This easy Nutella-drenched pancake cake is the ultimate Pancake Day stack for anyone who can’t resist a Nutella crêpe. Buy ready-made pancakes for extra convenience, or use our easy pancakes recipe to whip up a batch.
Or, for the last word in decadence, make this American-style pancake stack with caramelised banana and homemade Nutella-style sauce for your next blow-out brunch.
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Ingredients
- 300g Nutella (see tips)
- 150ml double cream
- 3 tbsp Frangelico or rum (see Know-how)
- 16 ready-made sweet crêpes or pancakes, about 20cm diameter (see tips)
- 70g chopped toasted hazelnuts
- Crème fraîche to serve (optional)
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Method
- Heat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/ gas 4. Put the Nutella, double cream and Frangelico (or rum) in a pan and warm very gently, stirring constantly, to melt everything together and form a smooth sauce. Allow to cool slightly.
- Put a crepe in a 20cm cake tin with a removable base, then spread over a thin layer of the sauce with the back of a spoon and add a scattering of hazelnuts. Put another crepe on top and repeat until all the crepes have been used up (leave the last crepe naked – you should still have some sauce and a few nuts left). Put an ovenproof plate or cake tin base on top of the crepes, then bake for 20 minutes until the pancake cake is hot throughout.
- Re-warm the chocolate sauce. Take the cake out of the oven, carefully remove the ovenproof plate or cake tin base from the top, then remove the sides of the cake tin, leaving the cake on its base. Drizzle with the remaining sauce and scatter with more hazelnuts. Cut the pancake cake into wedges to serve, with a dollop of crème fraîche if you like.
Nutrition
- 492kcals Calories
- 30.6g (10.4g saturated) Fat
- 6.4g Protein
- 44.4g (29.9g sugars) Carbs
- 1.2g Fibre
- 0.4g Salt
For 8 servings
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