Chocolate-Hazelnut Cake

Name: Chocolate-Hazelnut Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened, plus additional butter for the pan; 6 ounces (170 grams), semisweet or bittersweet chocolate; 1 1/3 cups, hazelnuts, toasted, skinned, and toasted again; 1 cup (7 ounces/198 grams), sugar; 2 tablespoons, unbleached all-purpose flour; 5 , large eggs, separated, plus 1 large yolk; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; , Confectioners' sugar

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The Italian love affair with the combination of chocolate and hazelnuts runs so deep that the duo has a name: gianduja.

SERVES 8

TIME 1½ hours, plus 3 hours cooling

Italian Name: Torta gianduia

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