Chocolate Blackout Cake - Colavita Recipes

Ingredients

• Cake:
• ½ cup Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 cup hazelnuts or 1/2 cup ground hazelnuts (1.8 oz)
• 2 tbsp potato starch
• ½ cup sugar
• 7 oz Perugina Bittersweet Chocolate 70%
• ¼ tsp kosher salt
• 4 large eggs, separated, at room temperature
• Vanilla essence from 1 scraped vanilla bean or 2 tsp extract
• Bittersweet Chocolate Glaze:
• 5 oz Perugina Bittersweet Chocolate 70%, melted
• 3 tbsp wine (sparkling or red) or water, heated to a simmer
• Shaved Chocolate:
• 1 bar Perugina Bittersweet Chocolate 70%