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- From: guest@shasta.ARPA (Delight Covill)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Prinzregent Torte
- Date: 21 Dec 85 06:45:15 GMT
- Organization: Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Gaithersburg MD
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE PRINZ-TORTE D "14 Feb 83" 1986
- .RZ "PRINZREGENT TORTE" "Austrian 8-layer chocolate cake"
- I made this recipe for my boyfriend on his birthday and he asked me to marry
- him (I did). I'm not saying for sure that the Prinzregent Torte is why Don
- wanted to marry me, but I've always worried that it might have been. It is a
- magnificent recipe that always evokes incredulous cries of pleasure from
- people that I serve it to. The cake is a lot of work, so I only make it
- about once a year, but the people that I make it for feel very special.
- .IH "Serves 2\-8"
- .SH CAKE
- .IG "9 oz" "salted butter" "260 g"
- .IG "9 oz" "sugar" "210 g"
- .IG "1/8 tsp" "vanilla extract" "0.5 ml"
- .IG "4" "eggs,"
- (large, or 5 medium)
- beaten.
- .IG "1 2/3 cups" "cake flour" "150 g"
- .AB "(sift before measuring!!)" ""
- .IG "\(12 cup" "cornstarch" "75 g"
- .IG "1 tsp" "baking powder" "5 ml"
- .SH FILLING
- .IG "2 cups" "chocolate pudding" "500 ml"
- (extra strong)
- .IG "7 oz" "unsalted butter" "200 g"
- .IG "1 2/3 cup" "powdered 10X sugar" "220 g"
- .SH FROSTING
- .IG "1 oz" "bitter cocoa powder" "30 ml"
- .IG "1 oz" "melted sweet butter" "30 g"
- .IG "3\-4 Tbsp" "boiling water" "40\-60 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- In an electric mixer,
- whip the salted butter. Add sugar, vanilla, and eggs. Beat smooth.
- .SK 2
- Mix flour with cornstarch and baking powder and sift a second time (you
- sifted it once before you measured it, right?). Add flour mixture to egg
- mixture, stirring constantly.
- .SK 3
- Make 8 layers, each less than
- .AB "\(14 inch" "5 mm"
- thick, by baking each in
- the bottom of
- .AB "an 8-inch" "a 20-cm"
- springform layer pan. Do this by cutting a round of
- baker's parchment that exactly fits the bottom of the layer pan, then
- using a spatula to spread the dough evenly over the parchment. Make sure
- that it doesn't get too thin at the edges.
- .SK 4
- Bake each layer for 7 minutes in a preheated
- .TE 400 200
- oven. Stack the layers separated by waxed paper.
- .SK 5
- Make the pudding. Use more chocolate in the pudding than you would normally
- use. If you want to be lazy and use pudding from a mix, then add
- .AB "a tablespoon" "15 ml"
- of top-quality cocoa to the pudding mix. Stir the pudding while
- it cools so that it does not congeal.
- .SK 6
- Beat the unsalted butter until it is very smooth. When the butter and
- pudding are about the same temperature, add the pudding to the butter to get
- an even, smooth buttercream.
- .SK 7
- Use the pudding/butter mixture as mortar, and layer the cake together,
- spreading the pudding/butter evenly between the layers. Make sure the layers
- are even, and parallel; if they are not, or if one is not straight, you can
- mend things with a little extra pudding here and there. Do not put pudding
- on top of the topmost layer, and try not to get too much on the outside
- edges.
- .SK 8
- Make a chocolate frosting: sift the powdered 10X sugar and cocoa together,
- add the melted butter while stirring constantly, then add boiling water.
- .SK 9
- Frost the cake, taking pains to make sure the sides are perfectly smooth and
- the top is perfectly smooth. Let the cake sit at cool room temperature for
- at least an hour before serving.
- .NX
- If you are not an experienced baker, you should be warned that in recipes
- like this it is important to measure exactly and to follow the instructions
- exactly. People who prefer to cook by testing, tasting, and adding more
- ingredients should avoid intricate baking.
- .PP
- These layers are baked in the bottom of a springform pan. Such a pan bottom
- is
- .AB "8 inches" "20 cm"
- in diameter, and has a raised lip that is about
- .AB "1/8 inch" "2 mm"
- high.
- It resembles a miniature pizza pan. I have never succeeded in making this
- torte with layers bigger than
- .AB "10 inches" "25 cm" ;
- .AB "8 inches" "20 cm"
- is easier. The baker's
- parchment is crucial and there is no good substitute, though
- buttered kraft paper (from shopping bags) will work in a pinch. Use a new
- piece of parchment for each layer. If you don't make the layers straight,
- then when you pile them up, the cake will be mounded up in the middle or
- will sag down in the middle or will tilt to one side.
- .PP
- If you are not an experienced cake froster, then make double the recipe of
- frosting. Unskilled frosters usually use too much frosting, and you don't
- really want to run out. You can charge money to people who want to lick the
- spoon if there is any left over.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- rather difficult.
- .I Time:
- 1 hour.
- .I Precision:
- measure carefully.
- .WR
- Delight Covill
- Fairchild Camera and Instrument
-