Rose Levy Beranbaum's Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte

Name: Rose Levy Beranbaum's Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 3 h 15 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pound (454 grams) bittersweet chocolate (fine quality that you love eating, no higher than 62%); 1/2 pound (2 sticks, or 227 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature; 6 large eggs (300 grams, out of the shell), room temperature if possible; Equipment: One 8-inch spring form pan at least 2 1/2 inches high, buttered, and bottom lined with buttered parchment; outside of pan wrapped with a double layer of heavy-duty foil. One 10-inch cake pan or roasting pan to serve as a water bath

Instructions

Prep:3hCook:15min

Note: If you want to see lots of questions answered by Beranbaum herself, head to the original article here. This flourless chocolate torte is a better and purer vehicle for chocolate than chocolate itself (scientifically speaking). It's made from just 3 ingredients: chocolate, butter, eggs. It takes less time to mix together than your average cookie, and it only bakes for 15 minutes. Beranbaum's recipes are famously precise, but, as I found out, it's not because there's only one way to get them right. It's because she tests them until she finds the most proven path to making them the best that they can be. Adapted very slightly from The Cake Bible (William Morrow, 1988).

Updated at: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:42:45 GMT

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Ingredients

8 servings

1 poundbittersweet chocolate

fine quality that you love eating, no higher than 62%)

0.5 poundunsalted butter

room temperature

6eggs

large, out of the shell ,, room temperature if possible

spring form pan cake pan

8-inch, at least 2 1/2 inches high, buttered, and bottom lined with buttered parchment, outside of pan wrapped with a double layer of heavy-duty foil, 10-inch, or roasting pan to serve as a water bath