CHOCOLATE RIDICULOUS Flourless Chocolate Torte

By ldelmas

Yields- 14 orders
Shelf life- 5 days

Yields- 2 cakes

Ingredients

• 3/4 lb. Unsalted butter
• 3.25 lb. Semi- sweet chocolate
• 12 Egg whites
• 12 Egg yolks
• 1 cup Granulated sugar
• 10 inch Pie pan
• Step 1
• Pre heat oven to 350 degrees
• Step 2
• Spray cake pan or spring form with non- stick and hold
• Step 3
• In bain-marie heat chocolate and butter until well mixed and melted
• Remove from heat, whisk in egg yolks and let cool
• Step 4
• Whisk sugar and eggs together until medium peaks are achieved.
• Next, in mixing bowl, fold egg/ sugar mixture into chocolate and pour into pan.
• Step 5
• Bake in oven with a water bath for 30 - 40 minutes or until set. Cool and serve
• Ganache
• 8 oz. Heavy cream
• 10 oz. Semi sweet or dark chocolate chunks
• Method
• In saucepan, over medium heat, bring cream to a heavy simmer, remove from heat
• After removing from heat, transfer to small mixing bowl and stir either type of chocolate in cream. Stir until chocolate is totally dissolved and hold in reserve until use for icing
• Cookie Crust
• Shopping List
• 2 cups Chocolate cream cookies- crushed
• 1/2 cup Clarified* butter
• Crush cookies in food processor until fine grains of cookies, then
• In bowl add crushed cookies and 1/4 cup butter and mix into cookies. Then slowly add remaining butter, ensuring that mix does not become too wet. Crust should not release butter when squeezed in hand. Build flat crust on spring form or cake plate bottom.
• Hold for layering
• Devil's Food and Brownie Cake
• Shopping List
• Box Recipe
• 1 round cake- each
• Chocolate Cream Cheese
• Shopping List
• 3 lbs. Cream Cheese- Softened
• 2 cups Chocolate Ganache- cooled

Preparation

Step 1

Method
In mixer with whisk attachment, blend cream cheese and chocolate until well mixed, scrap sides and re-peat, remove from bowl and hold for assembly.

Construction
First build the Oreo base and place in freezer for 20 minutes to stiffen base. Next add 1 1/2 cup cream cheese to base and spread evenly then top with baked Devil's Food Cake, then again add cream cheese. For next layer add fudge cake then another layer of icing then finish with torte layer. Finally ice whole exterior of cake with remaining cream cheese and again cool for 20 minutes. After cooling ice cake with prepared ganache, keeping 1/2 cup ganache in reserve.