I made this cake at the wish of my daughter. In fact we were doing it together: I was cutting the chocolate, she was throwing them in the bowl to melt... and what a lovely experience we had!
When I've read the recipe I had one remark... there is no raising agent in this cake.... no baking powder, no yeast.... hmmm... I was wandering if will raise or just stay flat and dense. Well, when the cake was in the oven I was watching it closely in the beginning to see if it will become solid at first and get a crust. When I saw that this was happening I was going away from the oven and do other thing. When the alarm of the oven rang, I had a shock... seeing the most weird raise of a cake. It was tall on the edges and in the middle in 2 little hills. When my daughter saw it, she said loudly...mommy it got breasts... and we all had a good laugh together. (you can see them in the plates by the way :) )
The brownie was incredibly delicious... so my daughter ate 3 pieces, one after another. DE LI CI OUS ! And a little secret .... I'll redo this cake for the birthday party of my daughter .... sssssst.
Ingredients:
- 400g of black chocolate
- 100g of hazelnuts (sliced in 3-4 pieces)
- 250g butter (diced)
- 100g of sugar (my chocolate was already a bit sweet so I have reduced drastically the initial recommendation of 300g... and I'll have done it anyway!)
- 2 tablespoons of icing sugar
- 4 tablespoons of all purpose flour
- 8 eggs
Directions:
- In the metallic bowl of the standing mixer (if you do not have one, use another metallic or heat-resistant bowl) melt the chocolate in bain marie.
- Add icing sugar and butter in the melted chocolate and mix until well combined.
- Remove the bowl from the heating source and put it back to the mixer.
- Start mixing and add the eggs one by one while mixing continuously because the chocolate is hot.
- Add sugar, flour and hazelnuts and mix.
- Butter the cake pan. I have used a glass one but any type can be used.
- Pour the chocolate composition into the pan.
- Bake the brownie in the preheated oven at 170ºC for 1 hour.
- When done, take it out of the oven and let it cool in the pan before cutting it.
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