Recipe: Hazelnut soft Cake

Name: Gâteau moelleux aux noisettes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 8 portions
Ingredients: 200 g de noisettes (si vous trouvez celles dites du Piemont )torréfiées (pour torréfier : versez les noisettes dans la poêle et remuez jusqu'a ce qu'elles embaument la cuisine puis passez les au mixer pour en préparer une jolie poudre ); 5 oeufs; 120 g de sucre en poudre+80 g pour "serrer" les blancs; 1 zeste de citron; sucre glace

By chef patrick Asfaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 (21 reviews) Desserts

Prep 15 min

Cook 45 min

Total 1h

Servings 8 serv.

Ingredients for 8 servings

Hazelnut soft Cake, serves 6 to 8 people

200 grams (7 ounces) of roasted hazelnuts (turn the nuts into powder in a mixer, put the powder into a heated frying pan without any fat, stir continuously until you get a light-brown colour. Let cool and keep aside)
5 eggs
120 gr (4 ounces) of sugar

a piece of lemon peelicing sugar

Step-by-step directions

Clarify the eggs.

Blanch the yolks with 120 gr (4 ounces) of sugar (blanch: whip until the mixture becomes white).

Whisk up the whites and at the end, mix in the remaining sugar (80 gr) and carry on whisking for 30 seconds.

Lay the whites on top of the yolks and gently mix by lifting with a spatula. When done, mix in the roasted hazelnut powder.

Poor the mixture into a a non-adhesive sponge-cake baking-tin (Tefal or Flexopan).

Bake for 35-40 mn at 180° C. As usual, probe the cake with the tip of a knife which should come out hot and dry.

10 mn after taking it out of the oven, remove it from the baking-tin, let it cool on a grille and powder it with icing-sugar.

Loads of little things can complement your hazelnut soft Cake :

A nice warm chocolate-sauce, custard with little bits of toasted coffee, that same custard flavoured with liquorice or even sauterne wine or acacia honey… A real love poem !

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