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Val's hungarian chocolate walnut cake

Val's hungarian chocolate walnut cake

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For as long as I can remember, my mom, Valerie, has made this flourless cake--for birthdays, holidays, dinner parties, picnics. As a child, I was often recruited to grind the walnuts in a Mouli hand grinder, panting with the effort. But it was worth it! <br />Most times, she would serve it dusted with confectioner's sugar and accompanied with berries and a puff of schlag (whipped cream), or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. For very special times, she would make the Walnut buttercream frosting, but that's really gilding the lily; the cake is just as fabulous without it. <br />Unlike most flourless cakes, it's texture is light, a cousin to angel food cake (it's baked in an angel food tin); make the frosting with margarine (or go without) and the cake is appropriate for Passover. <br />The photo is a snapshot taken of the endpaper of one of my grandmother's cookbooks; I'd recognize her handwriting anywhere. It's half-English, half-Hungarian...so she must have made this cake as well.

Oct. 1, 2021, 11:50 a.m.