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Prep Time: 45 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 75 Minutes Servings: 16 |
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From The Best Freezer Cookbook Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups butter, softened |
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar |
2 eggs |
3 cups all-purpose flour |
2 tablespoons cinnamon |
1 cup whipping cream |
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder |
2 cups sour cream |
1/2 cup grated semisweet chocolate |
1/2 cup granulated sugar |
chocolate curls (to garnish) |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Line three 9 inch cake pans with parchment paper. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, beat 1-1/2 cups butter with 1-1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time.
4. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour and cinnamon. Stir this mixture into the butter/sugar mixture with a wooden spoon.
5. Divide dough into 8-9 equal portions.
6. Spread one portion in each pan.
7. Bake for 8-12 minutes or until golden brown.
8. Cool the cookies in pans on racks. Remove from pans, reline pans with parchment and repeat with remaining 6 portions of dough.
9. When all cookies are baked and cooling, prepare filling.
10. Filling:.
11. In a large bowl whip the cream until stiff. Sift cocoa and fold into cream.
12. In another bowl stir together sugar and sour cream until sugar dissolves. Stir in grated semi-sweet chocolate.
13. Fold sour cream mixture into whipped cream mixture.
14. To assemble:.
15. Arrange one cookie on a cake plate; spread with about 1/9 of filling. Keep layering cookies and filling finishing with filling. Garnish with a pile of chocolate curls.
16. To freeze: Freeze on a cardboard cake circle you can purchase at a baking supply store. Layer as above and then insert a few toothpicks in the top to hold the plastic wrap off the top of the torte.
17. Wrap in plastic and then in foil. Label and freezer for up to 2 months.
18. To serve:.
19. Thaw on counter for 1 hour before serving. Unwrap, remove toothpicks and garnish with the chocolate curls.
20. To make chocolate curls: Run a vegetable peeler over a brick of chocolate and pieces will curl off the peeler.
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