Viennese Chocolate-Nut Cake

  4.0 – 2 reviews  • Austrian

Making this cake goes incredibly quickly and simply.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Additional Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 10
Yield: 1 loaf

Ingredients

  1. 1 ¼ cups margarine
  2. 1 ¼ cups white sugar
  3. 4 eggs
  4. 1 cup all-purpose flour
  5. 1 cup cornstarch
  6. 1 cup ground hazelnuts
  7. 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  8. 1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar (Optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan.
  2. Cream margarine and sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until well combined. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  3. Mix flour, cornstarch, hazelnuts, and cocoa powder in a separate bowl and quickly mix into the margarine mixture. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool completely before dusting with confectioners’ sugar.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 512 kcal
Carbohydrate 51 g
Cholesterol 66 mg
Dietary Fiber 3 g
Protein 6 g
Saturated Fat 5 g
Sodium 290 mg
Sugars 27 g
Fat 33 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Laurie Jenkins
I made this cake twice, one day apart, exactly as the recipe states. It is delicious, and had a wonderful nutty texture and hazelnut flavor. I am giving it four stars because both times I baked it, it was not done at one hour. The first one fooled me with the toothpick test and when I removed it from the pan, it was like a lava cake! Hence my making it a second time . And yes, the second time was baked through, and took 1 hour 15 at 350. It is a delightful cake! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Mrs. Dawn Watkins
This cake is tastes like fluffy nutella. Yum. It puffs up a lot, even though there isn’t any baking powder. Light and delicious, it goes very well with tea or coffee.

 

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