Chocolate Bavarian Torte

Friday, February 8, 2008, by Sherra

First, I need to start by saying that I won’t necessarily be posting a recipe every Friday. This is merely a coincidence in the timing of the Superbowl and upcoming Valentine’s Day. And since I have had a wee bit of trouble “finding the funny” in anything this week, chocolate and whipping cream go a long way in my personal healing.

Secondly, every recipe I have in my extensive recipe collection does not call for whipping cream or half and half. It is just another coincidence.

Seriously, I just wanted to give you some lead time to go to the grocery and buy these complicated ingredients for this elaborate and FAN-CEE cake so you can impress your family by making this fabulous cake for your Valentine’s Day dessert!

That’s next Thursday, February 14th, for those of you who are not planners. Just like Christmas, it comes once a year, same month and date so don’t let it surprise you this year.

You have to refrigerate this cake overnight so that means you need to make it on Wednesday, February 13th. See, I’m here to help you plan. Be ready. Make this cake!

Unless your family is allergic to chocolate and/or dairy…then I don’t have any suggestions. That must be hard. I’m sorry.

The picture to entice and inspire you…

I’d like to tell you that this cake is one I actually made and the lovely pink roses and baby’s breath scattered in the background are from PhilBillPaul. That would be a big lie.

But the picture did make me laugh. Because it made me think about my friend Leigh Anne, who would make it in heart-shaped pans and scatter raspberries around the plate (that she and her children picked) and cut fresh flowers from her garden…I love to have friends who are so different than me…it’s what makes the world go ’round

Our way: We don’t change a darn thing in this recipe. Sometimes I skip the grated chocolate on the top just because I’m lazy like that. I’m all about eating and not so much about presentation.

Photo & recipe from Taste of Home magazine

Enjoy and please do tell if you and your family love it as much as we do!!

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4 Responses to “Chocolate Bavarian Torte”

O.K. so I’ve got the heart shaped pan ready and greased but there will be no fresh picked raspberries or flowers – it is WINTER in Oregon and my garden is under a foot of water!

Oh come on, I bet you have some raspberries in the freezer or you can save the recipe for summer so you can re-create the magazine photo but with your own special touch!

Hey. I DID make the cake! How about that?? I must say, it looks much better than your m&m’s and pretzels. I think we ate 1/2 the icing last night while I was in the process of construction for the darn thing. All John kept saying was,” that icing would go mighty fine on top of an Irish Coffee”. He’s not much into the sweets but he is into the booze. (just kidding) Well, he is Irish you know.

Sorry, late reading this. I’ve been a tad too busy but I will give it a whirl soon. Our favorite is a Pampered Chef Reese’s cake that you make in the microwave!! Here it is for you to try. Sorry I don’t have any pictures. We EAT the darn thing too quick. It’s too delicious right out of the microwave.
Chocolate Reeses Cake

1 box of chocolate or devils food cake mix

16oz. sour cream

3 eggs

10 to 12 regular size reeses cups

½ c. choc. morsels plus 1 tsp. veg. oil

½ c. peanut butter

handful of peanuts

Spray Fluted Pan w/Pam

Whisk 1st 3 ingredients together. Mixture will be thick.

Pour ¾ of mixture in pan then add the reeses in a single layer all around the pan. Pour rest of mixture on top of reeses.

Cook in microwave for 12 minutes (works best in a micro with a turntable) if not with turning device be sure to turn ½ way through cook time.

Let sit in pan for 10 minutes. Invert onto plate. It does fit on a simple additions med. square. In micro cooker melt morsels with veg. oil for 60 seconds and if not melted check every 10 to 15 seconds after. Pour on top of cake and let it drizzle down sides and puddle in the middle. Then melt peanut butter in same micro cooker (no need to wash out) and pour over the chocolate also letting it run down the sides and puddle in the middle. With food chopper chop the handful of nuts and sprinkle on top of peanut butter drizzle.

THIS IS DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PC ladies use their stoneware fluted pan to make this cake but one of those silicone ones works quite nicely if you don’t have the stoneware one (like I didn’t ) My PC rep is working on this problem.

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