Viennese chocolate torte

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
8 Eggs -- separated
1 cup Sugar
2 ounces Semisweet chocolate --
Melted and cooled
¼ cup Fresh orange juice
1 teaspoon Grated orange rind
2 cups Ground walnuts
⅓ cup Cake meal
⅓ cup Potato starch
2 Oranges -- peeled and
Sectioned
ORANGE FILLING--------------
10 ounces Apricot preserves
1 Orange peeled and section
CHOCOLATE GLAZE-------------
½ cup Orange juice
6 ounces Semisweet chocolate --
Broken

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees Have an ungreased 10-inch tube pan 4½" high. 2. Beat egg yoks with ½ c sugar until very thick. Blend in chocolate, orange juice and rind. Mix 1c nuts with cake meal and potato starch. Fold into yolk mixture. 3. With clean dry beaters, beat whites untill foamy. Gradually beat in remaining 1\\2 c. sugar untill stiff peaks form. Gently fold yolk mixture into beaten whites. Turn into tube pan and bake 55 to 60 min., untill cake tests done. 4. Invert pan on rack and let cake hang untill completely cool. Remove from pan and slice cake in half horizontally. Spread orange filling over top of bottom half. top with second layer. Coat cake with glaze. Garnish with remaining 1 c. nuts and the orange sections. 5. Orange filling: melt preserves; stir in orange sections. Cool 5 min. 6. Chocolate glaze: heat orange juice. remove from heat, add chocolate, stiring until melted smooth. Cool 5 min.

Posted to EAT-L Digest - 3 June 96 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:18:53 -0400 From: Betsy Burtis <BuddoB@...> Recipe By :

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