we went overboard with about 6 blobs, but hey ho! Chocoholics are us!) Top it off with the remaining quarter of the mixture, then swirl the mixture so the Nutella binds in until the mixture looks somewhat marble like! Finally, smooth the mixture all over! 
♡ Sprinkle the top with walnuts, then bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes (for ours, we cooked for about 50 minutes as it seemed ready! Just keep cooking and checking on it, then use a cocktail stick when checking, and stick it into parts of the cake - if the cocktail stick comes out clean, it's probably ready!) 


Enjoy! 
xoxo