Signora Bimbis Double Dark Chocolate Torta Recipes

SIGNORA BIMBI'S DOUBLE DARK CHOCOLATE TORTA

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F Butter and flour a shiny 9-inch spring form pan. 2. Put the first quantities of chocolate (bittersweet and unsweetened) and the butter together in a medium-sized microwave safe bowl. Melt for 3 to 4 minutes at medium power. Check by stirring. Chocolate holds it shape when micro-waved. Or melt in a heatproof bowl over simmering water. 3. Mix the espresso into the hot water until dissolved. 4. With a whisk, beat together the cinnamon, vanilla, sugar, salt, espresso, and eggs until creamy. 5. Stir in the flour to thoroughly blend. 6. Then blend in the chocolate/butter mixture until smooth. 7. Stir in the broken-up chocolate bar. 8. Pour the batter into the spring form pan. 9. Bake 25 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out with a few generous, moist streaks of chocolate. 10. Cool on a rack 30 minutes (you could then wrap the cake and chill it up to 2 days). Serve warm, or at room temperature. 11. A dollop of unsweetened whipped cream actually gives balance to rich, intensely flavored sweets like this cake or dust with powdered sugar.

ITALIAN FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-inch cake pan. Line bottom with parchment.
• In a large bowl, using a mixer or by hand, beat the 7 tablespoons butter with the confectioners' sugar until smooth and creamy. Melt chocolate in a pan on top of stove. Pour warm chocolate over the butter and sugar mixture and beat until smooth. Whisk in egg yolks one at a time. Stir in potato starch.
• In a medium bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in superfine sugar and continue beating until firm peaks develop. Fold egg whites into chocolate mixture.
• Scrape the batter out of the bowl, and spread it in the pan. Bake for 18 minutes. Cake will rise and top will look dry and a little crackly. Remove pan from oven, place on a rack and allow to cool completely, about 2 hours. Cake will sink a bit.
• Unmold cake, peel off parchment, then invert onto a serving dish so the crackly surface is on top. Generously sift confectioners' sugar over the top, then serve.

DARK & SQUIDGY CHOCOLATE TORTE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line the base and sides of a 23cm springform or loose-bottomed cake tin. Put the butter and chocolate into a pan and gently melt together until smooth. Meanwhile, using an electric whisk, beat the eggs and sugar together for 5 mins until billowy and about the thickness of old-fashioned custard.
• Pour the chocolate and butter mix into the whisked egg and sugar, then fold it in very carefully using a large metal spoon. Mix the flour, almonds and ¼ tsp salt together, then fold into the mix until even. Spoon into the tin and bake for 35-40 mins until evenly set with a slight crust all over the top. Leave the cake to cool until warm, then release from the tin. Dust with cocoa, then cut into wedges.

SIGNORA BIMBI'S DOUBLE DARK CHOCOLATE TORTA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F; butter and flour a shiny 9-inch springform pan.
• Put the first quantities of chocolate (bittersweet and unsweetened) and the butter together in a medium-sized microwave safe bowl. Melt for 3 to 4 minutes at medium power. Check by stirring. Chocolate holds it shape when microwaved. Or melt in a heatproof bowl over simmering water.
• Mix the espresso into the hot water until dissolved.
• With a whisk, beat together the cinnamon, vanilla, sugar, salt, espresso, and eggs until creamy.
• Stir in the flour to thoroughly blend.
• Then blend in the chocolate/butter mixture until smooth.
• Stir in the broken-up chocolate bar.
• Pour the batter into the springform pan.
• Bake 25 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out with a few generous, moist streaks of chocolate.
• Cool on a rack 30 minutes (you could then wrap the cake and chill it up to 2 days). Serve warm, or at room temperature.
• A dollop of unsweetened whipped cream actually gives balance to rich, intensely flavored sweets like this cake.