German Hazelnut Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 9 ounces butter (1 1/4 cups) or 9 ounces margarine (1 1/4 cups)
• 7 ounces sugar (1 cup)
• 4 eggs
• 2 drops bitter almond essence
• 9 ounces all-purpose flour (2 1/4 cups)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 9 ounces ground hazelnuts (1 1/4 cups)
• 1 3/4 ounces swiss chocolate, finely chopped
• icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 mix together the sugar, eggs and flavouring and set aside.
• 3 in another bowl, cream the butter and gradually add it to the sugar mixture.
• 4 mix the flour, baking powder and ground nuts together.
• 5 add it to the sugar and butter mixture a spoonful at a time.
• 6 fold in the chocolate.
• 7 grease a 26 cm (10 1/2 ") ring baking tin and fill with the batter.
• 8 bake in preheated oven for 50 to 65 minutes.
• 9 test cake for doneness by piercing the middle with a wodden toothpick; if it's clean it's done.
• 10 remove from oven and allow to stand for 5 to 10 minutes, loosen from sides of tin with knife then turn out onto a cake wire so that it can dry off.
• 11 dust the cooled cake with icing sugar.