Tyrolean Nut Cake Tiroler Nusskuchen Recipes

VIENNESE CHOCOLATE-NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

TIROLER CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and salt, beat until you have a pale mass.
• Add the vanilla sugar and the milk.
• While stirring add the flour, the baking powder and the nut crumbs.
• Cut the chocolate into small pieces and mix in (I pulse briefly in a food processor).
• If you use a cake tin of 25 cm you have to bake it for about 45 minutes on 180°C A shorter pan will make a taller loaf.