CHOCOLATE TORTE

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Categories     Cake     Dessert     Bake

Yield 8 Servings

Number Of Ingredients 26

Nut Crust For Torte
2 cups flour
1 stick butter
2 handfuls chopped walnuts
Cream Cheese Filling For Nut Crust Torte
8 ounces cream cheese
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups fresh whipped cream
Basic Chocolate Pudding
3 cups milk
2 squares bittersweet chocolate
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons cornstarch
dash salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Fresh Whipped Cream
1 cup fresh cream or whipping cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 squirt vanilla extract
1 batch Basic Chocolate Pudding
Chocolate Torte
1 Nut Crust For Torte
1 batch Cream Cheese Filling For Nut Crust Torte
1 batch Basic Chocolate Pudding
1 batch Fresh Whipped Cream

Steps:

  • 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Dump the ingredients into a bowl, and using your fingers mix until crumbly. 2. Press into the bottom of the cake pan, and bake about 20 minutes, until lightly brown and the crust has little crooked cracks running through like a creek. Cream Cheese Filling For Nut Crust Torte 1. Combine the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl, and beat on high speed until well blended and smooth. Basic Chocolate Pudding 1. Pour the milk into a heavy large saucepan, add the chocolate, and heat until the chocolate melts. 2. In a small bowl, combine the sugar, flour, cornstarch, and salt, and mix, using your fingers. 3. Gradually add this to the hot milk mixture, and stir constantly using a whisk. Cook on medium heat about 5 minutes, until thick and smooth. 4. Mix in the vanilla, stir, and remove from heat. Fresh Whipped Cream 1. Pour a cup of fresh cream into a bowl and using an electric mixer, beat on high speed until thick. (Don't go too far or you'll end up with butter.) 2. Turn the mixer on low, and gradually fold in the sugar and vanilla. Beat until the cream is fluffy and can stand in soft peaks. (Do not overbeat.) Chocolate Torte 1. Prepare a Nut Crust and the Cream Cheese Filling. Spread 1 batch of Basic Chocolate Pudding on top of the Cream Cheese Filling. and top with Fresh Whipped Cream and a few sprinkles of grated chocolate bar or choclate chips.

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