Cinnamon Chocolate Torte

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 cups sour cream
• 1/2 cup grated semisweet chocolate
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• chocolate curls (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 2 line three 9 inch cake pans with parchment paper. set aside.
• 3 in a large bowl, beat 1-1/2 cups butter with 1-1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. beat in eggs one at a time.
• 4 in a medium bowl, stir together the flour and cinnamon. stir this mixture into the butter/sugar mixture with a wooden spoon.
• 5 divide dough into 8-9 equal portions.
• 6 spread one portion in each pan.
• 7 bake for 8-12 minutes or until golden brown.
• 8 cool the cookies in pans on racks. remove from pans, reline pans with parchment and repeat with remaining 6 portions of dough.
• 9 when all cookies are baked and cooling, prepare filling.
• 10 filling:.
• 11 in a large bowl whip the cream until stiff. sift cocoa and fold into cream.
• 12 in another bowl stir together sugar and sour cream until sugar dissolves. stir in grated semi-sweet chocolate.
• 13 fold sour cream mixture into whipped cream mixture.
• 14 to assemble:.
• 15 arrange one cookie on a cake plate; spread with about 1/9 of filling. keep layering cookies and filling finishing with filling. garnish with a pile of chocolate curls.
• 16 to freeze: freeze on a cardboard cake circle you can purchase at a baking supply store. layer as above and then insert a few toothpicks in the top to hold the plastic wrap off the top of the torte.
• 17 wrap in plastic and then in foil. label and freezer for up to 2 months.
• 18 to serve:.
• 19 thaw on counter for 1 hour before serving. unwrap, remove toothpicks and garnish with the chocolate curls.
• 20 to make chocolate curls: run a vegetable peeler over a brick of chocolate and pieces will "curl" off the peeler.