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Chocolate Espresso Torte
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over 5 hrs
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ingredients
2 cups butter
1 cup sugar PLUS"PLUS" means this ingredient in addition to the one on the next line, often with divided uses
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup hot espresso coffee PLUS"PLUS" means this ingredient in addition to the one on the next line, often with divided uses
2 tablespoons hot espresso coffee
16 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces
6 eggs, room temperature
6 egg yolks, room temperature
powdered sugar, optional
Chocolate Ganache Icing
8 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into pieces
1 cup whipping cream
directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Generously butter an 8- or 9-inch springform pan. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. Butter and flour the paper.
In a heavy saucepan, combine butter, sugar and espresso coffee. Cook over medium heat, until sugar dissolves. Add chocolate pieces and stir until smooth. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
In a large bowl, whisk eggs and yolks until frothy. Slowly whisk into chocolate mixture. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Place the pan on a baking sheet. Bake 1 hour or until edges puff and crack slightly but center is not completely set. Do not overbake. If you halve the recipe, use the same size pan, but cut baking time to about 40-45 minutes. Cake will continue to set as it cools.
Place pan on a rack to cool. Cover and refrigerate overnight. To remove from pan, run a knife around edge to loosen. Carefully release pan sides. Sift powdered sugar over cake or ice with Chocolate Ganache Icing.
Chocolate Ganache Icing:
In a heavy saucepan over very low heat, melt chocolate with cream until mixture is smooth and glassy. Place 1/2 mixture in a mixing bowl. Beat until thickened. Spread over torte as an undercoat.
Pour remaining ganache over torte and smooth.
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reviews & comments
October 16, 2009
This is exquisite--like an enormous chocolate-espresso truffle. I didn't have great luck making the ganache "undercoat" come out different than the "overcoat" but it was beautiful and delicious regardless. The expression on the faces of my wife and son when they took their first bite was as though they had been transported to a different realm. Yum!