Trisha Yearwood’s Chocolate Torte

Trisha Yearwood’s chocolate torte is essentially a 12-layer vanilla cake that’s smothered with chocolate glaze. A sophisticated dessert that’s surprisingly simple to make.

Adapted from Trisha Yearwood | Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood | Clarkson Potter, 2010

As author Trisha Yearwood says of this cake, you may take a look at the layers and think, “There is no way I’m making this at home!” “But,” she continues to explain, “the recipe is both simple and savvy, baking several skinny cakes in 9-inch cake pans. It sure beats making a plain ole double layer chocolate cake and slicing both of those suckers into six with that inevitable and maddening mess of crumbs that comes from hacking away at the cake with a bread knife.” Impressive in stature as well as taste.–Trisha Yearwood

How To Make This Torte A Simple Two-Layer Cake

Yes, we understand, you don’t always have the time or patience for tradition–or lots and lots of layers. So sure, why not, go ahead, bake the batter in two standard 9-inch round cake pans and then stack and frost the two layers as is, as you would any layer cake. Then call it a day–a darn good day.

Trisha Yearwood's Chocolate Torte

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• Serves 15

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• For the chocolate glaze
• 1 1/2 sticks (6 oz) butter
• 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 4 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 1/4 cups evaporated milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules, preferably French roast
• For the cake
• 2 sticks (8 oz) butter, at room temperature, plus more for the pans
• 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 6 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups plus 1 tablespoon milk
• 4 cups self-rising flour, plus more for the pans

Directions

Make the glaze

[Editor’s Note: Be sure to make the glaze before you bake the cakes.] In a large saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the butter. Add the chocolate and stir until melted. 

Add the sugar and stir until it dissolves. Then stir in the evaporated milk, vanilla, and the instant coffee, increase the heat to medium-high, and bring it to a boil. 

Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens to a glaze, about 20 minutes.

Remove the glaze from the heat.

Make the cake

Preheat the oven to 350°F (176°C). Butter and flour at least four 9-inch cake pans.

In the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. 

In a small bowl, mix the vanilla with the milk. Add the flour to the egg mixture alternately with the milk mixture, beginning and ending with the flour.

Pour a very thin layer of batter—about 7 tablespoons—into each pan, shaking the pans to distribute the batter to the edges. Bake the layers for 11 to 13 minutes. 

While the first cake layers bake, return the glaze to low heat as the glaze must be warm to spread on the cake layers.

When the cake layers are done, immediately remove the layers from the pans and, working one at a time, place the layers on a cake stand and immediately slather with some of the warm glaze.

Bake all of the remaining batter in this manner and continue to stack and glaze in this fashion. You should be able to get 12 layers from this recipe. Reserve the last of the glaze to dribble over the top of the cake. Originally published October 29, 2010.

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