Have always loved the taste of chocolate combined with coffee and liquor in cakes. This combination commonly found in desserts like Tiramisu and cappuccino cakes are almost always a big hit in our family. After all who can resist the taste of chocolate, coffee with an extra tinge of alcohol in it?
This cake is a simple Chocolate sponge added with roasted hazelnuts chopped coarsely. An addition of hazelnuts gave the cake a nutty fragrance with an extra crunchiness. As I had a bottle of Kahlua sitting in my liquor cabinet so I thought I would add a splash of it to the whipped cream. Trying to be health conscious (the cake was meant for family consumption), I spread only a thin layer of the kahlua cream on each layer. On hindsight, I definetely should have been more generous with the delicious cream. Lace the sides of the cake with generous coating of roasted almonds and top it off with cocoa powder.
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