Bacon Torte (56k Go Home)

[airexurb]

Damn, dude. I had no idea you could throw down like that. That's badass.

Reminds me of a text I get from my wife yesterday....

Me: Wat u want for dinner?
Her: I want a 4 course meal.
Me: U should be pleasantly surprised if you get a 4 INGREDIENT meal.

oh man, he's a really good cook. But its all complicated with him...too much science

[whisk.e.rebellion]

oh man, he's a really good cook. But its all complicated with him...too much science

[airexurb]

oh man, he's a really good cook. But its all complicated with him...too much science

shut your mouth and get back in that kitchen!

[whisk.e.rebellion]

Damn, dude. I had no idea you could throw down like that. That's badass.

Stay tuned. I'm working on pictures and write ups for a "Cooking with whisk.e" thread

[Greg Focker]

I am making my version now. I decided to cook up 12oz of bacon and use all of the resulting grease. Bacon portions were the same, I just ate more bacon and used less butter. Torte leaves the oven in 15 minutes

[whisk.e.rebellion]

I am making my version now. I decided to cook up 12oz of bacon and use all of the resulting grease. Bacon portions were the same, I just ate more bacon and used less butter. Torte leaves the oven in 15 minutes

I look forward to your AAR

[Zoltan]

oh man, he's a really good cook. But its all complicated with him...too much science

shut your mouth and get back in that kitchen!

Role reversal is a mutherfucker! lulz

[Greg Focker]

Changes to original recipe:
-Cooked 12oz bacon, used all bacon greaqse from it (~5oz)
-used 2oz bourbon in the topping
-ate some of the torte the day I cooked it . I was worried some water leaked through the foil. Nope

I will post a longer AAR later, but for now I'll just say this: WIN.

[Greg Focker]

The icing was a little excessive in volume in relation to the torte, but I freely admit I was WAGging and SWAGging this thing due to the highly limited nature of my cousin's kitchen. As in: no wisk, no mixing bowls, and I had to get HIGHLY inventive with what to use for the double boilers. That said, next time I'm going to use less pepper (I had to buy the cayenne pepper, as that was another thing lacking in her kitchen). Also going to make some "whiskey whipped cream" top the whole thing with this time around. Of all the dessert dishes in our big Thanksgiving family get together (~70 people), this one was the first polished off

I am renaming this recipe "Fat Kid Heaven", for obvious reasons. I'm going to cook up a full pound of bacon for v2, in hopes of avoiding using butter for the torte itself at all. I may even cook and eat a second pound in order to forgo butter for any part of this torte Between that and the addition of the whiskey whipped cream, it going to be a tasty, tasty heart-attack-on-a-plate

[airexurb]

That looks like the same amount of chocolate ganache we used on ours. A VERY good friend brought me some coffee-bourbon-awesomeness, and I want to use that next time. I'm thinking we should do one for christmas this year...santa likes bacon, right?

[Dogan]

The icing was a little excessive

What the hell is your malfunction son????? There is no such thing as excessive icing!

[Greg Focker]

The icing was a little excessive

What the hell is your malfunction son????? There is no such thing as excessive icing!

When, despite having put the icing on, thrown the cake into the freezer for a few minutes to firm it up so it wouldn't run off the torte, then added more icing, putting in it the freezer, etc three times (for a total of 4 layers of icing), and you still have icing falling off the torte and running off the plate the torte is on, I officially rule there was too much icing for my torte. It was probably due to an error in measuring the chocolate, but there was definitely too much icing on Fat Kid Heaven v1.0

We shall see about FKH v2.0, now that I'll actually have a scale to measure with.

[Dogan]

The icing was a little excessive

What the hell is your malfunction son????? There is no such thing as excessive icing!

When, despite having put the icing on, thrown the cake into the freezer for a few minutes to firm it up so it wouldn't run off the torte, then added more icing, putting in it the freezer, etc three times (for a total of 4 layers of icing), and you still have icing falling off the torte and running off the plate the torte is on, I officially rule there was too much icing for my torte. It was probably due to an error in measuring the chocolate, but there was definitely too much icing on Fat Kid Heaven v1.0

We shall see about FKH v2.0, now that I'll actually have a scale to measure with.

Try using bacon strips or shredded coconut as a substrate to build the layers on. Or a different icing recipe.

[airexurb]

you probably didnt get a chance to do it because it went so quickly at your house, but this is definitely something that is better the next day. The chocolate became a wonderful shell

[Greg Focker]

you probably didnt get a chance to do it because it went so quickly at your house, but this is definitely something that is better the next day. The chocolate became a wonderful shell

I baked it the day before, but didnt put the chocolate ganache on until the day of. But no worries, FKH v2.0 is starting as we speak

Should I let it set a day and then put on the ganache, or put the ganache on the same day as I bake the torte?

[whisk.e.rebellion]

Should I let it set a day and then put on the ganache, or put the ganache on the same day as I bake the torte?

I put the whole thing together then tossed it in the fridge. Well, the half of it...since we ate about half of it before we could refrigerate it.

[biggcarl]

I, sir, bow to you

[Tendrax]

Well, this was necro'd by a bot, but I'm glad it was. Dear god this looks amazing.

[azstinger]

[gravediggerfour]

How did I miss this.

[Wildeman_13]

How did I miss this.

You obviously aren't as big a fan of Bacon as you claim.

[Greg Focker]

How did I miss this.

NO PROMISES, but I'm going to try to bring an all-bacon-grease,-no-butter batch of this to the June 2012 MilCopp class.

[Kutter_0311]

How did I miss this.

NO PROMISES, but I'm going to try to bring an all-bacon-grease,-no-butter batch of this to the June 2012 MilCopp class.

Shit, now I've gotta find a way to make the class! Guns, guns, & FKH... Where'd I toss that job application...

[SuperBanki]

Oh good lord this looks amazing. I am going to try making this tomorrow. You sir, are amazing.