{"id":9572,"date":"2023-03-28T14:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:28:29","slug":"ritz-torte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/ritz-torte.html","title":{"rendered":"Ritz Torte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We were having a discussion at dinner about &#8220;Some things are not what you think they are.&#8221; and Dionne remembered a favorite from the 60&#8217;s.\u00a0 She sent me the recipe.\u00a0 Low and behold, one the internet I found. &#8220;One of the trendiest desserts of the moment is a humble creation of Ritz crackers, pecans, and Cool Whip. A regional favorite dish in Appalachia, it\u2019s called the Ritz Torte, and the recent recipe shared on TikTok by Justin McElroy (@hoopsmcelroy) has been viewed more than 2 million times.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 Ritz crackers, crushed (Use a plastic bag, then you can add the nuts, baking powder and vanilla to the bag to mix.\u00a0 One less bowl to wash!)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp vanilla<\/li>\n<li>1 c nuts chopped (walnuts or pecans).<\/li>\n<li>3 egg whites<\/li>\n<li>1 c sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 c cream, whipped\u00a0 (or cheat with Cool Whip, but it won&#8217;t be as good.)<\/li>\n<li>shredded chocolate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Diretions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven 350\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>Combine crushed crackers, baking powder vanilla and nuts.<\/li>\n<li>Beat egg whites until stiff.\u00a0 (Newer recipe says &#8220;In a mixer, combine the egg whites and beat. You\u2019re just mixing, don\u2019t whip into a meringue. Add in sugar and continue to beat until thick and creamy, but no peaks.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Add sugar, gradually and beat well.<\/li>\n<li>Fold in crumb mixture.<\/li>\n<li>Spread mixture in an oiled 8 inch cake pan. (or 8&#215;8 pan)<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 30 min at 350\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>Cool.<\/li>\n<li>Top with shipped cream.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle with shredded chocolaate.<\/li>\n<li>Refrigerate 6 hours or overnight.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>6-8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0 <\/strong>Dionne Moseley, Vi at Highlands Ranch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were having a discussion at dinner about &#8220;Some things are not what you think they are.&#8221; and Dionne remembered a favorite from the 60&#8217;s.\u00a0 She sent me the recipe.\u00a0 Low and behold, one the internet I found. &#8220;One of the trendiest desserts of the moment is a humble creation of Ritz crackers, pecans, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/ritz-torte.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ritz Torte&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweets-other","tag-vi-highlands-ranch"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@three_star_dave\/110102794090903930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}