Day 8

Chocolate Rum Torte

Hey everyone, so I was racking my brain all night trying to figure out what to cook, first plan was guacamole but my avocados are not ripe yet, next i was going to make one of my great grandmother's recipes, but lo and behold no nutmeg! So finally I was flipping through my betty crocker cookbook and my mom and I came across a recipe for a chocolate torte, but we decided to change it up...... I gathered all my recipes heavy whipping cream, brownie mix, instant hot cocoa mix, brown sugar, 2 eggs, some mini chocolate bars, chopped pecans, and placed a bowl in the freezer to chill. After everything was gathered I put water, brownie mix 2 eggs and chopped pecans in a bowl, then i chopped up a couple of mini hersheys bars and tossed them in as well

Once everything was in the bowl I stirred it all up til it was a nice and smooth creamy chocolatey mix, then I poured the mixture in a cake pan and placed in the oven for 20 mins to cook

While I waited for it to bake I went around and cleaned up my area, which is such a smart thing to do cause if you clean as you go then by the time you are done cooking you only have a little bit of cleaning left. so note: if you ever have done time be sure to clean up! Well once my area was clean I poured brown sugar into a measuring cup, now this brown sugar apparently had forgotten it was sugar and was in clumps, so to soften it a little I placed it in the microwave for about 40 secs, I then pounded it down so it was packed nice and tight. I then added the instant hot cocoa mix and a splash of water and stirred it up

Once that was ready I pulled the chilled bowl from the freezer and poured in my whipping cream, and began to whip it with a beater, now I dont know what I was thinking because the cream would not whip, so i pulled out my mixer and within seconds it was whipped (gotta love technology) once the cream was whip cream, I added the mixture and just for an added flavor a splash of vanilla rum, now why would I do that you ask? Well we all know that alcohol makes everything better hahahaha! once everything was all whipped up my "frosting" was a very pretty creamy brown color

I pulled my torte out of the oven and let it cool for a bit so the frosting would not melt the second I placed it on the torte, after it had cooled I spread the frosting all over the torte and then as my mom told me I swirled the frosting so as to give a pretty swirl design

After that was done I learned about one of my new favorite kitchen utensils a zester! If you do not have one of these you need to go buy one now! They are amazing I took one of my mini chocolate bars and put shavings on the cake and it looked great but then I learned that it keeps some of the shavings in it so you can sprinkle it where you want to! I know I am such a kitchen nerd so dont mind me drooling over kitchen appliances, but as you can see it made the chocolate shavings look great!

So the torte came out great, and tasted delicious first you would get a taste of the butter rum frosting, but then the pecans, then the chocolate it was just fantastic, here is the final display picture, unfortunately I realized I should have put chocolate swirl on the plate underneath too late. Well thats all I got for you today, hope you enjoyed it remember to Follow, comment, leave your advice, send your love etc.....