Chocolate-Hazelnut Cake

Name: Chocolate-Hazelnut Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened, plus additional butter for the pan; 6 ounces, semisweet or bittersweet chocolate; 1 1/3 cups, hazelnuts, toasted, skinned, and toasted again; 1 cup (7 ounces), sugar; 2 tablespoons, unbleached all-purpose flour; 5 , large eggs, separated, plus 1 large yolk; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; , Confectioners' sugar

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SERVES8

TIME1½ hours, plus 3 hours cooling

Italian Name:Torta gianduia

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from Tasting Italy

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The technique for our chocolate-hazelnut cake recipe was straightforward: In a mixer, we creamed the butter and sugar and added egg yolks, followed by melted chocolate and ground hazelnuts. We then whipped egg whites and folded them in, tra...

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