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Prinzregent Torte

I made this recipe for my boyfriend on his birthday and he asked me to marry him (I did). I'm not saying for sure that the Prinzregent Torte is why Don wanted to marry me, but I've always worried that it might have been. It is a magnificent recipe that always evokes incredulous cries of pleasure from people that I serve it to. The cake is a lot of work, so I only make it about once a year, but the people that I make it for feel very special.

 

Yield

2 servings

Prep

1 hrs

Cook

7 min

Ready

Trans-fat Free

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
Cake
9 ounces butter
salted
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9 ounces sugar
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teaspoon vanilla extract
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4 large eggs
beaten
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1 ⅔ cups cake flour
about, (sift before measuring!!)
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½ cup cornstarch
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1 teaspoon baking powder
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Filling
2 cups chocolate pudding
(extra strong)
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7 ounces butter, unsalted
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1 ⅔ cups powdered sugar
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Frosting
1 ounce cocoa powder
bitter
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1 ounce butter
melted
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3 tablespoons water
boiling, (up to 4 t)
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
Cake
260.1 ml/g butter
salted
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260.1 ml/g sugar
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0.6 ml vanilla extract
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4 large eggs
beaten
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394 ml cake flour
about, (sift before measuring!!)
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118 ml cornstarch
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5 ml baking powder
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Filling
473 ml chocolate pudding
(extra strong)
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202.3 ml/g butter, unsalted
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394 ml powdered sugar
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Frosting
28.9 ml/g cocoa powder
bitter
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28.9 ml/g butter
melted
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45 ml water
boiling, (up to 4 t)
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Directions

In an electric mixer, whip the salted butter.

Add sugar, vanilla and eggs.

Beat smooth.

Mix flour with cornstarch and baking powder and sift a second time (you sift it once before you measured it, right?).

Add flour mixture to egg mixture, stirring constantly.

Make 8 layers, each less than about ¼ inch thick, by baking each in the bottom of an 8-inch springform layer pan.

Do this by cutting a round of baker's parchment that exactly fits the bottom of the layer pan, then using a spatula to spread the dough evenly over the parchment.

Make sure that it doesn't get too thin at the edges.

Bake each layer for 7 minutes in a preheated 400℉ (200℃) oven. Stack the layers separated by waxed paper.

MAKE THE PUDDING: Use more chocolate in the pudding than you would normally use.

If you want to be lazy and use pudding from a mix, then add about a tablespoon of top-quality cocoa to the pudding mix.

Stir the pudding while it cools so that it does not congeal.

Beat the unsalted butter until it is very smooth.

When the butter and pudding are about the same temperature, add the pudding to the butter to get an even, smooth buttercream.

Use the pudding/butter mixture as mortar, and layer the cake together, spreading the pudding/butter evenly between the layers.

Make sure the layers are even and parallel; if they are not, or if one is not straight, you can mend things with a little extra pudding here and there.

Do not put pudding on top of the topmost layer, and try not to get too much on the outside edges.

MAKE A CHOCOLATE FROSTING: Sift the powdered 10X sugar and cocoa together, add the melted butter while stirring constantly, then add boiling water.

Frost the cake, taking pains to make sure the sides are perfectly smooth and the top is perfectly smooth.

Let the cake sit at cool room temperature for at least an hour before serving.

  • If you are not an experienced baker, you should be warned that in recipes like this it is important to measure exactly and to follow the instructions exactly.

People who prefer to cook by testing, tasting, and adding more ingredients should avoid intricate baking.

  • These layers are baked in the bottom of a springform pan.

Such a pan bottom is about 8 inches in diameter, and has a raised lip that is about ⅛ inch high.

It resembles a miniature pizza pan. I have never succeeded in making this torte with layers bigger than about 10 inches; about 8 inches is easier. The baker's parchment is crucial and there is no good substitute, though buttered kraft paper (from shopping bags) will work in a pinch. Use a new piece of parchment for each layer. If you don't make the layers straight, then when you pile them up, the cake will be mounded up in the middle or will sag down in the middle or will tilt to one side. * If you are not an experienced cake froster, then make double the recipe of frosting. Unskilled frosters usually use too much frosting, and you don't really want to run out. You can charge money to people who want to lick the spoon if there is any left over. Difficulty: rather difficult; Time: 1 hour; Precision: measure carefully.



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Comments


anonymous United States

I have my mothers recipe (she was German) for Prinzregenten Torte. It takes a lot of time, but it is so worth it.

Taylor   

what is it, plz gib

anonymous

This is gorgeous!

anonymous Canada

Hi,
The cake looks so gorgeous that I can't stop looking at it. I was wondering what is the amount of 10X sugar to be added for Frosting? I don't see sugar listed under frosting ingredients however I do see 1 2/3 cups powdered sugar listed under filling.

anonymous

For someone who warns that only experienced bakers can make this, you didn't post a complete recipe. Per your frosting instructions you make it with powdered sugar, cocoa, butter, and boiling water, but you didn't include how much sugar in your ingredients list.

anonymous

was curious is this like panetone

anonymous   France

Not.

anonymous United States

My stepson mark Mark Hansen is turning 40 tomarrow.i asked him his favorite cake and he showed me this list of sweet things that I could not pronounce. However he added he would be thrilled to help me as he had wanted to try something new. This is the one he choose and iam absolutely ecstatic about doing this for him.he is so worldly(for lack of a better word.) It's going to be my absolute pleasure.i will post the outcome when its done!!!!

Jen

I don't know if anybody will see this but it brought back many happy memories of my Bavarian grandmother who baked these tortes and many more for the entirety of her 100 year life. She made it a little differently, perhaps a Nuremberg variation! Short cut... Use 3- 11x16 inch cookie sheets instead and pour the batter into them. Cut into 1/2 each way and make an elegant loaf shape instead of a round. 1st layer of filling was always a very thin layer of apricot preserves. Rest of the interior layers were a light coffee cream and then cover the entire torte with the typical dark chocolate glaze. It is actually similar to an Opera Torte. I think the preserves and the coffee cream cut the sweetness. Guten Apetit

 

 

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 362g (12.8 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 160957% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 102g 158%
Saturated Fat 63g 315%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 467mg 156%
Sodium 483mg 20%
Total Carbohydrate 56g 56%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Sugars g
Protein 25g
Vitamin A 64% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 9% Iron 31%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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