Dobosh Torte

Description

In Romanian: Tort Dobos

Ingredients

• 10 eggs
• 7 oz / 200 g confectioner's sugar
• 4 oz / 120 g fine flour
• grated peel and juice from 1 lemon
• butter

Filling

• 6 eggs
• 7 oz / 200 g sugar
• 7 oz / 200 g butter
• 6 tablespoons grated chocolate
• 4 tablespoons water

Directions

1. Beat the yolks with the sugar, peel and juice from 1 lemon until creamy.
2. Gradually add the whipped egg whites and flour, gently mixing.
3. Make 10 very thin (like a knife's edge) sheets from the resulting batter.
4. Bake in a buttered rectangular baking pan.
5. When all the sheets are baked and cold, spread cream on them, lay one on top of the other and glaze with caramelized sugar or the same cream as the one used for filling.
6. For the filling, in a pan placed in a larger pan with boiling water set on heat, beat the whole eggs with the sugar until thickened.
7. Remove from heat and add the chocolate melted with 4 tablespoons of water and the butter.
8. Beat everything well until cold.