People first learned about cakes 2000 years ago. To this day, Italy and Greece are still competing for the title of the country where cakes began to be baked. The fact is that archaeologists find analogs of cakes in the territory of both Ancient Greece and Ancient
Rome. Of course, the cake from Rome and Greece 2000 years ago faintly resembled what we now mean by this name. It was a pastry with beautiful ornamentation. However, in addition to Greece and Italy for the primacy in the manufacture of cakes can compete with the countries of the Middle East. There are also analogues of cakes there.
Let’s prepare a modern cake, which will definitely be to the taste of all guests.
Ingredients of the dough for the cake “Pink Dream”:
- yolks – 4 pcs;
- sugar – 100 g;
- salt – a pinch;
- sour cream – 80 g;
- butter – 150 g;
- flour – 400 g;
- leavening agent – 1 tsp;
- cocoa – 1 tbsp.
Ingredients for the protein layer:
- whites – 4 pcs;
- salt – a pinch;
- sugar – 150 g;
- cherry kisel – 65 g;
- flour – 50 g;
- cherries – 150 g;
- walnuts – 150 g.
Ingredients for the cream:
- cherry sour cream – 65 g;
- sugar – 70 g;
- cornstarch – 20 g;
- milk – 500 ml;
- butter – 200 g.
Preparation of the cake “Pink Dream”:
In a bowl with yolks pour sugar, salt and whisk until the grains of sand dissolve. Put sour cream and melted butter, mix the components.
Combine flour and baking powder, sift the flour into the yolk mass in batches
.
With the second sifting of flour gather the dough into a lump
. Divide the dough
into
two parts. Roll out one part of the dough on a baking tray. Cover the tray with parchment beforehand.
Divide the second part of the dough in two again. Divide one part of the dough into 10 small dough lumps.
Add cocoa to the second part of the dough and knead.
Roll the cocoa part of the dough into small balls, about 10 pieces. Place the chocolate balls on the baking tray.
Lightly dry roast the nuts in a dry frying pan and then chop them. Pour the chopped nuts over the dough. Place the cherries between the chocolate balls.
For the cream, whip the whites with salt, gradually pour sugar. Next, pour the whipped whites into the whipped whites, pour the sour cream and flour, continue to whip at low speed until a homogeneous stable mass.
Put the protein layer on the balls, nuts and cherries
.
Place the dough balls on top of the whites.
Bake the biscuit at 180 degrees for 35-40 minutes. To prepare the cream, mix cherry sour cream with sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan
. Pour milk into the saucepan, bring the mass to thickening on medium heat. Beat the soft butter, gradually pour the slightly cooled cherry mixture into it.
Divide the prepared crust across.
Smear one part of the cake with cream, cover the cream with the second part of the cake.
Smear the top and sides of the cake with cream. Leave the cake for 12 hours in the refrigerator.
You can decorate the cake with cherries, chocolate and other ingredients.
You get a delicious unusual cake “Pink Dream”.
