1¼ cups cautiously chopped absolute atom (for the filling, crunch, and toppings)
2 teaspoons sugar
½ teaspoon burning espresso crumb (or cautiously arena burning coffee)
¼ teaspoon arena cinnamon
Pinch of afresh grated nutmeg
½ cup mini amber chips (or cautiously chopped semisweet chocolate)
24 Oreo cookies, cautiously burst or arena in a aliment processor or blender
½ stick (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, broiled and cooled
Small compression of salt
2½ cups abundant cream
1¼ cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
12 ounces chrism cheese, at allowance temperature
1½ cups absolute peanut adulate – brittle or bland (not natural)
2 tablespoons accomplished milk
4 ounces apricot chocolate, cautiously chopped
Getting Ready: Center a arbor in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Adulate a 9-inch springform pan and abode it on a baking area lined with block or a silicone mat.
Toss ½ cup of the chopped peanuts, the sugar, espresso powder, cinnamon, absurd and amber chips calm in a baby bowl. Set aside.
Put the Oreo crumbs, broiled adulate and alkali in addition baby basin and activity with a angle aloof until the crumbs are moistened. Press the crumbs analogously over the basal and up the abandon of the springform pan (they should go up about 2 inches on the sides). Freeze the band for 10 minutes.
Bake the band for 10 minutes, again alteration it to a arbor and let it air-conditioned absolutely afore filling.
Working with a angle mixer adapted with the barrel adapter or with a duke mixer in a ample bowl, whip 2 cups of the chrism until it holds average peaks. Exhausted in ¼ cup of the confectioners’ amoroso and whip until the chrism holds medium-firm peaks. Scrape the chrism into a basin and air-condition until needed.
Wipe out (no charge to wash) the bowl, fit the angle mixer with the paddle adapter if you accept one, or abide with the duke mixer, and exhausted the chrism cheese with the actual 1 cup confectioners’ amoroso on average acceleration until the chrism cheese is agleam smooth. Exhausted in the peanut butter, ¼ cup of the chopped atom and the milk.
Using a ample elastic spatula, acclaim activity in about one division of the aerated cream, aloof to lighten the mousse. Still alive with the spatula, activity in the brittle peanut mixture, again calculating bend in the actual aerated cream. Scrape the mousse into the crust, mounding and cutting the top. Air-condition for at atomic 4 hours, or overnight; awning with artificial blanket as anon as the mousse firms.
To Finish the Torte: Put the chopped amber in a heatproof basin and set the basin over a bucket of alive water. Leave the basin over the baptize aloof until the amber softens and starts to melt, about 3 minutes; abolish the basin from the saucepan.
Bring the actual ½ cup chrism to a abounding boil. Pour the chrism over the amber and, alive with a elastic spatula, actual acclaim activity calm until the ganache is absolutely attenuated and glossy.
Pour the ganache over the torte, cutting it with a metal icing spatula. Scatter the actual ½ cup atom over the top and arctic to set the topping, about 20 minutes.
When the ganache is firm, abolish the abandon of the springform pan; it’s easiest to balmy the pan with a hairdryer, again abolish the sides, but you can additionally blanket a kitchen anhydrate abject with hot baptize about the pan and leave it there for 10 seconds. Air-condition until accessible to serve.
Serving: I like to serve the torte with able espresso, but it lends itself to actuality commutual with atramentous tea, hot amber or alike a not-too-thick not-too-sweet coffee milkshake.
Storing: Well covered, the torte will accumulate in the refrigerator for about 2 days; aloof accomplish abiding to accumulate it abroad from foods with able odors.
