Ny's Chocolate Torte of Joy

by Nyani-Iisha Martin

Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine
1 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup light corn syrup (I use cane syrup)
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate
Sifted powdered sugar (optional)

1. In a mixing bowl, combine 1 cup flour and 3 tablespoons sugar. Cut in 1/3 cup butter till mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling. Pat into the bottom of a 9x9x2-inch baking pan.
2. For filling, in the mixing bowl, beat the 1 1/4 cups sugar and 3/4 cup butter or margarine till combined. Beat in the corn syrup, vanilla, and egg till just combined.
3. Add the 1 cup flour and the 1/4 cup cocoa alternately with the evaporated milk or cream, beating till just combined (batter will appear slightly curdled). Stir in chips.
4. Pour into crust-lined baking pan. Bake in a 350 oven for about 35 minutes or till the cake is nearly but not quite firm when you shake it. Let cool in pan on wire rack. Remove to serving plate. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if you like.


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