INGREDIENTS
3
Wire cooling racks
4
Egg, large
1/2 cup
Frangelico hazelnut liqueur or hazelnut syrup such as torani
1/2 cup
Nutella hazelnut spread
1 3/4 cups
All-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp
Baking powder
1 1/2 tsp
Baking soda
5 oz
Bittersweet chocolate
2 1/4 cups
Granulated sugar
3/4 cup
Hershey's cocoa, Unsweetened
1 1/4 tsp
Kosher salt
1
Metal angled or offset icing spatula
1
Metal icing spatula
4 tsp
Vanilla, pure such as
1/2 cup
Hazelnut oil
1 1/4 cups
Hazelnuts
1
9-inch cardboard cake, round
1
Cake turntable
2
Insulated cake strips
1 1/2 tsp
Espresso granules, instant
2
Butter
1 cup
Buttermilk, organic
1/3 cup
Dairy sour cream
2 8 ounce packages
Philadelphia cream cheese, such as
1
Recipes chocolate-nutella cream cheese buttercream
10
Ferrero rocher chocolate-hazelnut candies
1/2 cup
Filtered or purified water
1
Wax paper
Two 9-inch by 1½- to 2-inch round cake pans
One 9-inch nonstick springform pan
Piping bag, coupler and no. 21 star decorating tip, not necessary if no piping is desired