Cake making is a creative process that can be customized to suit your preferences and ingredients. There are a few general steps that will help you prepare a delicious cake. For example, choosing a recipe. The cake recipe should suit your taste preferences and culinary skill level.
Preparing the ingredients is also an important step in making a cake. It is worth making sure that all the necessary ingredients are available and ready to use.
It is important to follow the recipe and take into account the peculiarities of each stage of preparation to get the desired result. Also, do not forget about safety when working with hot ovens and sharp knives
.Let’s prepare a Venus cake with a moist sponge cake.
Ingredients for the cream:
- milk – 400 ml;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- sugar – 250 ml;
- starch – 3 tbsp;
- vanillin – a pinch;
- butter – 150 g.
Ingredients for the dough:
- eggs – 4 pcs;
- sugar – 250 ml;
- kefir – 375 g;
- vegetable oil -70 ml;
- flour – 280 g;
- baking soda – 1 tsp;
- salt – a pinch;
- vanillin – a pinch;
- cocoa – 2 tbsp.
Preparation of Venus cake:
Heat milk in a saucepan, break eggs in a bowl, pour sugar, starch and vanillin, whisk. Pour 50 ml of warm milk into the egg mixture, stir.
Pour the egg mixture into the hot milk in a thin stream, whisk
.
Bring the mixture to a thickening, stirring constantly.
Wait until the custard base cools slightly, pour butter into it. Mix the butter with the custard base, put it in a separate container and cover with cling film.
Warm up the kefir for the dough just above room temperature
.
In a separate bowl, break the eggs, mix with vanilla and sugar, beat to a lush
mass. Pour into the egg mass vegetable oil and warm kefir, sift ⅓ of the flour, soda and salt, knead the dough.
Gradually pour the rest of the flour into the dough, leaving 20-30 grams.
Divide the homogeneous thick dough into two equal parts. Sift cocoa into one part of the dough and the rest of the flour into the other.
Cover a baking tray with parchment, pour the white dough onto it and bake at 190 degrees for 6-7 minutes. Bake the chocolate crust in the same way.
Leave the crusts to cool under a towel. Trim the uneven edges of the crusts, chop them to fine crumbs. Smear
the chocolate crust with cream, cover with white crust
.
Spread a thinner layer of cream on top of the white cake and sprinkle with chocolate chips.
You get a beautiful tender Venus cake. It is perfect for any tea party and will replace a lot of bought cakes.
