Périgord Honey-Walnut Cake

The cake as baked in a 16-cm (6-inch) charlotte mold, which gave a less-controlled, more unusual shape.

Most, possibly all the honey-and-walnut or -hazelnut cake recipes linked to Périgord, including the mutations online, descend from the hazelnut one in La Mazille’s 1929 La Bonne Cuisine du Périgord. Périgord is better known for walnuts than hazelnuts, …