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    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Cake Recipe & Tutorial

    4KViews Modified: Dec 20, 2023 · Published: Aug 9, 2013
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    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. spreading icing

    When our friends from Minnesota visited last month, we knew that we needed to learn how to make a real decorator cake. We had a great time doing just that!

    Ana specializes in making cakes. She graciously shared some of her tips and secrets with our daughter. It was great sitting around and chatting as we explored the more serious side of making a proper cake.

    Update: You need to know that Ana is now our son’s wife and our dear daughter-in-love!

    First, the girls made us a White Chocolate Raspberry Torte they found at Taste Of Home.

    Here’s the recipe they followed.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Cake

    Total Time = Preparation: 1 hour  and Bake: 30 min. + cooling

    Makes 12 servings

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup Spectrum shortening 100% organic expeller pressed palm oil in place of unhealthy hydrogenated Crisco butter-flavored shortening
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 4 large eggs
    • 1 cup white baking chips, melted and cooled
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 2-1/2 cups cake flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 cup buttermilk
    • FILLING:
    • 2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries
    • 3/4 cup water
    • 1/2 cup sugar
    • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
    • FROSTING:
    • 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
    • 1 cup white baking chips, melted and cooled
    • 1 carton (12 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
    • Fresh raspberries, optional

    Directions

    • Preheat oven to 350°. Line two greased 9-in. round baking pans with waxed paper; grease paper and set aside.
    • In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in melted chips and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder and soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Transfer to prepared pans.
    • Bake 26-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely; gently peel off waxed paper.
    • In a small saucepan, bring raspberries and water to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Press raspberries through a sieve; discard seeds. Cool.
    • In same pan, combine sugar and cornstarch; stir in raspberry puree until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Cool. Spread between cake layers.
    • In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Beat in melted chips; fold in whipped topping. Spread over top and sides of cake. Pipe frosting over top edge of cake and garnish with berries if desired. Store in the refrigerator.

    I just have to share these delightful pictures of the process below.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. Adding white Ghirardelli chocolate

    Instead of nasty hydrogenated heart-unhealthy Crisco shortening, we used Spectrum shortening which is 100% organic expeller-pressed palm oil and quite good for the heart.

    With matching aprons, they set to mixing up all the cake ingredients. There was general anticipation, and an eager and interested audience congregated to watch the proceedings, hoping begging for handouts.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. mixing a cake with cake blender

    So the cakes will easily lift out of the pan when baked, it helps to apply liberal shortening to the bottom and sides, and we used parchment paper cut to fit the bottom.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. preparing round cake pans by buttering sides and parchment paper cut to fit

    The anticipation was growing at this stage…

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. pouring cake batter into cake pans,

    Doesn’t this look amazing? It’s a bit like the molten lava bubbling up in the crater of a volcano!

    (Note: in our experience cake humps in the middle, but this sunk. Try adding more batter in the middle before you bake.)

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. 2 round cake pans for layer cake

    There is an amazing red raspberry filling for between the layers starting with our own frozen raspberries from last year’s crop.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. red raspberries for the filling between layers

    You cook it down and sweeten it. The seeds are then strained out before spreading it between layers! Isn’t the color heavenly?

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. The red raspberry glaze for tort layer cake

    Some trimming may be necessary to make the layers lay flat…

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. trimming the layers so they lay flat

    If you love an intense true raspberry flavor, this will make your mouth water!

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. Spreading the raspberry glaze
    Getting it all together for the frosting…

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. 2-tier layer cake on cake platter

    I learned the difference between frosting and icing: “Frosting is what you do to a cake; icing is what you do to a doughnut”, although there are also regional differences in definition.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. mixing the cake frosting

    Ana used her own special recipe for the healthy honey-sweetened fluffy frosting. This is amazing frosting! I have often thought how nice it would be to find a healthy frosting that looked and tasted like those not-very-healthy frostings. And we have found it.

    Come back again for the healthy honey-sweetened fluffy frosting recipe in Part 2 next week.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. Ana spreading icing

    So pretty! Amy Joy’s photo skills captured these beautifully despite the rapidly approaching dusk. An edging of parchment paper was added under the cake to keep the doily clean.

    We were all thinking, “Make it thicker, please.”

    Now for the special touches!

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. Adding swirls and special touches to frost a cake with icing

    We collaborated to come up with a design beautiful finishing presentation.

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. Adding raspberries to dress the torte

    Almost too pretty to eat! Almost…

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. The finished white chocolate raspberry torte on doily

    Thank you, Ana, for being an excellent teacher! This is one delicious cake! With that big glass of raw milk, it was just perfect!

    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. A slice of white chocolate raspberry torte

     “Let them eat cake!” ~Marie Antoinette

    Come back next week for Part 2, in which I share a healthier version of frosting – Ana’s Honey Sweetened Frosting.

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    White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Recipe & Tutorial. Making a white frosted, white chocolate torte with raspberries

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    1. Toni

      August 09, 2013 at 8:02 pm

      Mmm, the cake looks delicious, and the photography is perfect.
      Those Country French print aprons are beautiful. I have the same print in blue on the walls and curtains in my kitchen.

      Reply
    2. A Mama's Story

      August 09, 2013 at 9:03 pm

      This looks delightful and very yummy!!!

      Reply
    3. Jedidja

      August 10, 2013 at 6:21 am

      I love the beautiful photo! How can I make such a cake 🙂

      Reply
    4. Jane

      August 10, 2013 at 9:21 am

      I love that! Your daughter is so lucky to have you for a mom! Her apron is so pretty too……………

      Reply
    5. Pamela

      August 10, 2013 at 12:12 pm

      The cake looks delicious, but what touched my heart was the underlying joy of friendship. The pictures are amazing, too.

      Reply
    6. Shannon

      August 10, 2013 at 6:39 pm

      It looks both lovely and delicious! Oh my, I’m craving cake now. 🙂

      And I love the toile aprons — they turned out beautifully!

      Blessings,
      Shannon

      Reply
      • Jacqueline

        August 10, 2013 at 11:08 pm

        Shannon, I will tell B!!! Thank you for the delightful pattern. They did turn out so well, thanks to YOU 🙂 She has always been so blessed by you, and we were talking of your swimming outfit today 🙂 So you have been an encouragement to the both of us.

        Reply
    7. Senka

      August 13, 2013 at 8:03 am

      Hi,
      We’ve recently launched the website RecipesUS.com. It’s a search engine that aims to gather all the best recipes from US websites and blogs in one place. RecipesUS.com is part of the world’s second largest family of recipe sites, with sites in 37 countries and hundreds of thousands of visitors every week. We’ve noticed that you have a lot of great looking recipes on your blog that we would love to feature on our site. To read more about how it all works and to sign up with your blog, please visit: http://recipesus.com or send us an email on [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

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