Preheat your oven to 180 C/gas 4
Grind your nuts coarsely.
Beat the eggs and sugar with electric mixer or by hand until you end up with a thick pale yellow cream. Add the slightly cooled , melted butter and the 3 tablespoons of cognac or brandy and beat well .
Now fold the nuts into the mixture.
Pour the mixture into a greased and floured spring form that is about 25-28 cm on diameter or a square spring form or baking tin of about fingerlength hight. Shake gently to level out .
Put into the preheated oven and bake for about 45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean and cake sounds hollow in tin when tapped underneath tin.
Make your syrup just before cake has finished baking .Mix the water and the sugar in a pot and simmer until sugar has dissolved , then add the cognac or brandy
Just after taking the cake out of the oven slowly and gently pour all the syrup over the cake so that the liquid seeps into the cake . Let the cake stand in the tin for at least 90 minutes .
When the cake has had its standing time transfer to a cake platter . It will be very moist and come out almost pudding like .
I serve this with fresh cream and make a little of extra cognac syrup made from 100 ml water 125 grams sugar and two spoons of brandy the same way as above and pour it over cake and cream.Decorate with the nuts.
