Norwegian Hazelnut Cake
Total Time: 1 hr
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 16
- 5 ounces hazelnuts (filberts)
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
- 1 dash salt
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Recipe
- 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
- 2 lightly grease bottom only of a 10-inch springform pan.
- 3 reserve 8 whole hazelnuts for garnish.
- 4 with a blender or food processor, grind hazelnuts to a coarse meal (makes about 1 1/3 cups).
- 5 reserve 1 tablespoon ground hazelnuts for garnish.
- 6 melt butter; set aside to cool.
- 7 in a large bowl, beat eggs, sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla until thick and lemon colored, about 2-3 minutes.
- 8 lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off.
- 9 add flour, baking powder, and ground hazelnuts; mix well.
- 10 continue beating, adding cooled, melted butter gradually until well blended.
- 11 (mixture will be quite thick).
- 12 spread batter in prepared pan.
- 13 bake for 35-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- 14 cool 15 minutes; remove sides of pan.
- 15 run long knife under cake to loosen from pan bottom; invert onto serving plate.
- 16 allow to cool about 30 minutes, covered with light cloth towel.
- 17 to prepare glaze, bring half-and-half and salt just to a boil; remove from heat.
- 18 stir in chocolate chips and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla until melted and smooth.
- 19 spread glaze over top of cake, allowing some to drizzle down the sides.
- 20 sprinkle reserved ground hazelnuts around the top edge of the cake.
- 21 halve reserved whole hazelnuts; arrange around top edge of cake over nut garnish.
- 22 store in a tightly closed cake container as this cake will dry out.
- 23 i have also frozen it successfully.
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