Rich Choc Torte Slice
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Difficulty:
moderate
Difficulty
Preparation:
30 min.
Preparation
ready in 1 hr 15 min.
Ready in
Ingredients
for
1
- For the dough
- 1 cup butter (chopped)
- 1.333 cups dark Chocolate couverture (55 % cocoa solids, chopped)
- 6 eggs (size M, separated)
- 1 organic lemon (zest and juice)
- 1 Vanilla bean (slit open, seeds scraped out)
- ½ cup sugar
- ⅔ cup Pine nuts
- 2 Tbsps Corn starch
- To decorate
- 2 Tbsps powdered sugar
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the oven to 180°C (160° fan) 350F, gas 4.
2.
Melt the butter and couverture in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Beat the egg whites stiffly, adding 1 tbsp lemon juice. Mix the vanilla seeds with the egg yolks, sugar and lemon zest and beat until pale and creamy.
3.
Gradually stir in the melted butter and couverture. Stir in the pine nuts. Spoon the egg whites over the mixture, sift the cornstarch over and fold both in carefully.
4.
Butter the pan and dust with flour. Place the chocolate dough in the pan and smooth the top. Bake on the bottom shelf for 40-45 minutes (test with a wooden toothpick. If it comes out clean, the cake is
5.
done). Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then take carefully out of the pan and let cool completely.
6.
To serve, dust the cake with confectioners' sugar.
