Bittersweet Chocolate Torte With Apricot Filling
From mrsc543 14 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This decadent sounding cake is actually from Weight Watchers circa 1992!
Ingredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 6 large eggs shopping list
- 3/4 cup, minus 1 Tbsp, granulated sugar shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
- 1/2 cup plus 1 Tbsp sifted all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1/2 cup sifted unsweetened cocoa powder shopping list
- 1 tsp ground allspice shopping list
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon shopping list
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg shopping list
- frosting and Filling: shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups part-skim ricotta cheese shopping list
- 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder shopping list
- 2 Tbsp instant espresso powder shopping list
- 3 Tbsp granulated sugar shopping list
- 2 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
- 1/8 tsp salt shopping list
- 3/4 cup apricot all-fruit spread shopping list
- strawberries, for garnish (optional) shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to350 degrees.
- Spray two 8-inch round cake pans with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer set at high speed, beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla until thick and tripled in volume, about 7 minutes.
- In a medium, bowl, sift together the four, cocoa powder, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Using a large rubber spatula, quickly and gently fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture, until smooth.
- Divide the mixture between the two prepared pans.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake comes out clean, about 15 minutes.
- Cool completely in pans set on wire racks.
- to make the frosting, in a food processor or blender, process the ricotta, cocoa powder, espresso powder, sugar, vanilla, and salt until smooth.
- Cover and chill the frosting until ready to use.
- When the cake is cool, turn it out of the pans.
- With a long serrated knife, split each layer in half horizontally and spread the bottom half of each layer with half of the apricot spread.
- Carefully replace the top halves.
- Spread half of the frosting evenly over the top of one of the filled layers.
- Stack the second filled layer on top of the first.
- Swirl the remaining frosting evenly over the top of the cake.
- Garnish with whole strawberries, if desired.
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Wow! Hard to believe it's a WW recipe. Great post.
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