Chocolate Romance Truffle Torte Food

DECADENT CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE TORTE

Steps:

• Get your equipment ready (see tips below). Break the chocolate in small pieces into a large heatproof bowl. Spoon in the syrup and pour in about a quarter of the cream. Stand the bowl over (not in) a pan of hot water over the lowest possible heat and leave until the chocolate has melted, about 15-20 minutes. Remove the bowl from the pan and stir to combine. Leave until barely warm - dip your little finger in to check.
• Get your cake tin ready. Do this while you are waiting for the chocolate to melt and cool so you're not hanging around. Cut open the plastic folder along the bottom, then cut out a disc to fit in the bottom of the tin and 3 strips to line the sides. (See step 2).
• Pour the rest of the cream into a very large bowl and tip in the coffee and cinnamon. Whip with a balloon whisk until the cream looks like step 3. When you shake the bowl the cream should wobble like a thick milkshake, and when you dribble some cream from the whisk, the trail it leaves in the cream below should disappear in 1-2 seconds.
• Fold the two together. Pour the cooled chocolate into the bowl containing the cream. With the largest metal spoon you've got, fold the cream and chocolate together in a figure-of-eight motion. Don't be nervous - keep going until they are evenly and smoothly mixed and the mixture has a soft, pillowy, downy texture - you will see and feel it thicken as you fold.
• Set the torte. Pour the chocolatey cream into the tin and level the surface with the back of the spoon. Put the tin in the fridge and leave to firm up. This can happen in under an hour, but you may need to leave it longer, depending on the coldness of your fridge (you can leave it overnight if this is more convenient).
• Unmould and serve. Unclip and remove the side of the tin, then remove the pieces of plastic around the sides. Invert a serving plate over the torte and turn the torte upside down on to it. Lift off the tin base and peel away the plastic. Dust all over with cocoa (including the plate if you wish to be fashionable) and serve in thin slices.

TRUFFLE TORTE

Steps:

• Line a 23 cm cake tin, lined with silicone paper. Brush the sides and base lightly with groundnut oil.
• Sprinkle the crushed biscuits all over the base of the tin.
• Next break the chocolate into sections and put it in a heat proof bowl, with the liquid glucose and the rum. Fit the bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, then leave it until the chocolate has melted and become smooth. Stir, then take off the heat and leave the mixture to cool for five minutes or so until it feels just warm.
• In a separate bowl, beat the cream until only very slightly thickened.
• Fold half into the chocolate mixture and then fold that mixture into the rest of the cream. When it is smoothly blended, spoon it into the prepared tin.
• Tap the tin gently to even the mixture out, cover with clingfilm and chill overnight.
• Just before serving, run a palette knife round the edge to loosen the torte, then give it a good shake and turn the whole thing out on to a serving plate.
• To serve, dust the surface with sifted cocoa powder and, if you like, mark the top into serving sections. Serve with cream. If you like, add a couple of tablespoons of amaretti liqueur to the cream.

CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE TORTE

Steps:

• Toast pecans in oil until brown.
• Course grind tosted pecans.
• Combine pecans, graham cracker crumbs and butter and 2 tbsp sugar to make crust.
• Press crust mixture into the bottom and sides of a large torte pan or 9in sprinform pan.
• Bake crust at 350 deg F for 5 minute.
• In a small sauce pan combine chocolate chips and whipping cream.
• Stir over low heat until the chocolate has melted.
• In a large mixing bowl combine eggs, flour and 3/4 cup of sugar.
• Beat mixture 10 min or until mixture is thick.
• Fold in 1/4 of chocolate mixture to temper the egg mixture.
• Fold in remaining chocolate mixture.
• Pour mixture into crust.
• Bake at 350 deg F for 45 min or until it puffs up 1/2 way to the center.
• Cool for 4 hours before serving.

CHOCOLATE ROMANCE TRUFFLE TORTE

Steps:

• MAKE SHELL:.
• Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar on the bottom and sides of a well greased 8-inch loose bottomed flan pan or pie plate.
• Melt chocolate with water, vanilla and rum over hot water.
• Beat egg yolks until light add 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition until yolks are thick and lemon coloured.
• Blend in melted chocolate mixture.
• Beat egg whites with salt until stiff, shiny peaks form.
• Fold in chocolate mixture.
• Pour into prepared pie plate and bake for 25 minutes at 350°F until mixture is puffed and firm to the touch (do not overbake).
• Chill one hour.
• The mixture will fall and form a shell for the filling.
• MAKE FILLING:.
• Bring butter and coffee to a boil.
• Process the chocolate, sugar and salt in the food processor until very fine.
• Pour the hot butter mixture through the feed tube with the motor running.
• Add the egg yolks and brandy and process until thick and smooth.
• Cool to room temperature.
• Refrigerate 1/2 cup of the mixture until it is thick enough to pipe through a pastry tube Spread half the room temperature chocolate mixture on the cooled shell.
• Fold the whipped cream into the remaining chocolate mixture and spread over the first layer.
• Spoon the chilled chocolate mixture into a pastry bag and with a star tip, pipe a decorative edge just inside the edge of the shell.
• Refrigerate, uncovered until the filling is set, then cover and refrigerate for 4 hours or up to 2 days.
• May be frozen.