Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Double Chocolate Mint Torte

Double Chocolate Mint Torte. Brush red currant jelly mixture over Peppermint extract in the mousse layer? Using a sieve, lightly dust torte with cocoa. Garnish with fresh and chocolate mint leaves, and whipped cream if desired.

This over-the-top chocolate torte recipe comes here by way of my friend Rob Kent, who is famous among his friends for showing up at various birthday parties and special events bringing what is I can only handle eating a piece of Rob's Chocolate Ganache Torte once every few years. Chocolate and mint have a natural affinity for each other, so combining layers of sweet chocolate cake with mellow mint cream mousse is a natural Carefully stack the three filled sections. Place the fourth (unfilled) section on top, pressing down on the whole stack gently.

Hello everybody, it's me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, double chocolate mint torte. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Brush red currant jelly mixture over Peppermint extract in the mousse layer? Using a sieve, lightly dust torte with cocoa. Garnish with fresh and chocolate mint leaves, and whipped cream if desired.

Double Chocolate Mint Torte is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It's easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They're fine and they look wonderful. Double Chocolate Mint Torte is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook double chocolate mint torte using 20 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Double Chocolate Mint Torte:

1. {Take of CAKE.
2. {Take of cake flour.
3. {Make ready of unsweetened cocoa powder.
4. {Get of baking powder.
5. {Make ready of salt.
6. {Make ready of large eggs, at room temperature.
7. {Get of cream of tartar.
8. {Take of granulated sugar, divided use.
9. {Get of vanilla extract.
10. {Get of confectionery sugar for dusting.
11. {Take of WHIPPED CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT GANACHE FILLING.
12. {Take of heavy whipping cream.
13. {Make ready of semi sweet cbocolate, chopped ( chocolate cnips can be used ).
14. {Make ready of pure peppermint extract.
15. {Prepare of GLAZE.
16. {Take of semi sweet chocolate chips.
17. {Prepare of GARNISH.
18. {Take of shaved chocolate mint candy, I used andes mints.
19. {Prepare of chocolate mint sprinkles.
20. {Get of fresh whipped cream and strawberries.

Add the chocolate chips and fold them into the batter with a rubber spatula until just combined. Melt the chocolate over simmering (not boiling) water in a double boiler or in the microwave. Combine melted chocolate, vanilla and peppermint extracts and blend into butter mixture. Loosely cover with plastic wrap (try not to let the plastic touch the surface of the torte).

Steps to make Double Chocolate Mint Torte:

1. MAKE WHIPPED PEPPERMINT FILLING, it needs time to chill.
2. Have chocolate in a large bowl. Heat cream to a simmer either on stovetop or microwave. Pour hot cream over chocolate, let sit one minute than stir until smooth. Cool 5 minutes then stir in peppermint extract. Chill, uncovered until very cold. At least 2 hours or longer.
3. MAKE CAKE.
4. Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 15 by 10 inch jelly roll pan with non stick spray. Line pan with parchment paper, spray parchment with non stick spray.
5. In a bowl, whisk flour, cocoa,powder, baking powder and salt..
6. Separate egg yolks and egg whites, yolks in one large bowl whites in another large bowl. Beat the whites and cream of tartar until soft peaks, slowly add 1/4 cup of the granulated sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
7. Beat egg yolks with remaining 1/2.cup sugar and vanilla until thick and light 2 to 4 minutes. Fold in chocolate/ flour mixture just until combined.
8. Fold 1/4 egg white mixture into yolk mixture, then fold on remaining being careful not to deflate but mixing thoroughly.
9. Spread batter evenly Into prepared pan. Bake 12 to 14 minutes until a toothpick comes out just clean.
10. Cool 2 minutes in pan on wire rack. Meanwhile dust a clean kitchen towel lightly with confectioners sugar. Run a small sharp knife around all edges of cake to release and stuck pieces. Invert cake onto prepared towel. Carefully peel off parchment and cool completely on wire rack.
11. When cake is cool.cut into 4 even slices as shown below.
12. WHIP CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT FILLING AND ASSEMBLE CAKE, beat cold chocolate peppermint cream just until light and fluffy. Place one of the 4 layers of cake on serving platter and frost with 1/3 of the chocolate peppermint filling.
13. Add a second layer of cake and frost with another 1/3 of the chocolate peppermint filling. Add third layer of cake and frost with remaining frosting. Finally add the forth top layer and make chocolate glaze for this layer.
14. MAKE GLAZE.
15. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave just until melted, stir until.smooth an pour over cake top.while warm. Decorate while chocolate is still.warm.with the shaved mint candy and sprinkles so they will stick. Refrigerate to set chocolate topping.
16. Serve with whipped cream and strawberries.

Abby at A Feathered Nest highly recommends this double chocolate torte & the picture alone is enough to convince me I need to try it. This Chocolate Mint Torte recipe takes a tasty chocolate sponge cake and fills it with a delicious mint cream mousse and layers of chocolate ganache. Making this chocolate mint torte was definitely an exercise in flexing new baking muscles for me. First, I'm not very good at making pretty cakes. This Double Chocolate Cupcake recipe is perfect for the ultimate chocolate lover.

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