Almond, Chocolate and Cherry Torte
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A ground almond and hazelnut chocolate tort using cake over 70 percent cocoa, filled with a mascarpone and kirsch cream and a jam made from kirsch-soaked morello cherries, finished with chocolate icing.
Manisha is a nursery teacher who practises at home with her dad and brothers.
{Manisha}: "I'm adding hazelnuts and almonds, roasted ground nuts."
{Manisha}: "Chocolate icing, because the cake itself has got 70 percent cocoa so it's quite bitter. Using icing you boost it up with a bit of sweetness."
{Manisha}: "My brothers say it's too chocolatey. I like it, I don't care. But I like chocolate, so it's fine. I eat all the chocolate."
{Paul}: "The problem when you have a chocolate tort like that with ground almonds is they try and dry the thing out, because it's quite a dry meal you're putting in there."
{Mary}: "I'd quite like a little cream with it. It's a good flavour."
{Paul}: "It's a great flavour, but for me the texture is wrong. Just a bit too dry. It's a nice idea. It's simple and effective."
