Toasted Hazelnut Birthday Cake | Community Recipes | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 200 grams golden caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 100 grams self-raising flour (sifted 3 times if you can bear it!)
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 200 grams butter (at room temperature)
• 200 grams hazelnuts (skinned and toasted)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons milk (warm)
• 100 grams butter
• 2 teaspoons cocoa
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 123 grams icing sugar
• 30 millilitres water
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup
• 75 grams caster sugar
• 80 grams dark chocolate