Chocolate and hazelnut cake: the recipe for a mouthwatering dessert

Name: Chocolate and hazelnut cake: the recipe for a mouthwatering dessert
Uploaded: 2023-01-03T11:04:31Z
Duration: PT481.443S
Channel: Recipe ideas

published on 3 January, 2023 at 12:04

Ingredients:

- For the batter:

250 g of chocolate

250 g of whipping cream

4 eggs

A pinch of salt

140 g of granulated sugar

10 g of vanilla sugar

59 g of melted butter

110 g of flour

30 g of cocoa powder

3 g of baking powder

- For the filling cream:

330 g of crema cheese

50 g of powdered sugar

200 g of whipping cream

50 g of toasted and chopped hazelnuts

Coffee

80/100 ml of milk or liquor

- For decoration

100 g of chocolate

10 g of vegetable oil

25 g of toasted and chopped hazelnuts

Directions:

1. Start by pouring hot whipping cream onto chocolate. Mix until it's completely melted, then let it cool in the fridge for 2 hours covered with some plastic wrap.

2. In a bowl mix eggs, salt, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar. Whip the mix for 10 minutes until it's white and foamy.

3. Add melted butter and mix again.

4. Mix and sift the powders (flour, cocoa and baking powder). Mix them into the batter in two times.

5. Pour the batter in a cake pan (18 cm diameter) covered in baking paper.

6. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 160 degrees for 60 minutes.

7. Cut the cake into 3 equal layers.

8. Now make the cream by combining cream cheese, powdered sugar and whipping cream. Mix until you get a smooth cream.

9. Combine with the chocolate ganache you made before but keep some of it aside.

10. In what's left of the chocolate ganache mix chopped hazelnuts.

11. Now assemble the dessert with cake layers wet with a coffee and milk (or liquor) mix, chocolate cream and chocolate ganache in the middle.

12. Refine the cake exterior with chocolate cream too.

13. Let cool in the fridge for 6 to 8 hours.