This nutella swirl loaf cake is the perfect afternoon tea cake that comes together quickly and easy. Simply whisk together eggs, oil and some good quality vanilla extract with flour and then swirl the top of the batter with a good dollop of Nutella. That's it. In 35 minutes flat you get a delicious vanilla nutella cake and a house that smells like a bakery.
1½cupAll-Purpose Flour With 2 tbsp of it replaced with equal amount of Cornflour
½cupRefined Oil
1/3cupGranulated Sugar
1tspBaking Powder
½tspBaking Soda
½cupMilk
1tspVanilla Extract
2Eggs
NutellaFor topping
Instructions
Take a bowl and mix all the dry ingredients together. Sieve them through and keep them aside.
Now, in another bowl, whisk the eggs with a pinch of salt, till light and almost 3 times in its volume.
Add oil and vanilla extract to the eggs and whisk them vigorously till light and airy.
Now, add the dry ingredients in three parts, alternating with the milk and mix gently. Once you see that the dry ingredients have incorporated nicely, stop mixing.
Now, pour the batter in a lightly oiled and floured cake tin
Use a spoon and drop small drops of Nutella spread on the top of the cake batter. Run a skewer through the Nutella drops to create beautiful swirls
Bake it at 180c for 35 minutes in a pre-heated oven. Once you see that the cake has baked and the sides are pulling back from the edges, you know that it is done.
Take it out and allow it to cool in the cake tin for 10 minutes before turning it upside down on a wire rack to cool down completely.