Pillowy milk chocolate and Nutella mousse surrounds a rich cocoa brownie slathered with creamy Nutella. If that’s not impressive enough, the whole thing is enrobed in a gorgeous milk chocolate mirror glaze and decorated with an edible gold splatter.

This stunner of a cake is sure to impress your friends and family this holiday season, and with some well-planned time management, is really much easier than you might think.

I’ve been wanting to make a chocolate mirror glaze ever since I made those blueberry mirror glazed cakes this past summer (can you blame me for wanting to mirror-glaze everything? Too pretty!)

As it turns out, you can easily make milk chocolate or dark chocolate mirror glaze simply by swapping out the white chocolate. Everything else about the recipe is identical, as is the process.

While I normally say, when it comes to chocolate, go dark or go home, in this case milk chocolate is the star (and I wouldn’t have it any other way). Paired with Nutella, it makes for a uniquely sweet dessert with layers of contrasting textures and complimentary flavors.

Just look at those luscious layers, each one good on its own, but great in combination.

A rich cocoa brownie slathered with a layer of creamy Nutella.

A light and airy milk chocolate Nutella mousse. If there were such thing as a Nutella cloud, this is what it’d taste like.

And finally, a stunning milk chocolate mirror glaze to finish it off, complete with gold splatter detail and milk chocolate flakes around the edges.

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