Wednesday 20 July 2011

Chocolate Hazelnut Cake

This cake is moist and improves with flavour the following day.

Bake in a loaf tin or in rounds or as individual cakes.

100g butter

100g ground hazelnut

180g brown sugar

100g dark choc

20g milk (about a tablespoon)

4 egg yolks

100g self raising flour

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

4 egg whites

20g brown sugar



Preheat oven to 170C

Melt the chocolate and butter in a microwave for about 1 minute on high. Stir to ensure all chocolate is melted, return to microwave if needed.

Stir in the yolks, 180g sugar, ground hazelnut and milk

Whisk the whites with the 40g of sugar to stiff peaks

Fold in half the white to the mixture, then fold in the flour in which the soda and cream of tartar have been sieved.

Finish with the remaining whites.

Turn the mixture into prepared moulds/tins (butter and coat sides with flour or more ground hazelnuts)

Cook for 34 minutes- 1 hour depending on the mould/tin you use.



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