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EllaEmerald · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 2026 Location: BRIGHTON

The very few cakes that I have made in my time have been complete disasters, anyone got foolproof recipes for me?

Ruby Rose · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject:

My grandmother makes the most amazing cakes, sadly I'm am nowhere near as gifted. I have heard that the lovely Nigellas book have some wonderful easy to follow recipes in.

Ruby

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Minnie the Minxtress · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 766 Location: Kent

Ella - sometimes you can make lovely cakes that don't require any cooking, ie: cheesecakes.

I have a Delia Smith recipe here for Truffle Chocolate Torte. It is quite simply, the richest, sexiest cake I have ever eaten in my life.

Imagine, a base, crispy and flavoured with those lovely amaretti biscuits, a centre of heavy truffle, flavoured with tia maria and then pour over the top a drizzle of single cream. You only need a thin slice and before you know it, you're lost in Chocolate World...... Very Happy

Miss Kitty Lou · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 969 Location: Brighton

EllaEmerald · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 2026 Location: BRIGHTON

Little Minxtress where is the recipe of which you speak?!

Minnie the Minxtress · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 766 Location: Kent

why here it is Ella - prepare yourself... you'll be a slave to it, once it's on the table, urging you to eat it!

Truffle Torte (with thanks to Delia Smith Christmas Book)

1lb Dark Chocolate or Luxury cooking chocolate
1 pint Double Cream (at room temperature)
5 tbsp Liquid Glucose (from a chemist/Boots)
5 tbsp Dark Rum (Tia Maria)
3oz or 75g Amaretti Biscuits, crushed (in a bag with a rolling pin)
Cocoa powder for dusting

Lightly grease a 9” non-stick cake tin (or line it with a circle of greaseproof paper). Place the crushed amaretti biscuits in a layer at the bottom of the tin.

Put the chocolate, glucose and rum in a dish and melt in the microwave. Meanwhile whip the cream. Fold half of the cream into the chocolate mixture and then fold that back into the remaining cream. Pour into the tin, shake down and chill until nicely set. (NB this can be done the day before the torte is to be eaten)

When ready to serve, run a knife around the edge of the tin and turn the torte out onto a plate (As Delia says, “Don’t worry, it’s very well behaved!”). If you wish you can sift some cocoa onto the top.

Serve on it's own or with fresh single cream- but in very small portions and only to registered chocoholics!

It's so darned easy - you can't go wrong (unless you eat it all and feel sick!)

Side effects: It's addictive, and it's a marvellous aid for seduction - don't say I didn't warn you mwah ha ha hahaaaaaaaaaa Laughing

Cherry Noir · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Manchester

Oh I adore this Torte! My Dad makes it every Christmas, I insist on it, then I try to eat as much as possible, regret it terribly then spend the whole year waiting for him to make the next one! Mmmmmmmm....
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Minnie the Minxtress · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 766 Location: Kent

Cherry - what a lovely Dad you have! He certainly knows the way to his little girls' heart by the sounds of it (plus everyone else!) Very Happy

Ruby Rose · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

Thank you so much for that recipe, think I may have to use it for Afternoon Beautea and then try and hide in a corner and eat it all myself, tee hee.

Ruby
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Minnie the Minxtress · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 766 Location: Kent

Ruby, I kid you not... when you start making it, you dip your finger in and think ohhh yum - I'm gonna to devour this... but once it's all done and chilled and you cut a slice, you quickly realise that it's very very very filling. It's soooo rich. And, sooo naughty!

I can remember oohhhing and ahhhing in a disgusting way over it, yet when I thought 'mmm time for another slice'.. my tummy just wouldn't let me. Surprised

Thankfully, after a nights sleep, I was fully refreshed and raided the fridge the next morning...!!!!! Twisted Evil

Ruby Rose · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject:

You have no idea what a filthy chocolate tramp I am! I can go to chocolatey places that would scare the devil herself! Twisted Evil

Ruby
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Minnie the Minxtress · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 766 Location: Kent

I really can't stop laughing at that!

Ruby Rose · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

Sadly it's so true Shocked

Ruby
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Dolly Dimple · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 21 Location: SE London

Oh my gosh, did that recipe really call for liquid glucose? Shocked

As if a pound of chocolate and a pint of double cream weren't enough?!

Hmm, might try making it soon... Smile

Minnie the Minxtress · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 766 Location: Kent

It does indeed require liquid glucose... it will stick you to the floor, and you'll never get up again. Unless it's for another slice of course. Laughing