mix, mix…stir, stir

It really was only 15 minutes to get this torte in the oven! Quite by accident I noticed the time when I started and went about putting the ingredients together at a casual pace and as I popped it in the oven I noticed the clock had advanced exactly 15 minutes – magic!

The reality behind the “magic” of this recipe is the food processor; it’s so darn quick. Don’t worry, the exquisitely rich, dense chocolate result never lets on that it was easy to make. You would think that with a torte that only took 15 minutes to make I would have had this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie result posted in a timely manner, but here it is Wednesday. Let’s just say I was distracted by its deliciousness.

The Amaretti cookies are the flavor backbone of this torte with their distinct sweet almond-apricot flavor really shining against the bittersweet chocolate.  Though good quality cookies like the D. Lazzaroni brand are expensive, they really deliver the unique Amaretti cookie flavor that makes this torte so wonderful.

The biggest risk with flourless chocolate cakes is dryness, which makes for a crushingly disappointing dessert experience. Part of why this torte was so good is because it was extremely moist and tender. The ground cookies and ground almonds also added a nice texture. The torte plates up as an impressive dessert and seems like a fancy thing to serve, but the reality is you can also eat it out of hand because the slices are sturdy. Merging hobbies, I used my triangle cutting skills developed through quilt making to cut parchment wraps for individual slices. I loaded them in a plastic container and passed them out to my kickball team after our first game. Not fancy, but still really tasty!

Thank you to Holly of  Phe/MOM/enon for picking the recipe for this week and rekindling my love of Amaretti cookies. The recipe is posted on Holly’s blog if you have a spare 15 minutes and want to do some baking.

I, along with over 350 other baking bloggers are baking our way thorough Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking: From My Home to Yours . 69 recipes completed 152 to go!