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- -- Truffles Torte (serves 10)
- Butter 9x2 or 9x3 springform, dust lightly with breadcrumbs
- Melt, cool slightly
- 4 oz semisweet chocolate
- 2 oz unsweet chocolate
- Mix
- 3 T flour
- 7 oz (2 c) pecans, finely ground
- Cream
- 1.5 sticks butter
- Add, beat mod-high for 1-2'
- 3/4 c sugar
- Add one at a time, beating well
- 5 yolks
- Add chocolate on low, then nuts, gradually.
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- Beat to stiff but not dry
- 5 whites
- pinch salt
- Stir a bit into chocolate, then fold in rest in 3 or 4 batches.
- Level into pan by rotating rapidly.
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- 1 hr at 350. Cool 15', remove from pan and cool.
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- Melt
- 3 oz semisweet chocolate
- Whisk in
- 2 T butter, room temp
- then
- 1 yolk
- 1 t rum or cognac
- Drop in ten mounds on wax paper. Stand 30-60' until firm enough to handle.
- Coat hands with cocoa, roll into uneven ball, roll in
- cocoa
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- Melt
- 6 oz semisweet
- Cream
- 1 stick butter
- Beat in chocolate and
- 1 yolk
- 1 T rum or cognac
- Beat briefly at high until a bit ligher in color
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- Frost cake, arrange truffles on top.
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- -- Strawberry Puree (1-1/3 c)
- Thaw in a colander over a deep bowl
- 20 oz frozen strawberries (I froze fresh ones that morning)
- Press to squeeze out juice. Should take several hours, and you should
- get about 1.25 c juice).
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- Place in 4 c heatproof container, microwave to reduce to 1/4 c. Can do it
- in a saucepan over fire, but microwave is better).
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- Puree strawberries. Add reduced juice and
- 2 t lemon juice
- 1/4 c sugar
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