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Chocolate Walnut Torte Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Turn an 8 inch round cake pan upside down and cut a piece of wax paper to fit the bottom of the pan.
  • Grease bottom of the cake pan, then line with the waxed paper.
  • Sift together flour, the 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder and salt into your mixer bowl.
  • Make a well in the center of your dry ingredients and pour the oil, milk and vanilla into the well.
  • Beat on low spead only until smooth.
  • Fold in the grated chocolate and the chopped walnuts.
  • Now you need another bowl and a clean beater. If you are like me and only have one bowl for your mixer, scrape batter into a large bowl and set aside. Wash your mixer bowl thoroughly, leaving no trace of grease.
  • In your clean bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar to the stiff peak stage.
  • Beat in the 3 Tbsp of sugar gradually, until the egg whites form still glossy peaks.
  • Fold (DO NOT STIR) egg whites gently into the cake batter, then turn into your prepared pan.
  • Bake in a preheated 350 oven until cake tester inserted near center comes out clean, approximately 35 to 40 minutes.
  • Turn cake out onto a wire rack and carefully remove wax paper.
  • Carefully lay another rack over the cake and turn right side up to cool.
  • While cake is cooling, begin preparing your frosting. Put the chocolate and water in a 1 quart saucepan and melt over very low direct heat, or put it in a small double-boiler top and melt over hot (not boiling) water. (Nowadays you could use your microwave)
  • Cool.
  • Cream butter throughly and set aside.
  • In mixer bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored.
  • Bring corn syrup to a full boil in a small saucepan (or your microwave, CAREFULLY). Pour slowly over the eggs yolks while you beat constantly. Beat until very thick and pale lemon color, then allow mixture to get cold.
  • When mixture is cold, add creamed butter and beat until completely combined and smooth.
  • Add cooled melted chocolate and beat to blend. Set aside, hopefully your cake is cool by now.
  • When cake is completely cool, whip your cream if you are whipping your own.
  • Carefully split the cake in half to make two layers.
  • Fill with whipped cream.
  • Frost top and sides with chocolate buttercream frosting.

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    " It was excellent "
    bluewaterandsand ate it and said...
    Yummy, sounds heavenly!
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    " It was excellent "
    fluffy24 ate it and said...
    Love it. Thanks!
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