Mixing Ingredients for Torte Cake

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." Now we're ready to add the dry ingredients. Okay, shut the beater off and I'm going to add just a little bit at a time, because when I add too much it flies all over the place. It's better to see that you even it out, it looks like it's going around, but do it low and you just go around the bowl with the spatula pushing the dry into the wet and you can see how the dough is starting to form. If you have a large batch of dough, other times I'll just do it hand mixing myself. I'll actually get my hands in there and mix it well together. Okay, now I have to raise the speed of the mixer in order to accommodate the thickness of the dough, which is becoming a little bit thick now. "