Chocolate nut cake

Name: Chocolate nut cake
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 7-10 Tbsp some + 80 g soft butter; 7-10 Tbsp Breadcrumbs; 150 g chilled dark chocolate; 200 g ground hazelnuts; 1 heaped Tsp baking powder; 5 Eggs (Gr. M); 80 g Sugar; 1 package Vanilla sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

AUTHOR
Kate Willis

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
105 mins

TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12

7-10 Tbsp some + 80 g soft butter
7-10 Tbsp Breadcrumbs
150 g chilled dark chocolate
200 g ground hazelnuts
1 heaped Tsp baking powder
5 Eggs (Gr. M)
80 g Sugar
1 package Vanilla sugar
7-10 Tbsp Salt
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

Directions

1
Grease a springform pan (approx. 20 cm Ø) and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Finely grate the chocolate. Mix with nuts and baking powder. Separate the eggs. Beat egg whites until stiff.
2
Preheat oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Cream 80 g butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and 1 pinch of salt with the whisks of the mixer. Stir in egg yolk. Stir in the chocolate-nut mixture (the dough becomes very firm).
3
Stir in half the beaten egg white first. Then fold in the remaining beaten egg white in portions.
4
Fill the dough into the springform pan and smooth it down. Bake in a hot oven for approx. 45 minutes (test with wooden sticks). Remove from the oven and place on a cake rack. Carefully remove the cake from the edge of the springform pan with a knife and let it cool down in the pan.
5
Remove from the mould. Dust with icing sugar.