My favorite grocery store has to be our local Tesco Extra.  In addition to having everything from air mattresses to Star Wars lunchboxes (want) to an assortment of cookbooks, there is one shelf in the store that I love.  It contains an incredibly broad assortment of spreads, jams, honeys and baking spreads.  There’s even a variety of cookie butters – everything from chocolate chip to Oreos.  Oreo cookie butter?  Heaven.  I’d been seeing this spread in the aisle and I’d been totally torn on what to make with it.  That is, until I was idly watching The Pioneer Woman, and I came across a layer cake using Nutella.  Perfect.

Chocolate Layer Cake (adapted from The Pioneer Woman and Delicious magazine)

Ingredients:

225g unsalted butter

225g caster sugar

4 large eggs

1 tablespoon milk

100g self-raising flour

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 bag of mini Milky Way Simply Caramels

1 jar of chocolate and caramel spread

Cream together sugar and butter.

Mix in eggs and milk.

Sift in dry ingredients.

Pour the batter equally into two greased sandwich tins.  Place Milky Ways in a star shaped pattern in the sandwich tins.

Bake for 25 minutes at 180C and allow to cool.

Put a healthy layer of chocolate caramel spread on top of both layers.  Place one above the other into a sandwich form.

It is a lovely rich cake, so make sure to not take too huge a slice!