WEEKEND: Eating at Home: From Long Lazy Lunches to Fast Family Fixes by Matt Tebbutt (Quadrille, £22) Photography: Chris Terry
Hazelnut And Raspberry Torte With Chocolate And Almond Cream
A great combination of rich, decadent chocolate, fresh fruity raspberries and the crunchy bite from the hazelnuts
A really special dessert to round off the evening.
Ingredients
- For the torte
- 200g salted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 175g caster sugar
- 3 medium free-range eggs
- 80g hazelnuts, whizzed to a crumb consistency,
- plus 100g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
- 125g plain flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 3–4 tbsp full-fat milk
- 300g fresh raspberries
- 150g dark chocolate, at least 70% cocoa, broken into small pieces
- For the chocolate cream
- 130g almond butter
- 100g unsalted butter, softened
- 130g icing sugar
- 80g cocoa powder
- 4 tsp–5 tbsp full-fat milk, to loosen
Method
- Preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan/375F/gas mark 5, and grease and line a 23cm (9in) springform cake tin with butter. To make the torte, beat the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large mixing bowl using a hand-held electric whisk for about 10 minutes until pale and soft. Gradually add the eggs, one by one and mixing between additions, then add the hazelnut crumb, flour and baking powder and mix well. The mixture should have a soft, spoonable consistency. If it is a bit stiff, loosen with the milk (you may not need it all).
- Scatter half the fresh raspberries over the bottom of the cake tin (reserve the other half to serve). Pour the cake mixture over the raspberries in the base of the tin and scatter over the chocolate pieces and the chopped hazelnuts. Bake for 1–1½ hours (a skewer inserted into the centre will come out clean when it is done). Take the torte out of the oven and leave on a wire rack to cool.
- While the torte is cooking, make the chocolate cream: in a mixing bowl, use a hand-held electric whisk to whisk the almond butter with the butter and sugar until well mixed. Stir in the cocoa powder and just enough milk to loosen to a whipped cream consistency. Keep somewhere cool until ready to serve.
- Slice the torte and serve with the chocolate cream and the remaining fresh raspberries.
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