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The Joys of Nutella Cake –My Angst with it!

My passion for baking began years ago, during secondary school, when I found out my aunt baked exceedingly good cakes (and not the Mr Kipling’s variety)!  Fresh cream cake with fresh fruit –yes I know –yummmmm!  However, I did not take this up fully until the last ten years of my life and I only stuck with my aunts trusted recipe.  Example of one successful baking session can be seen as above:

It took me a good few tries to perfect this (there were times when I only used 15gr of flour as opposed to 150gr!  I was young; I had written the ingredients incorrectly; I could not understand why the cake would rise beautifully in the oven then fall flat when it came out and on top of that, why it resembled a biscuit rather than a cake!  I was not impressed –an understatement of my thoughts at the time); the end results finally paid off and it was a success with all my friends and family and was devoured instantly; see below after a party of five us had a cake feast!
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