Gianduia Torte With Chocolate Glaze Food

CHOCOLATE STOUT TORTA

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line the bottom with parchment. Butter the parchment as well.
• In a small saucepan, heat the butter and stout over medium heat until the butter is melted. Set aside to cool slightly.
• Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk together the sugar, yogurt, cocoa powder, vanilla, salt and eggs until smooth. Pour in the stout mixture and whisk again until fully incorporated. Add the almond flour, oat flour and baking soda and fold with a spatula to combine. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with just a few crumbs, about 1 hour. Allow to cool completely.
• For the whipped cream: In a medium bowl, use a handheld mixer on medium speed to beat the heavy cream, sugar and whiskey to soft peaks, about 1 minute. Serve the cake dolloped with the whiskey whipped cream.

PASSOVER CHOCOLATE TORTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line bottom and sides of a 9 inch springform pan with foil. Grease foil.
• Melt margarine and chocolate over low heat. Stir until smooth and let cool.
• In a medium-size mixing bowl, beat whites until stiff; about 2 minutes. In a separate bowl, beat together yolks and sugar until thick and pale; about 1 minute. Blend in chocolate mixture and stir in almonds. Fold in beaten whites, 1/3 at a time, into chocolate until no streaks of white remain. Scrape into prepared pan.
• Place an 8 inch baking pan with 1 inch of water in it on the bottom rack of the oven (to make the torte more moist).
• Bake torte on center rack at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes, or until sides begin to pull away from pan and top is set in center. Cover the torte loosely with foil for the last 20 minutes of baking. Note: Don't worry if the cake cracks because the top will be on the bottom later.
• Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes and then carefully remove sides of pan. Invert onto a serving plate and cool completely.

TORTA ALLA GIANDUIA (CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350-degrees.
• Prepare a 9-inch springform pan: grease and line with parchment or wax paper.
• In a large bowl, whisk the eggs whites and salt until stiff but not dry (this means that they will hold their peaks, yet still appear glossy and smooth).
• In a separate bowl, beat the butter and Nutella together, then add Frangelico (or what you have chosen to use), egg yolks, and ground hazelnuts.
• Fold in the cooled, melted chocolate, then lighten the mixture with a dollop of egg white, which you can beat in as roughly as you want, before gently folding the rest of them in a third at a time.
• Pour into the prepared pan and cook for 40 minutes or until the cake's beginning to come away at the sides, then let cool on rack.
• Toast the hazelnuts in a dry frying pan until the aroma wafts upward and the nuts are golden brown in parts: keep shaking the pan so they don't burn on one side and stay too pallid on others.
• Transfer to a plate and let cool.
• This is imperative: if they go on the ganache while hot, it'll turn oily (believe me I speak from experience).
• In a heavy-bottomed sauce pan, add the cream, liquer or water, and chopped chocolate and heat gently.
• Once the chocolate's melted, take the pan off the heat and whisk until it reaches the right consistency to ice just the top of the cake.
• Unmold the cooled cake carefully, leaving it on the base as it will be too difficult to get such a damp cake off in one piece.
• Ice the top with the chocolate icing, and dot thickly with the whole, toasted hazelnuts.
• If you have used Frangelico, put shot glasses on the table and serve it with the cake.

CHOCOLATE GLAZE FOR GIANDUJA ROULADE

Steps:

• Place chocolate in a heat-proof bowl. Place honey and heavy cream in a saucepan; stir to combine. Bring cream mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Pour over chocolate, and let sit 2 minutes. Whisk until smooth. Cover with plastic; store at room temperature until ready to use.

GIANDUIA TORTE WITH CHOCOLATE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 8-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper. Butter parchment. Wrap outside of pan with foil. Finely grind hazelnuts in processor. Stir chocolate and butter in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until smooth. Cool chocolate mixture to room temperature.
• Using electric mixer, beat yolks and sugar in large bowl until thick and pale yellow, about 5 minutes. Fold in cooled chocolate mixture, then hazelnuts. Transfer batter to prepared pan. Smooth top.
• Bake until cake is set and appears dry but tester comes out with very moist crumbs attached, about 45 minutes. Transfer to rack. Lightly press down any raised edges of cake. Cool completely. Run small knife around sides of pan to loosen cake. Remove pan sides. Invert cake onto platter. Remove pan bottom. Peel off parchment. Slide waxed paper strips under cake to protect platter.
• Using icing spatula, spread thin coating of Chocolate Glaze over top and sides of cake. Rewarm remaining glaze over low heat if necessary. Pour glaze in pool over center of cake; spread over top and sides. Remove waxed paper strips. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome and refrigerate. Let stand 1 hour at room temperature before serving.)

CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY TORTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line bottoms of 2 greased 9-in. round baking pans with parchment; grease paper., In a microwave, melt chocolate and butter; stir until smooth. Cool. Transfer to a large bowl; beat in sugar until blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to chocolate mixture alternately with water, beating well after each addition., Transfer batter to prepared pans. Bake 28-33 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove paper. Cool completely., In a large bowl, combine filling ingredients; set aside. For glaze, in a microwave, melt chocolate and butter; stir until smooth. Stir in confectioners' sugar, water and vanilla until smooth. Cool slightly., Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Spread with half of each of the following: whipped topping and strawberry filling. Drizzle with half of the glaze. Repeat layers. Store in the refrigerator.

GLAZED HAZELNUT CHOCOLATE TORTE

Steps:

• ---Forthe Torte---.
• Place buttered and floured parchment paper (or waxed) on the bottom and sides of a round 9" cake pan; shake out any excess flour.
• Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Melt 3 oz chocolate in the water over low heat, stirring& cool.
• Beat 5 eggs until very frothy and light, gradually add the cup of sugar, beating all the while until the mixture is very thick.
• Slowly stir (not beat) in half of the flour, then the chocolate and then the remaining flour, hazelnuts,& vanilla extract.
• Pour into the prepared pan and bake for approx 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the middle of the cake.
• Cool for a few minutes and turn out onto a rack, gently remove the paper.
• When fully cooled cut the torte through the center so you have two layers.
• ---Forthe Buttercream Filling---.
• In your blender or food processor blend the 2 egg yolks, add 2 tbsp sugar, two tsp Frangelica and blend until very smooth.
• Gradually add small bits of butter and blend until the butter is totally incorporated.
• Chill the butter cream until it has a consistency that will spread easily (about 1 hour).
• ---Forthe Glaze---.
• You must time making the glaze so it coincides with the chilling of the cake because you want to put on the glaze while it is hot.
• Mix together the cocoa, cream, butter,& confectioner's sugar in a saucepan; use low heat and stir until chocolate is melted and everything is combined; remove from heat (apprx 7 minutes), then stir in the liqueur.
• ---Assemblingthe Torte---.
• Spread the butter cream on the bottom layer, place on the top layer cover and chill for 1 hour in the fridge.
• When the torte has chilled, using an oiled spatula spread the hot glaze over the top and sides of the torte.

CHOCOLATE GLAZE

Steps:

• Bring cream and corn syrup to boil in heavy medium saucepan. Reduce heat to low. Add chocolate; whisk until smooth. Remove from heat. Let cool until glaze thickens slightly but can still be poured, about 25 minutes.