Tuesdays with Dorie: Cherry-Fudge Brownie Torte

Let me begin this post with a PSA: Texting while baking can lead to accidents in the kitchen. For instance, if, while you are baking Dorie’s Cherry-Fudge Brownie Torte for TWD, you are also texting one friend about meeting for lunch and another friend about meeting for drinks, it may not register that the recipe calls for cherry preserves and extra chopped chocolate to be stirred into the brownie base . Trust me, I know! Lucky for me it happened with a forgiving cake.

This is definitely a dense and super-rich dessert. The base is essentially a double-height brownie. It was a little too full-on for me, actually. But the mascarpone mousse topping…that is was really nice and light as a feather. While I probably won’t be making this complete dessert again, I think the mousse would make a fantastic cake filling and I’ll keep it in mind.

Steph, I couldn’t agree more about the richness of this dessert. Loved the mousse too. And I also added all the chocolate instead of stirring in the last chopped portion. Anyway, yours is beautiful. The mousse as a filling is a great idea.

What a cute little cake! I made a quarter recipe in a mini springform, so it turned out quite a bit like yours (minus the mousse). And I don’t think I’d miss the chocolate chunks or cherry preserves – the chocolate interrupted the brownie quite a bit, and I couldn’t taste the preserves.

Very well done Steph! I was very surprised by that cake… didn’t expect much and it turned out to be very nice and tasty! But in the end really… it didn’t taste much of cherries, so you didn’t miss much.