Making the classic "CHOCOTORTA"

[Eze_aguzin]

Hello all! This it’s my first food post and I want to share with you a recipe of one of my favorite dessert it’s call “chocotorta”, it’s a classical Argentina dessert and for my opinion it’s amazing and it’s had a delicious flavor. This dessert it’s for sweets lovers and it’s so easy to make.

This it’s perfect to make on this time that we have to stay at home so, what better way to be at home than cooking new things?

Ingredients

• 600 grams of milk caramel (dulce de leche)
• 600 grams of cream cheese
• Chocolate cookies 3 packages (700 grams)
• Milk or cappuccino
• Irish cream liqueur (optional)
• Here in Argentina we have a chocolate cookie brand it’s calls “chocolinas”, but you can use other brand of cookies
• We need a quadrangular or rectangular tray, this it’s where the cake will go

Preparation

1. First you need a bowl, put the milk caramel with the cream cheese and mix with a spoon or with a fork until a consistent paste is achieved, if you want you can add some chocolate chips to this paste so we have some extra flavor and a different consistence
   
2. In a mug put milk and add a little of Irish cream liqueur (I used Baileys), if you like with cappuccino it’s the same add a little of Irish cream liqueur and you have to let it cool a little, this liquor will give the cookies some extra flavor, if you don’t like with liqueur don’t use, it’s optional
   
3. If you like the cookies to be a little softer, put the cookies dip in the milk, no too much time, enough for the cookie to soak if you let much time the cookie will break, then put the cookies in the tray forming a layer, also if you don’t want to dip the cookies in the milk you can put the cookies in the tray forming a layer and then with a basting brush you can wet the cookies with the milk
   
4. Once we form the layer of cookies, sparse the mixture (that you did in the first step) until we cover the layer of cookies, carefully that the cookies don’t move, then put another layer of cookies and continue until you are satisfied with the height of the cake
   
5. Once you put the last layer of cookies, to finish the cake we have different options, first option; add another layer of mixture and with the cookies that are left you can crush them and spread them over the mixture, another option is prepare a chocolate mousse and spread over the layer of cookies, also you can melt chocolate and add to the top of the cookies, choose the one you like the most
   
6. Put the cake in the refrigerator at least 5 to 6 hours

I hope you liked the recipe, if you made the chocotorta, let me know if you liked it and if you have any questions let me know in the comments. Thanks for reading!

[Melissa_Langlois]

@Eze_aguzin Thanks for sharing the recipe. Next time I’ll go grocery shopping, I’ll try to find some chocolate cookie that would fit and I’ll make it. Do you prefer the recipe with cappuccino or milk? And when you’re making it with the cappuccino, is the coffee taste strong?

[Eze_aguzin]

Hi @Melissa_Langlois honestly I prefer both with milk or cappuccino hahah my cousin made the cookies with cappuccino and it’s delicious too, she didn’t prepare a strong cappuccino, she made soft, some people don’t like cappuccino so they made with milk. If you do with regular coffee it will be strong flavor

[SarveswarB]

Thank you @Eze_aguzin for sharing such a beautiful picture of your chocotorta.

[Melissa_Langlois]

@Eze_aguzin I’ll try them both then, but I’ll start with the cappuccino