Notes on a Cupcake: Chocolate Peanut Butter Torte

Peanut butter and chocolate is a combination that I know most people LOVE (unless you don't like peanut butter, that is). I've made Reese's desserts and they were a hit, so I decided to take on a different type of dessert. The torte was basically like a pie...or a mousse cake. The crust was Oreo's and the filling was basically peanut butter and some ingredients with fresh whipped cream folded into it. This resulted in a peanut butter mousse. While this dessert looks a little complicated, it actually isn't that hard to do.

Making the chocolate ganache topping was the one area I struggled with. In one ganache recipe it said to stir the chocolate and heavy cream with a spatula or spoon of some sort. When I did that the ganache just looked like gross, lumpy chocolate. The trick to it (during round #2) is to WISK the ingredients together. I guess the light, fluid motion and gentleness of it helps...who knows. Using the wisk made the ganache come together so much better, and afterwards to apply it I just poured it on top. I had family friends and my sister (who lives in london) over to try it! Based on Ethan's face in the picture below, I think they enjoyed it!

For any peanut butter, mousse, oreo, chocolate loves - this is the PERFECT combination
I used this recipe, http://annies-eats.net/2009/04/10/chocolate-peanut-butter-torte/, for the gist of it, but little things were changed. Regardless, the regular recipe seemed perfect as well

-J