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       Title: Chocolate Mousse Hazelnut Cake
  Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 10 servings
  
            Cake:
            Matzo cake meal; (for pan)
       3 oz Hazelnuts; toasted and
            Ground (1 cup)
     1/2 c  Matzo cake meal
       2 tb Potato starch
     1/4 ts Cinnamon
       8    Egg yolks; room temp
         c  Sugar
       2 ts Vanilla
       2    Egg whites; room temp
         ts Salt
     1/3 c  Sugar
            Mousse:
       8 oz Semisweet chocolate
     1/4 c  Strong coffee/freshly brewed
       4    Eggs; seperated; room temp
       1 tb Passover brandy
       2 tb Sugar
            Semisweet chocolate; shaved
  
   Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease bottom of a 10 inch
   springform pan. Dust with cake meal and shake off excess.
   Combine the hazelnuts, 1/2 cup cake meal, potato starch and
   cinnamon in a small bowl. With elecrtic mixer beat the
   eightegg yolks and 1/2 cup sugar until slowly dissolving
   ribbons form when the beaters are lifted. Blend in the
   vanilla . With clean beaters, beat the whites and salt in
   another bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1/3 cup
   sugar and beat until stiff but not dry. Fold 1/3 of the
   whites into the yolk mixture to lighten then fold it back
   into the whites. Sprinkle with the hazelnut mixture and
   fold gently. Turn the batter into the prepared pan
   spreading evenly. Bake until top is brown and tester comes
   out clean (about 20 min). Cool cake completely in the pan.
   Cake will deflate.
   
   For Mousse melt the chocolate with the coffee in a double
   boiled over gently simmering water; stir until smooth. Let
   cool. Beat the yolks into the chocolate 1 at a time. Blend
   in the brandy. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form.
   Gradually add the sugar and beat until stiff but nor dry.
   Gently fold the whites into the chocolate mixture. Spread
   the mousse onto the cooled cake. Cover and refrigerate
   until the mousse is firm. (several hours or overnight).
   Just before serving remove the springform pan and sprinkle
   the top with the shaved chocolate.
  
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