A recipe for Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Cake! This coffee cake has a crumbly chocolate cinnamon streusel topping and creamy chocolate hazelnut center perfect for pairing with coffee or tea.
Secret Recipe Club
Time for another Secret Recipe Club post! I can’t believe this post marks one year with the club. In the Secret Recipe Club, each blogger is assigned a different blog each month.
They secretly choose a recipe, prepare it, and post it on a designated day. It is so much fun on reveal day to see what recipes everyone has chosen!
This month I was excited to find out I was assigned Sew You Think You Can Cook! Lauren is a close friend and this has been quite a busy summer for our families.
She recently had a baby and in the past couple of weeks, we have both left Florida for different areas of the country. I am so glad I got a chance to meet baby Wesley before our moves.
I have already made some amazing recipes from her blog: Rolled Pancakes, Brown Sugar Tomato Pasta, Chorizo Mac and Cheese, and Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas.
These have also been saved for later: Blender Salsa, Cookies and Creme Milkshake, and Strawberry Balsamic Pizza.
Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Cake
When trying to decide on a recipe, I was a little limited due to first trimester food aversions and currently being in transit with our move.
I am borrowing my parents’ kitchen, so I wanted to make something fairly simple.
This Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Cake was perfect. I pinned it a few months ago and am glad I finally got the opportunity to try it.
A thick, yogurt-based batter is arranged in a pan with a layer of chocolate hazelnut spread, then covered with a cinnamon chocolate streusel and baked until puffed and golden.
Allow to rest for a few minutes before slicing and serving with coffee or tea.
Looking for more recipes with chocolate hazelnut spread?
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A Few Tips
Lauren suggested using a 9×9 inch (23×23 centimeter) pan for the cake. I used an 8×8 inch (20×20 centimeter), but agree that 9×9 would work well for less mess. The cake came out quite high and the edges of the streusel overflowed a bit.
If using an 8×8 inch (20×20 centimeter) baking dish, place it on a baking sheet in the oven to catch any crumbs.
The exact cooking time may differ based on the size of the pan.
Use all of the topping. It will spread a bit as the coffee cake rises in the oven.
When I need to work with chocolate hazelnut spread, I often microwave it for about 20 seconds to make it more runny and easier to spread without pressing down into the batter.
I followed Lauren’s lead and used plain whole milk yogurt, but you can also substitute with sour cream.
Cook the Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Cake until fully set. This will take around 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes.
Check out what everyone else made:
- My Very Best Blueberry Coffeecake from Fantastical Sharing
- Vanilla Extract from Sew You Think You Can Cook
- Creamy Peanut Chicken over Greens from Shockingly Delicious
- Baked Jam Doughnut Muffins from Lavender and Lovage
- Taco Salad from Bewitching Kitchen
- Dairy-Free Easy Blackberry Basil Ice Cream from Oh! You Cook!
- Cookie Dough Fudge from Loving Life
- Tomato Bacon Jam from Making Miracles
- Blueberry Margaritas from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Cake Recipe
Adapted from Sew You Think You Can Cook
Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Topping:
- 3/4 cup (94 grams) all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup (130 grams) light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons (70 grams) unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons (12 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup (50 grams) rolled oats
Cake:
- 2 cups (250 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons (113 grams) unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 1 cup (230 grams) plain whole milk yogurt divided
- 1 cup (300 grams) chocolate hazelnut spread
Instructions
To make the topping:
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt.
- Cut in the butter using your fingers or a dough blender to create a crumbly, coarse texture.
- Mix in the cocoa powder and oats, then refrigerate until needed.
To make the Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Cake:
- Place rack in center of oven and preheat to 350˚F (180˚C). Line an 8×8 inch (20×20 centimeter) or 9×9 inch (23×23 centimeter) baking dish with parchment paper or grease and dust well with flour.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract.
- Mix in 1/3rd of the flour mixture, just until incorporated.
- Mix in 1/2 cup of the yogurt.
- Add another 1/3rd of the flour, remaining 1/2 cup of yogurt, then remaining flour mixture just until combined with no streaks of flour remaining.
- Transfer half of the batter into the prepared baking dish.
- Evenly top with the chocolate hazelnut spread. If needed, microwave the chocolate hazelnut spread for about 20 seconds makes it easier to spread.
- Top with dollops of the remaining batter and use a knife or toothpick to lightly swirl.
- Cover thoroughly with the prepared, cold topping.
- Place the dish on a baking sheet and transfer to the preheated oven. Bake until puffed and a knife inserted in center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes depending on the size of your pan.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.
lk529
Microwaving the Nutella – why didn’t I think of that!? But then again, I don’t use the ingredient as much as you do! 😉
I’m glad you all liked the cake – and glad you could stomach it! I’m so excited for you guys and baby #2 and hate that I’m now too far away to meet him/her (I guess him!) in the hospital next spring.
Thanks, Tara. Love you and miss you. <3
Lynsey @lynseylous
You had me at Nutella! This coffee cake looks amazing. Happy reveal day!
Rebekah @ Making Miracles
I love this! It looks absolutely wonderful. I know my hubby and son would be a huge fan of this recipe – great choice this month!!
Karen Burns Booth
What a wonderful recipe and a perfect cake for coffee in the afternoon! Karen
sallybr
Happy First SRC anniversary! You picked a great recipe for your assignment, I see Nutella and I immediately start to dream about it….
Have a wonderful Reveal Monday! The collection of recipes this month is pretty amazing!
hapatite
This looks so divine! I should run a swirl of nutella through my coffee cake when I make it next 🙂
hapatite
P.S. — I had your blog for this month’s SRC & I made your Curried Vegetable Noodles. They were so scrumptious!
Jess @ Flying on Jess Fuel
I had nutella this weekend for the first time in forever and forgot how amazing it is! This coffee cake is picture perfect and sounds SO yummy!! Great pick!
Melissa
You had me at nutella! Also, happy SRC anniversary! Great pick this month 🙂
Wendy, A Day in the Life on the Farm
I don’t think I have ever tried nutella but I won’t be able to say that after I make this delicious sounding recipe.
A Kitchen Hoor
I LOVE LOVE LOVE nutella!! I honestly think I could eat a whole jar with a spoon. This looks fabulous! Pinned.
avril
I just love the pictures of your son eating the coffee cake….beautiful! And that coffee cake is fabulous looking too!!! Wonderful SRC pick for the month 🙂
Sarah E. (@sjanee11)
Aw! Love that some of our Group D members are friends in real life – that’s so awesome! I went coffeecake too for reveal day – but yum yum yum NUTELLA!! Pinning this to remember to make soon 🙂 Happy reveal day!
shockinglydelicious
Did someone say Nutella? I am in!
Karen @ Karen's Kitchen Stories
That tall coffee cake looks delicious and your son is adorable. How fun that you got to make a friend’s recipe!
Couscous & Consciousness
I had never actually made coffee cake until I tried a cinnamon walnut version for an SRC assignment a few months back. It was such a hit, I’ve been meaning to try another one ever since. As I’m a big Nutella fan, this looks like it might be the one 🙂 Great pick.
emmajeanne16
All of those recipes sound delicious but I love the Nutella coffee cake. What is not to love? Great SRC pick!
Odelle Smith
Coffee, Pecan & Nutella swirl coffee cake with crunchy topping, how gorgeous will this be….
Pecan’s will go well I think with this delight, who can possibly add more to perfection, not me!
I hope that I can master it as lovely as you have, I do like the added height, more cake to a slice perhaps!
Yes, it’s great you’ve shared friends recipes, will have a browse through.
On a more savory note, I do like the sound of your curried noodles, they’ll be ideal for a different meal….
Thanks for sharing Tara & all the best with your pregnancy….Good Luck! It will be exciting to see pics of your new arrival, with all my best wishes & love to you & your family,
Odelle Smith x.
Tara
Thanks so much!
Odelle Smith
ps. Pinning & re-posting, this is a sure winner in my books!
Odelle Smith x.