Supplies & Utensils for Torte Cake

Series Summary

If Ben Franklin could be cajoled into amending his own words posthumously, he might say that dessert is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Though every culture has its own variation on what qualifies as dessert, sweet foods are an essential part of the human dietary experience. Their relatively minor role as a player in the nutritional pyramid belies their powerful ability to bring a smile to almost anyone’s face. And dessert most of all reminds us of home cooking, of times spent at the kitchen table, of Mom’s secret recipes passed down from Grandma.

In this free dessert cooking class on video, learn how to make two quick and easy torte cake recipes. Our expert will show you how to make both a Linzer torte and an apple and raisin torte. Get step-by-step instructions, including ingredients and utensils needed, how to cream butter, how to put the dough in a pan, how to make a filling crust, how to create a criss-cross pattern, and more. Enjoy these delectable dessert dishes at your earliest convenience.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Andrea Spano and I'm going to be showing you how to make nut dough today from my new book "Not Just Desserts." Okay, so before we start our nut dough there's a few pieces of equipment that you should have on hand before you start out the whole process. Some very simple pieces of equipment; I have a large stainless steel bowl, a medium size bowl, a sifter, measuring cups, I have a large one, I have the individual ones, a little bit of salt I have my little salt shaker there and a hand mixer. You'll need all that before you start your torte. So this way you have the dry ingredients, we're going to be mixing the dry ingredients together, sifting them together and then creaming the margarine and the sugar. Then, we're going to unite everything. So in the next segment that's what we'll be doing I'll show you how to cream the ingredients and what that means."