Tiroler Cake

Ingredients

• 125 g butter
• 125 g sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 tablespoon vanilla sugar (or a little vanilla essence)
• 150 ml milk
• 250 g flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 80 g hazelnuts, processed to make fine crumbs
• 80 g dark chocolate

Directions

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and salt, beat until you have a pale mass.

2. 2

   Add the vanilla sugar and the milk.

3. 3

   While stirring add the flour, the baking powder and the nut crumbs.

4. 4

   Cut the chocolate into small pieces and mix in (I pulse briefly in a food processor).

5. 5

   If you use a cake tin of 25 cm you have to bake it for about 45 minutes on 180°C A shorter pan will make a taller loaf.