Great-grandma`s Cognac Cake

Summary

Ingredients

• 330 g butter
• 8 egg (s), separated
• 500 g suar
• 2 packs vanilla sugar
• 1 lemon (s)
• 200 ml cognac
• 300 g hazelnuts or almonds, round
• 330 g flour
• 2 packs baking powder
• 4 teaspoons cocoa powder
• Fat for the shape
• possibly cake icing (chocolate icing) or
• powdered sugar

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Instructions

1. Mix butter, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla sugar, flour, hazelnuts, cognac and cocoa powder for approx. 10 minutes to form a smooth mixture. Squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the egg whites and beat until stiff, then fold into the batter.
2. Put the mixture in a large, buttered springform pan and bake at 125 ° C - 150 ° C for 1 - 1 1/4 hours.
3. The cake can be decorated with powdered sugar or chocolate icing, but it doesn`t have to, it tastes so delicious too.