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🍫Triple Chocolate Torte

Ben Silver

by Ben Silver (@Ben Silver)

Unbelievably delicious and very unbelievably easy!

16 ingredients8 steps9 servings687.2 cal/serving
VegetarianNut-Free

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Prep: 20 minCook: 30 min
Servings

Ingredients

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Cake

  • 2eggs(separated)
  • 1.5 cupssugar(divided)
  • 1.25 cupsall-purpose flour
  • 0.25 cupsHERSHEY'S cocoa
  • 0.75 tspbaking soda
  • 0.5 tspsalt
  • 0.5 cupsvegetable oil
  • 1 cupbuttermilk or sour milk

Chocolate Cream Filling

  • 0.67 cupssugar
  • 0.33 cupcocoa
  • 1.5 cupswhipping cream
  • 1.5 tspvanilla

Chocolate Glaze

  • 3 Tbspbutter
  • 3 Tbsplight corn syrup
  • 1 Tbspwater
  • 1 cupchocolate chips

Instructions

Cake

  1. 1Heat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
  2. 2In small mixer bowl, beat egg whites until foamy; gradually add 1/2 cup sugar, beating until stiff peaks form.
  3. 3In large mixer bowl, stir together remaining 1 cup sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add oil, buttermilk and egg yolks; beat until smooth. Gently fold egg whites into batter. Pour batter into prepared pans.
  4. 4Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

Chocolate Cream Filling

  1. 1In small mixer bowl, combine 2/3 cups sugar and 1/3 cup cocoa. Add 1 1/2 cups whipping cream and 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla. Beat on low speed of electric mixer until blended. Beat on medium speed until stiff.

Chocolate Glaze

  1. 1In small saucepan, combine 3 tbsp. butter, 3 tbsp. light corn syrup and 1 tbsp. water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture begins to boil. Remove from heat and add 1 cup chocolate chips, stirring until melted. Cool to room temperature.

Assembly

  1. 1With long serrated knife, cut each cake layer horizontally in half. Spread one cake layer with one-third of chocolate cream filling; top with second layer. Repeat procedure ending with plain layer on top.
  2. 2Prepare chocolate glaze; glaze cake. Decorate with chocolate leaves, if desired. Refrigerate until serving time. Cover; refrigerate leftover torte.
Nutrition Facts
Valeur nutritive
Per 1 serving
pour 1 serving
% Daily Value*
% valeur quotidienne*
Calories 687.2
Fat / Lipides 35.1 g47 %
Saturated / saturés 19.8 g100 %
+ Trans 0.1 g
Cholesterol / Cholestérol 98.7 mg33 %
Sodium 312.8 mg14 %
Carbohydrate / Glucides 89.7 g33 %
Fibre / Fibres 4.2 g15 %
Sugars / Sucres 78.3 g78 %
Protein / Protéines 8.4 g
Potassium 287.4 mg8 %
Calcium 118.6 mg9 %
Vitamin D / Vitamine D
Iron / Fer 2.8 mg16 %

*5% or less is a little, 15% or more is a lot

*5% ou moins c'est peu, 15% ou plus c'est beaucoup

Nutrition values are AI-estimated and may not be exact. See disclaimer below.

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