Jamie Oliver chocolate celebration cake with rice cereal and nougat frosting recipe on Jamie’s Comfort Food

If you love chocolate, then Jamie Oliver has a delicious treat for you. He makes a tasty looking chocolate celebration cake with puffed rice cereal and nougat frosting on Jamie’s Comfort Food.

Jamie says: “This chocolate celebration cake will reset everyone’s expectations of what a chocolate cake should be – it’s delicious, it has incredible texture, it looks absolutely amazing, and it’s a pleasure to make and watch people enjoying.”

The ingredients for the sponge are: 250 g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing, 150 g quality dark chocolate (70%), 2 tablespoons olive oil, 300 g caster sugar, 6 large free-range eggs, 150 g self-raising flour and 4 tablespoons quality cocoa powder.

For the chocolate rice layer: 300 g quality dark chocolate (70%), plus extra to serve, 1 large knob of butter, 1 splash of double cream and 100 g puffed rice cereal.

For the nougat frosting: 2 large free-range egg whites, 3 tablespoons runny honey, 200 g caster sugar, ½ teaspoon cream of tartar, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract and ½ teaspoon orange blossom , or rose water, or natural pink food colouring (all optional.