This Chocolate Hazelnut Candy Cake has a chocolate cake base, a center of chocolate and hazelnut gelato, and has a candy shell made from hazelnut-studded chocolate.
Course Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Ice Cream
Cuisine American
Keyword chocolate hazelnut candy cake
Prep Time 8 hourshours
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 8 hourshours20 minutesminutes
Servings 12servings
Calories 465kcal
Author Rebecca Swanner
Ingredients
13oz.chocolate hazelnut rolled wafer cookiescrushed into paste
½boxchocolate cake mixor ½ favorite chocolate cake recipe
8oz.chocolate chipssuch as Private Selection chocolate chunks
6Tbsp.coconut oilmelted
¼cuphazelnutschopped
¼cupheavy cream
Instructions
Line 8" bowl with plastic wrap.
Spread chocolate hazelnut rolled wafer cookie paste in bowl. Make sure to go all the way up the sides. Place bowl in freeze for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, remove chocolate gelato from freezer.
Remove bowl from freezer. Spread chocolate gelato over cookie layer.
Place 6½" bowl on top of chocolate gelato layer and place in freezer for one hour. Remove hazelnut gelato from freezer after 30 minutes.
Remove bowl from freezer. Remove smaller bowl. Fill space with ½ pint of hazelnut gelato. Place 4½" bowl on top of hazelnut layer. Fill in space between hazelnut gelato and top of smaller bowl. Place in freezer for one hour. Remove chocolate gelato after 30 minutes.
Remove bowl from freezer. Remove smaller bowl. Fill bowl with chocolate gelato so until gelato is even with top of bowl. Place in freezer until gelato has hardened completely.
Meanwhile, bake the chocolate cake layer in an 8" or 9" round pan. Let cool completely.
Remove the bowl from the freezer and flip it onto the center of the chocolate cake set on cooling rack.