Happy Birthday to Me!

Wow… what an insane year it has been! I’m turning 28 - I think - and time is going by so quickly with each year that passes.

The growth that I see from Homemade by Celena is so inspiring and I can’t help but correlate it with my growing age as well.

Birthday Cake

Birthdays are a big deal around the Grant household, but I’ve always appreciated a small and intimate birthday celebration. My ideal birthday celebration is family, good conversation, belly-laughs, rest, and of course - cake!

Last year as I was just getting my feet wet with Homemade by Celena, I made myself an Ice Cream Sundae Cake for my birthday as I was on an ice cream kick at the time (go figure). It was absolutely delicious and I loved every bite.

This year as I thought about what cake I wanted to bake myself, I thought about what foods I had been super into lately. A few ideas crossed my mind… breakfast food, Biscoff cookies, and Ferrero Rocher chocolates.

I already have a few cakes with Biscoff incorporated into them, and I’m planning on making a pancake cake in the future, but the Ferrero Rocher idea really stuck with me.

Ferrero Rocher Cake

This cake is every chocolate lover’s dream.

• Dark chocolate cake layers

• Ferrero Rocher filling

• Nutella buttercream

• Dark chocolate ganache

You read that right, friend! Nutella is the PERFECT compliment to Ferrero Rocher chocolates and the pair is a combination you definitely need in your life - whether it’s in cake form or not!

The Cake

My go-to, no-fail chocolate cake layers are the base of this decadent cake. I doubled my recipe to really capture the chocolate element of the candy. 

The Filling

I went simple with this one and used a hazelnut mousse with some chopped Ferrero Rocher candies.

The Buttercream

To match the emphasis on the chocolate emulating from the cake layers, we have a strong - but not too strong - hazelnut buttercream thanks to Nutella. 

It all came together beautifully and as it turns out, this is everything I’ve ever wanted for a birthday cake, I just didn’t know it!

Enjoy!