Description: The most delicious deception of the Dark Lord – even distrustful Elves will believe this is the real thing! Extra tasty served with whipped cream.

Submitted by: Malinornë on 2003-12-06 06:23:46

Serves: 6-8

Prep Time: 40 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

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Ingredients

3.5 oz. butter
2 eggs
1 1/3 cups sugar
6 cup flour
1 tsp. vanilla sugar
3 tbsp. cocoa powder
3 tbsp. hazelnuts, coarsely chopped

Note: No baking powder needed.


Instructions

Preheat oven to 390 degrees F.

Melt butter over low heat or in microwave.

Whip eggs and sugar together to a light fluff, 5 minutes with an electric mixer. Add flour, vanilla sugar, cocoa powder and melted butter. Mix well.

Put mixture into a greased and floured round 8” cake-pan. Sprinkle nuts on top.

Bake 20-25 minutes. Cake will be rather flat and is supposed to be a little “humid”, so be careful not to bake it too long.

Cool before frosting, if desired.