Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 "9 inch two layer cake"
ingredients
-
Cake
- 340.19 g hazelnuts, toasted and skins removed
- 9.85 ml baking powder
- 6 egg yolks
- 6 egg whites
- 149.05 ml granulated sugar
- 118.29 ml Kahlua
- 113.39 g semisweet chocolate, melted
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Mocha Cream Frosting
- 9.85 ml instant coffee or 9.85 ml freeze-dried coffee
- 9.85 ml boiling water
- 473.18 ml semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 236.59 ml sweet butter, softened
- 2 eggs
directions
- For cake, preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease a 9 inch springform pan.
- Grind toasted hazelnuts in food processor until very finely chopped.
- Stir in baking powder and set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat egg yolks with sugar until pale in color.
- Mix in ground hazelnuts, Kahlua and melted chocolate.
- In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff.
- Quickly fold 1/3 of the egg whites into chocolate mixture to lighten the mixture.
- Then add remaining whites and fold until no white streaks remain.
- Pour into springform pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 60-70 minutes or until top of cake springs back when lightly touched.
- Cool on wire rack.
- When cake is cool, slice horizontally into 2 layers.
- Drizzle each cut side with 1 tbsp Kahlua.
- To make frosting, dissolve coffee in boiling water.
- Set aside.
- Melt chips in microwave oven, stir until smooth.
- Set aside.
- In medium bowl, combine butter and eggs, beat until creamy.
- Beat in melted chips and coffee, mixing until well blended.
- Spread generously between layers, down the sides and on the top of the cake.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MMers
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I'm a small animal veterinary technician working full time. In my spare (?) time I love to bake and cook. I have about 80 different cookbooks and I guess my favorite ones are those that involve CHOCOLATE!!
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<br>My biggest 'pet' peeve is people who treat their dogs and cats like disposable products...look after the health and well-being of your pets, PLEASE! They depend on you! ('Nuff said!).
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<br>June 2003 Update: I now work part-time as a vet tech and part-time as an ER ward clerk at a local hospital. After being a technician for 20 years, the emotional stress was getting too hard to handle. Putting an older pet to sleep after I'd watched them grow up over the years was something I could no longer do. I decided to look for a new job while I was still 40-something rather than wait 4 years when I was 50-something! Working with animals is in my blood however, so I could not give it up entirely.