Chocolate Walnut Ring Recipes

FUDGE SCOTCH RING

Steps:

• Line bottom of a 9" pie pan with a 12" square of aluminum foil.
• Place a cup in center of pan.
• Place walnut halves around cup, forming a 2" wide ring. Set aside.
• Combine chocolate, butterscotch and condensed milk in a microwave bowl and zap for 3 minutes at High.
• Remove from microwave and beat with spoon until glossy. Add vanilla and chopped walnuts. Chill about 1 hour.
• Spoon mixture in mounds over walnut halves; remove cup.
• Decorate with candied cherries.
• Cut in pieces for serving.

FUDGIE SCOTCH RING

Steps:

• In top of double boiler, melt chocolate and butterscotch together with milk. Stir occasionally until mixture begins to thicken. Remove from heat; add chopped walnuts and vanilla. Blend well. Chill for 1 hour until mixture thickens. Line bottom of a 9-inch pan with a 12-inch square of foil. Place 3/4 cup walnut halves in bottom of pan, forming a 2-inch-wide flat ring. Spoon chocolate mixture in small mounds on top of walnuts to form a ring. Garnish with remaining walnut halves. Chill until firm enough to slice.

CHOCOLATE WALNUT TORTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat the egg yolks with half cup of the sugar until well blended, about 2 minutes at high speed in an electric mixer. Beat in the chocolate and fold in half the nuts. Set aside.
• Beat the egg whites with the salt until very softly peaked, then gradually beat in the remaining sugar and continue beating until the egg whites hold firm peaks but are not dry.
• Stir a little of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture, then gently fold in about half the remaining egg whites. Finally fold in the remaining nuts and the rest of the egg whites.
• Spoon the mixture into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan. Place in the oven and bake 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Remove the cake from the oven and turn upside down on a rack or suspend, upside down, over the neck of a bottle, until completely cooled. Use a knife with a thin, stiff blade to loosen the cake from the pan by running the knife carefully and closely along the sides of the pan. Invert the cake onto a serving plate.