Chocolate raisin Nutella cake!

This is such a yummy cake!  I love to serve it with Cream and a Cherry compote but it's great as it is too!

Ingredients:

• Cocoa powder 25g
• Butter, salted 125g
• Sugar - golden caster 125g
• Rasiins 150g
• 5ml vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 125g Plain flour
• 5ml baking powder
• Nutella

Preheat oven at 170 degrees C

Grease a 10 inch round cake tray


Mix the butter and sugar together until creamed well.

Add the eggs and beat well.

Add the vanilla, cocoa powder and raisins

Fold in the flour mixed with the baking powder

Pour half your mix into the greased tray and then generously dollop nutella in the centre.  One or two good table spoons of it.

Add the other half of the mix on top.

Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, until the cake feels sponge when you press down on the top of it.

Leave to cool or eat warm!  Both ways are delish!

Nutella cookies!!!

These are crunchy chocolate nutty yumminess! Here's how to make them...

Ingredients:

100g sugar
100g butter
2 tablespoons nutella
300g flour
1 egg

Optional: Peanut butter

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 200 C or 180 C for fan ovens.

Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl.

Add the Nutella, stirring it in well.

Add the egg and beat into the mix until smooth.

Mix in half the flour and then add the rest of the flour.  Mix it in until you have a ball of cookie dough!


All you have to do now is lightly flour a clean surface, roll it out until it's about 5mm thick and find your favourite cookie cutters.

This made about 25 cookies for us.

Put in the oven for 10 minutes.  Leave to cool then enjoy.

Optional, but delicious: once cooled spread some peanut butter on one cookie and then sandwich it with another cookie.  It's scummy!