Flourless Nutella Hazelnut Cake

Flourless Nutella Cake

Serves: 10 or 12

9” round loose base cake pan, greased

Preheat: 180°c

Ingredients

(A)       125g soft butter (cut cubes)

400g Nutella (1 big jar)

(B)        6 (L) eggs yolk

100g grounded hazelnuts

2 tbsp. hazelnuts liqueur or rum

(C)        100g dark semisweet chocolate 60% - chopped (melted)

(D)       6 (L) eggs white

A pinch of cream of tartar

For Topping

100g hazelnut without skin (toasted) keep aside

125g dark chocolate 60% (chopped)(sweet or unsweetened)

125ml whipping cream/heavy cream

2 tbsp. hazelnut liqueur or rum

 Method

1.     Preheat the oven. Beat (A) till butter are combine and smooth texture. Add the (B) egg yolks one at a time till all finish then follow by ground hazelnut and rum.

2.     Fold in the cooled melted chocolate and mixed till all well combined. Keep aside.

3.     In another mixing bowl, whisk (D) egg whites till stiff.

4.     Add a large dollop of egg white into the chocolate mixture. Here you can mix as hard as you want. Then the rest of the egg whites, you have to fold as gentle as possible till all finish.

5.     Pour into the prepared grease pan and baked for 40-45 minutes or until the cake begin to come away from the side of the cake pan or insert a stick and it’s come out clean. Cool on a rack before unmold the cake. Once cold unmold carefully.

Toast the Nuts: In a dry frying pan, toast the nuts until aroma and golden brown color. Keep shaking the pan so that they don’t burn and evenly toasted. Keep aside to cool.

Topping: In a saucepan, add cream, liqueur and chocolate and gently heat. Once chocolate melted, remove the pan from heat and whisk till smooth and shining. Gently pour onto the top of the cake and dot the toasted hazelnuts on top.

 

Notes: Don’t buy hazelnuts with skin, can use slice almond. Can use another liqueur if don’t have rum or hazelnut liqueur. This cake is less sweet, if you want a bit sweeter, you can use sweet chocolate then dark chocolate but the cake color will be lighter brown.

 

 

Equipment: KitchenAid mixer

 

West Metric Sdn Bhd, Jan 2016