Dark mocha torte
Dark mocha torte requires around 1 hour and 10 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 12. This dessert has 402 calories, 6g of protein, and 28g of fat per serving. For 82 cents per serving, this recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 11 person were glad they tried this recipe. A couple people really liked this Southern dish. A mixture of baking powder, whipping cream, dark chocolate, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. It is brought to you by BBC Good Food. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. With a spoonacular score of 26%, this dish is not so super. Deep Dark Mocha Torte, Healthy Mocha Donuts with Dark Chocolate Mocha Glaze, and Mocha Torte are very similar to this recipe.
Servings: 12
Preparation duration: 20 minutes
Cooking duration: 50 minutes
Ingredients:
½ tsp baking powder
140g unsalted butter, diced
50g cocoa powder
175g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
3 egg yolks
2 eggs plus 1 yolk, lightly beaten
100g golden caster sugar
85g ground toasted hazelnuts
50g icing sugar
175g plain flour
2 tbsp strong espresso coffee
crème fraîche or whipping cream, to serve
Equipment:
knife
baking paper
oven
microwave
skewers
bowl
frying pan
Cooking instruction summary:
first make the pastry. sift the flour, bakingpowder, cocoa powder and icing sugar into abowl. Rub in butter until crumbly. Quickly mixin the eggs until everything comes togetherwith the blade of a knife. Wrap in cling film.Chill for 30 mins. Roll out pastry and line a21cm fluted loose-bottom tart tin. Chill for20 mins. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.line the pastry case with parchment paper,fill with baking beans and bake blind for 15mins. Remove beans and cook for a further 5mins. Remove from oven and reducetemperature to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2.To make the filling, melt the chocolate in aheatproof bowl over a pan of simmeringwater or in the microwave on High for 1-2mins, then cool. Beat the butter and sugartogether until pale and fluffy, then graduallybeat in the eggs, yolk, nuts and flour. Fold inthe chocolate and coffee, pour into the caseand bake for 25-30 mins, until crumbs cling toan inserted skewer (the middle of the torte won't have set completely; it will continue to firm up out of the oven). Serve cut into thin slices, topped with crème fraîche or cream.
Step by step:
1. first make the pastry. sift the flour, bakingpowder, cocoa powder and icing sugar into abowl. Rub in butter until crumbly. Quickly mixin the eggs until everything comes togetherwith the blade of a knife. Wrap in cling film.Chill for 30 mins.
2. Roll out pastry and line a21cm fluted loose-bottom tart tin. Chill for20 mins.
3. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.line the pastry case with parchment paper,fill with baking beans and bake blind for 15mins.
4. Remove beans and cook for a further 5mins.
5. Remove from oven and reducetemperature to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2.To make the filling, melt the chocolate in aheatproof bowl over a pan of simmeringwater or in the microwave on High for 1-2mins, then cool. Beat the butter and sugartogether until pale and fluffy, then graduallybeat in the eggs, yolk, nuts and flour. Fold inthe chocolate and coffee, pour into the caseand bake for 25-30 mins, until crumbs cling toan inserted skewer (the middle of the torte won't have set completely; it will continue to firm up out of the oven).
6. Serve cut into thin slices, topped with crème fraîche or cream.
Nutrition Information:
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