Hazelnut Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce
An aromatic buttery cake made with a rich nut mixture of blanched hazelnut is topped with a sea of deep amber sea salt caramel sauce. This simple Hazelnut cake with Salted Caramel Sauce is the perfect sweet and salty dessert!
Hi friends! I hope you are ready for a special treat. This hazelnut cake with salted caramel sauce is one of my recent favorites. A delightful wonder that is quite easy to whip up too. Think of a soft butter cake with nutty hazelnut flavor and the sweet and salty balance of salted caramel in each bite. Delightful!!
I think I have said this several times but it’s only because it’s so true. One of the great things about blogging is the community you meet, get to know, and people you develop a relationship with. I’ve been really fortunate to make friends that are supportive, encouraging, and just inspiring every day.
Just last week, I received a care package from my friend Renee over at Tortillas and Honey that was the most heartwarming present I have received in a while. She sent me a New Mexico-themed package complete with two types of chiles, NM state cookies, tea, and her family’s recipes and directions on how to work the chiles. Freaking AMAZING!!! (Thank you, dear)
So when one of my friends reached out for some help while she was away on vacation, I raced upon the opportunity! I made this special hazelnut cake with salted caramel sauce for Julie’s readers. Julie is a great friend and mentor that has welcomed me into her blogging community.
Head on over to her blog, This Gal Cooks for the full hazelnut cake with salted caramel sauce.
This hazelnut cake with salted caramel sauce is a buttery rich nut flavored cake that is topped with a deep amber sea salt caramel sauce to give you the perfect sweet and salty treat!
Friends are the best. Make them cake 🙂
Hazelnut Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
FOR THE CAKE
- ½ cup blanched hazelnuts
- 1 cup granulated sugar, divided
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
FOR SALTED CARAMEL SAUCE
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- ¾ cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- ½ tablespoon flaky sea salt
Instructions
FOR THE CAKE:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and line an 8-inch baking pan with a parchment circle. Grease parchment.
- In a bowl of a food processor, finely process hazelnuts with 1 tablespoon granulated sugar. Set aside 2 tablespoons of nut mixture.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the remaining nut mixture, flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter with the remaining sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes on medium speed. Add in eggs, one at a time, beating to blend after each addition and scraping down the side of the bowl as needed.
- Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients in two additions. Mix until combined.
- Spoon batter into prepared pan and sprinkle the reserved nut mixture over batter. Sprinkle granulated sugar as well.
- Bake until golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 30-35 minutes. Transfer cake to a cooling rack and let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out. Let cool completely.
TO MAKE SALTED CARAMEL SAUCE
- In a medium saucepan, bring to boil over medium-high heat two tablespoons water, granulated sugar, and corn syrup, stirring constantly to dissolve sugar.
- Once boiling, leave for 8-10 minutes until the mixture turns deep amber in color, swirling pan occasionally. Remove from heat and slowly add the heavy cream to the mixture. The mixture will bubble vigorously.
- Return to medium heat and stir occasionally until smooth, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in butter and sea salt.
- Let sauce cool before serving with cake.
Notes
Adapted from Bon Appetit Magazine
Wow this cake looks so soft, spongy and the caramel looks so fantastic!
Thanks dear!
The best part of blogging is definitely the friendships. Though all the cake recipes don’t hurt either! Definitely off to check this out….you had me at salted caramel. And hazelnut. And cake.
Hhaha the cake really helps 🙂
This caramel sauce has me drooling! Heading over now to see the recipe!!
Thanks Renee!!
I have made some amazing friends blogging.
Love the wonderful friendships from the blogging community 🙂 Drooled over this at Julie’s site yesterday and love that I get to drool over at it here too. This cake looks stunning Zainab, love all that salted caramel sauce! Pinning 🙂
Thanks for sharing Kelly!! I am so glad to call you a friend 🙂
Ummm…this looks amazing, Zainab. I need it in my mailbox. Yesterday. 🙂
Hahhah thanks David!!
Salted caramel sauce??? Can I just pour it right into my mouth? YUM!
That is totally what I did!!
This looks amazing, Zainab! Loving that lush, rich caramel sauce! 🙂
Thanks Jess!!
That’s one of my favorite parts of blogging, too, the community. And staring at pictures of salted caramel-topped cake. I love that part, too. 🙂
Hahhah pictures of cake makes blogging amazing!!!
This cake looks awesome, Zainab! I am still working on getting into the blogging community, but I know what you mean! It’s nice to have lots of support. 🙂
Thank you Beth!! Ps: sent you a Facebook message!
Oh Zainab this looks fantastic! 😀 I have to try the salted caramel…I’ve never made my own but it just looks and sounds irresistible! 😀
Toodles,
Tammy<3
Tammy, you have to!! Salted caramel sauce is just soooooo good!!
Oh my gosh look at that oozing salted caramel! Great pictures too.
Oh my goodness, that caramel! Looks beautiful on this lovely fluffy cake, but I bet it would be amazing on all sorts of other things too, like baked bananas or even ice cream. Yum!
It has been awesome getting to know you, and you are so right. The community that you form as a blogger is absolutely incredible. Nothing like it and the funny thing is sometimes you have never even met those people in person!
Totally going to check out this recipe cuz seriously… HOLY FREAKIN YUM!!! But then again, should I expect anything less? Nope, I think not, not from you!
Thanks Krista! I totally agree…you form such great friendships with amazing people you have not even met. My husband is still getting used to it lol!
Oh my goodness – hazelnut cake? Am I dreaming? I love reading about you tag teaming with Julie and then this package – gives me the warm fuzzies 🙂 This cake looks delicious! What a perfect use of that caramel!
Thanks Mary Frances! Hope you are having a great weekend.
You had me at salted caramel! I will definitely check out the recipe.
Thanks Natasha!
I love having YOU for a blogging friend! can I please drink that caramel sauce?
Alex me too!! I’m so glad we are friends 🙂 And yes please let’s drink this sauce. It’s so great!
Zainab, the cake looks amazing! It’s been really fun getting to know you and glad we are all part of our little blogging group! If come to the MOA, let me know and we can meet up 🙂
Thanks Deb! I’ve been so happy you guys welcomed me 🙂 And of course I’ll let you know next time I’m in MN!
STOP! This is amazing! Hazlenut and caramel?! You’re killing me. Gotta see more. Heading to Julie’s.
STOP! This is amazing! Hazelnut and caramel?! You’re killing me. Gotta see more. Heading to Julie’s.
Hahah thanks Connie! How can I stop when it’s so good?? Lol! Hope you are having a great day.
Blogging friends helps make blogging so special! I’m so happy you liked your package! This cake and caramel sauce look amazing, I could definitely face plant into that! 😉
You do making blogging special!! Thanks 🙂
My eyes are like saucers right now. HAVE to get this recipe. Ooooh that caramel….oooooh hazelnut cake….oooooooh!!!
Going to check out Julie’s site now because I NEED this recipe! This cake looks amazing. Pinning! And you are so cute – I’m so happy I have met you through blogging!
Cate thanks! Julie has a great blog…hope you like it! And I am so happy to have met you too 🙂
This looks delicious! I love hazelnut and chocolate combos.
Thanks Melissa!
I love your recipes. I think I’ve pinned all of your salted caramel recipes and this one is being happily added to the collection, especially since you’ve paired it with another of my favorite flavors–hazelnut! Visiting you this week from the SITS Share Fest, but always a fan.
Corrine, I’m so glad you are a lover of salted caramel too!! I seriously can eat that sauce right out of the bowl. Thank tou so much for being a fan of my recipes! Let me know when you try anything. Id love to know how they turn out! Have a great weekend 🙂
Can’t wait to try this!
I saw this recipe on Julie’s site this morning. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. It looks wonderful!
Thanks Laura!! PS: Juts voted 🙂
This looks so delicious! I love how soft the cake looks, and the caramel sauce is to die for!
Thanks Jessica!
I am soooooo here for anything with caramel on it. YUMMMMY!
I love anything with hazelnuts. This cake looks like a real treat!
I think I would make this cake for the sauce alone. This looks so freaking good!
I knew I shouldn’t have came to your blog at 1 am; now I’m craving this cake now lol!! It looks amazing!
Ooooooh the texture of your cake looks perfect and I’m dying for a taste of that salted caramel sauce! Heading over to read the guest post right now.
This looks so beautiful; I’m heading over to check out the recipe right away!
That salted caramel sauce looks divine!! Really the whole cake looks divine!! 🙂 Yum!
Thanks Jocelyn!!
Great minds think alike Zainab! This looks delicious, I could so easily dip my finger into that thick, luscious sauce hmmmm!
I love the salty-sweet combo here….and the cake looks so moist and delicious! Yummm!!
Thank you very much Cathy!!
This looks delicious! I love anything with caramel. Thank you for linking to the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. Hope to see you next time.