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Hazelnut and Chocolate Cake
This is it: Chocolate, sprinkled hazelnut, chopped cooking chocolate, the thick glaze, all coming together in a cake.
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Hazelnut and Chocolate Cake

INGREDIENTS

400 gr. All purpose flour 100 gr. Finely Ground hazelnuts 1 ½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1 vanilla 220 gr. Horio Soft with Cow Butter (in room temperature) 350 gr. sugar 4 eggs 450 gr. 2% yogurt 2 tbsp hazelnut licqueur or cognac 150 gr. Chopped cooking chocolate

INGREDIENTS For the glaze

200 gr. Powdered sugar 3-4 tbsp water 1-2 tbsp hazelnuts (whole)

DIRECTIONS

  1. Grease a bundt-cake cakepan (diameter of 28-30 cm, with a hole in the middle) and sprinkle with flour
  2. Using a mixer, beat Horio Soft with Cow Butter with the sugar for 4-5 minutes until fluffly; Add each egg one by one and in the end, add licqueur / cognac
  3. In a bowl mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and vanilla.
  4. In the mixer, add 1/3 of the flour mixture and ½ of the yogurt; then add 1/3 of the flour mixture and the other ½ yogurt and finally, add the remaining 1/3 of the flour mixture
  5. Using a spatula, add the ground hazelnuts and chopped chocolate and mix
  6. Pour mixture into the cakepan and bake in a preheated oven at 170 degree Celcius; Use a toothpick to check when cake is done, if when removed it comes out dry, then the cake is ready
  7. After the cake has cooled, pour the glaze: in a bowl, mix the powdered sugar with water that is added slowly, until a thick glaze is produced (you may need more or less water depending on the type of sugar used); Spread on the cake and sprinkle whole hazelnuts and/or chopped chocolate