Chocolate Cinnamon Torte Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Line three 9 inch cake pans with parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat 1-1/2 cups butter with 1-1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the flour and cinnamon. Stir this mixture into the butter/sugar mixture with a wooden spoon.
• Divide dough into 8-9 equal portions.
• Spread one portion in each pan.
• Bake for 8-12 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool the cookies in pans on racks. Remove from pans, reline pans with parchment and repeat with remaining 6 portions of dough.
• When all cookies are baked and cooling, prepare filling.
• Filling:.
• In a large bowl whip the cream until stiff. Sift cocoa and fold into cream.
• In another bowl stir together sugar and sour cream until sugar dissolves. Stir in grated semi-sweet chocolate.
• Fold sour cream mixture into whipped cream mixture.
• To assemble:.
• Arrange one cookie on a cake plate; spread with about 1/9 of filling. Keep layering cookies and filling finishing with filling. Garnish with a pile of chocolate curls.
• To freeze: Freeze on a cardboard cake circle you can purchase at a baking supply store. Layer as above and then insert a few toothpicks in the top to hold the plastic wrap off the top of the torte.
• Wrap in plastic and then in foil. Label and freezer for up to 2 months.
• To serve:.
• Thaw on counter for 1 hour before serving. Unwrap, remove toothpicks and garnish with the chocolate curls.
• To make chocolate curls: Run a vegetable peeler over a brick of chocolate and pieces will "curl" off the peeler.

Steps:

• 1 Grease as many 9" layer cake pans as you have. Or you can line with parchment paper. preheat oven to 375. With a mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. add eggs one at a time while mixer is on. Add flour and cinnamon a little at a time mixing well. Let rest 15 minutes. Divide dough into 15 portions and pat one portion at a time into cake pan. It will be very thin but this is what makes your layers. Bake for 8-12 min or until it starts to brown on the edges. Dump out of the cake pan and do again until all layers are made. At this point you can wrap and store these cookie layers until you are ready to use them. The torte is self do not take long to assemble. Whip the cream, vanilla and icing sugar together until stiff. Set about 1 1/2 cup aside for decorating the top of the Torte. Place a small amount of whip cream on the bottom of the cake plate ( this is to anchor or cookie) and place your first cookie on it. Spread with Cream and continue doing this until all cookies and cream are gone. Put the remaining whipped cream into a piping bag and do 8 rosettes of whip cream on the top on the Torte. 12lace a cherry on top of each rosette and sprinkler with chocolate curls. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

Steps:

• Grease as many 9" layer cake pans as you have. Or you can line with parchment paper.
• preheat oven to 375.
• With a mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. add eggs one at a time while mixer is on. Add flour and cinnamon a little at a time mixing well.
• Let rest 15 minutes.
• Divide dough into 15 portions and pat one portion at a time into cake pan. It will be very thin but this is what makes your layers.
• Bake for 8-12 min or until it starts to brown on the edges. Dump out of the cake pan and do again until all layers are made.
• At this point you can wrap and store these cookie layers until you are ready to use them. The torte is self do not take long to assemble.
• Whip the cream, vanilla and icing sugar together until stiff.
• Set about 1 1/2 cup aside for decorating the top of the Torte.
• Place a small amount of whip cream on the bottom of the cake plate ( this is to anchor or cookie) and place your first cookie on it. Spread with Cream and continue doing this until all cookies and cream are gone.
• Put the remaining whipped cream into a piping bag and do 8 rosettes of whip cream on the top on the Torte.
• Place a cherry on top of each rosette and sprinkler with chocolate curls.
• Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

Steps:

• Get your equipment ready (see tips below). Break the chocolate in small pieces into a large heatproof bowl. Spoon in the syrup and pour in about a quarter of the cream. Stand the bowl over (not in) a pan of hot water over the lowest possible heat and leave until the chocolate has melted, about 15-20 minutes. Remove the bowl from the pan and stir to combine. Leave until barely warm - dip your little finger in to check.
• Get your cake tin ready. Do this while you are waiting for the chocolate to melt and cool so you're not hanging around. Cut open the plastic folder along the bottom, then cut out a disc to fit in the bottom of the tin and 3 strips to line the sides. (See step 2).
• Pour the rest of the cream into a very large bowl and tip in the coffee and cinnamon. Whip with a balloon whisk until the cream looks like step 3. When you shake the bowl the cream should wobble like a thick milkshake, and when you dribble some cream from the whisk, the trail it leaves in the cream below should disappear in 1-2 seconds.
• Fold the two together. Pour the cooled chocolate into the bowl containing the cream. With the largest metal spoon you've got, fold the cream and chocolate together in a figure-of-eight motion. Don't be nervous - keep going until they are evenly and smoothly mixed and the mixture has a soft, pillowy, downy texture - you will see and feel it thicken as you fold.
• Set the torte. Pour the chocolatey cream into the tin and level the surface with the back of the spoon. Put the tin in the fridge and leave to firm up. This can happen in under an hour, but you may need to leave it longer, depending on the coldness of your fridge (you can leave it overnight if this is more convenient).
• Unmould and serve. Unclip and remove the side of the tin, then remove the pieces of plastic around the sides. Invert a serving plate over the torte and turn the torte upside down on to it. Lift off the tin base and peel away the plastic. Dust all over with cocoa (including the plate if you wish to be fashionable) and serve in thin slices.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F. Butter an 8 1/2-inch springform pan and line it with a round of wax paper. Butter the paper and dust the pan with flour, knocking out the excess. In a food processor blend together the almonds, the brown sugar, the cinnamon, and the salt until the almonds are ground fine, add the chocolate, and blend the mixture until the chocolate is ground fine. Add the egg yolks and the vanilla, blend the mixture until it is combined well (it will be very thick), and transfer it to a bowl. In another bowl with an electric mixture beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until they hold soft peaks, beat in the granulated sugar gradually, and beat the meringue until it just holds stiff peaks. Whisk about one third of the meringue into the chocolate mixture to lighten it and fold in the remaining meringue gently but thoroughly. Pour the batter into the pan, smoothing the top, and bake the torte in the middle of the oven for 45 to 55 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Let the torte cool in the pan on a rack for 5 minutes, run a thin knife around the edge, and remove the side of the pan. Invert the torte onto the rack, discarding the wax paper, and let it cool.
• Make the glaze:
• In a metal bowl set over barely simmering water combine the chocolate, the butter, the cream, and the corn syrup, stir the mixture until it is smooth, and let the glaze cool until it is just lukewarm.
• Set the torte on the rack over wax paper and pour the glaze over it, smoothing the glaze with a spatula and letting the excess drip down the side.
• Make the icing:
• In a bowl whisk together the confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon of the milk and add enough of the remaining milk, drop by drop, to form a thick icing.
• Transfer the icing to a small pastry bag fitted with a 1/8-inch plain tip and pipe it decoratively on the torte. Transfer the torte to a serving plate and let it stand for 2 hours, or until the glaze is set.

Steps:

• Set a rack in the center of the oven. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch glass pie plate. Dust it with bread crumbs or cocoa powder. Set aside.
• Place the chopped chocolate in the top of a small double boiler over water over low heat. Bring it to a low simmer. Meanwhile, in a cup or small bowl, dissolve the coffee in the 1/4 cup boiling water and pour it over the chocolate. Cover and cook over low heat, whisking occasionally, until the chocolate is almost melted. Remove from heat and continue to stir until smooth. Let cool slightly. (Alternatively, place chocolate in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Dissolve the coffee in the boiling water and pour it over the chocolate. Cover with a plate or kitchen towel and let stand for 5 minutes. Vigorously whisk until the chocolate is melted and smooth. If there are still bits of unmelted chocolate, microwave in 15-second bursts, whisking between, until smooth and fully melted.)
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the yolks at high speed until they are pale, thick and lemon-colored, about 5 minutes. Gradually add the granulated sugar and continue to beat at high speed for 5 minutes more until very thick. Reduce speed to low, and add the vanilla and cooled chocolate, scraping the sides of the mixing bowl as necessary. Transfer mixture to a medium bowl. Wash the whisk attachment and mixing bowl.
• In the mixing bowl of the electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff but not dry. Gradually, in two or three small additions, gently fold half the egg whites into the chocolate, then fold the chocolate mixture into the remaining whites just until no whites show. Handling as little as possible, gently reserve about 4 cups of the mousse in a separate medium bowl; cover and refrigerate.
• Transfer the rest of the mousse into the pie plate; it will barely reach the top. Gently level and bake for 25 minutes. Turn off the heat, then leave it in the oven for 5 minutes more. Remove from oven and cool on a rack. (The mousse will rise during baking and then, while cooling, it will sink in the middle, leaving a high rim.) Wash the mixing bowl and whisk attachment and place in the refrigerator or freezer to chill.
• When the baked mousse is completely cool, remove reserved mousse from refrigerator. Handling as little as possible, transfer the chilled mousse to the center of the baked mousse. Mound it slightly higher in the center, but be careful to handle as little as possible or it will lose the air beaten into it. Refrigerate for at least 2 to 3 hours.
• Make the whipped cream: In the chilled mixing bowl with the chilled whisk attachment, whip the cream, confectioners' sugar and vanilla on high speed until it holds a defined shape. Spread over the unbaked part of the mousse, excluding the rim; refrigerate. (Another way of applying the whipped cream: Use a pastry bag fitted with a medium star tube and pipe a lattice pattern over the top of the pie and a border around the edge.) Coarsely grate some semisweet chocolate over the top before serving, if desired. The torte is best eaten the day it's made, but it's not bad the next day.