Jamie Oliver’s Two-nuts Chocolate Torte (Adapted)
Ingredients
- 150g Almonds
- 150g Walnuts (You can make this with any two different Nuts, I like it with Hazels and Pecans)
- 300g high% Cocoa solids Choc (Lindt 85% has the least Sugar
I last made it with some 100% I found on the internet… now, THAT was Chocolatey!) - 1 heaped tsp Cocoa powder
- 255g Butter
- The Taste equivalent to 100g of Caster Sugar in Granulated cookable sweetener (NOT aspartame based!)
- 6 large Eggs
- a little salt (VERY important in Chocolate recipes…)
Method
Preheat the Oven to 190C/375F/GM5. Line an 8 or 10 inch tin (I used a 1.5lb Loaf tin for easy slicing, However, for individual servings that are decadent, Muffin tins are good for portion control here!) with greaseproof, and butter it.
Place the Nuts in the Food processor and whizz until ground, then break in the chocolate and whizz until that is all broken down in there as well. It ends up looking a little like breadcrumbs.
Take that mix, and dump it in a bowl to one side. Clean the Processor bowl, and then add in the butter and “sugar” and cream it until pale and fluffy.
(I tried to lower the carb count once by using a liquid sweetener, If you do that, you cannot cream it into the butter! Add it into the Choc/Nut mixture instead.)
Add the Egg yolks one at a time untill they are all in, and it is nice and pale, then add in the nuts and choc. You end up with a bowl full of sloppy “mud”
In another clean and dry bowl, Whisk the Egg whites with that pinch of salt until stiff. Gently Fold in the Choc mix, and pour into your baking recepticle. For an added, oozzy, gooey treat, put small squares of 70% chocolate all along the mixture, (Or one in each muffin)So that they melt and run when you cut into the cake.
Bake for around an hour. Done when a cocktail stick or knife comes out reasonably clean (the Melted Choc stops it being totally clean!)
Serve HOT with LASHINGS of good, runny, double cream.
