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Summary
This decadent hazelnut-chocolate layer cake from baker John Barricelli's "The SoNo Baking Company Cookbook" is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser: Serve for an elegant birthday dessert or showstopping end to any meal.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup whole hazelnuts
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 9 tablespoons cake flour
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 3 large egg yolks, at room temperature
- 3/4 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 tablespoon almond extract
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 5 large egg whites
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- Pinch of coarse salt
- 1 pound unsalted butter, firm but not chilled, cut into cubes
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 8 ounces milk chocolate, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons Dutch-processed unsweetened cocoa powder mixed with 2 tablespoons water
- 1/4 cup praline paste
Instructions
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Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 12
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 543 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 47 g 71.58%
- Saturated Fat: 21 g 106%
- Trans Fat: 1 g %
- Cholesterol: 81 mg 27.08%
- Sodium: 136 mg 5.68%
- Calcium: 18 mg 1.76%
- Potassium: 63 mg 1.8%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 1 mg 5.32%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 36 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g 4.28%
- Sugar: 26 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 18.91%
- Vitamin C 2.63%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat9
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs2
- Exchange - Starch0
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
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- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
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