Chocolate Chestnut Bourbon Torte W/a Kentucky

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Title: CHOCOLATE CHESTNUT BOURBON TORTE W/A KENTUCKY
Categories: Chocolate, Tortes
Yield: 20 servings

6 Eggs, separated -- plus 2
Egg yolks
1 1/2 c Sugar -- plus 1/3 cup
4 tb Bourbon -- plus 2 teaspoons
2 1/2 c Pureed unsweetend chestnuts
3/4 c Ground pecans -- plus pecan
Peices for garnish
2 ts Instant coffee
6 tb Chilled buter -- cut into
Pieces
1 1/2 oz Bitter chocolate -- chopped
3/4 lb Bittersweet chocolate
3 1/2 c Whipping cream
1/2 c Confectioners' sugar

1. Make the cake: heat ove to 350. degrees. Grease
and flour 2 nine-inch
cake pans. Beat 6 egg yolks well. Stir in 1 1/2 cups
sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons bourbon, then blend in 2
cups chestnut puree. Stir in ground pecans. Whip egg
whites with a pinch of salt until stiff. Fold whites
inot batter. Divide mixture between the two cake pans
and bake for 25 minutes. Cool on a cake rack, then
remove from the pans.

2. Make the filling: Beat the 2 egg yolks with 1/2
cup of sugar. Add instant coffee and 1 T hot water.
Beat Chilled butter into mixture, then add
1/2 teaspoon bourbon and stir in remaining 1/2 cup
chestnut puree. Stir in chopped bitter chocoalte.
Cover bowl withplastic wrap and refirgerate.

3. Melt bittersweet chocoalte with heavy cream over
low heat. Stir in 2 tablespoon bourbon, transfer to a
bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refirgerate.

4. To assembel cake, sperad the chilled chestnut
filling atop one cake layer
and cover with the other. Cover the torte with the
chocolate icing and sprinklw with chopped pecan
peices. Chill before serving. MEanwhile, prepare
a bourbon chantilly to pass at the table. Whip the 2
cups of cream to soft peaks, gradually beat in the
confectioners' sugar and then fold in 2 tablespoons of
bourbon.

From Chicago Tribune Magazine (cooking
section)11-14-93. Featured was - Cathy
Cary, who with her husband, Will, runs a catering
business (La Peche) and a 94
seat restaurant (Lilly's) in Louisville, KY. This
issue's feature centered around buffet items for
holiday parties.

~- posted by Bud Cloyd

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