Chocolate cake is considered as a coveted dessert for most of the children around the world. This cake combines the sweetest and most delicious ingredients – sugar, cream and chocolate. However, when was the first chocolate cake born?
There is no true date for the emergence of chocolate cake cooking. Some chefs lean toward the story that chocolate cake was first made for Napoleon Bonaparte’s wife Josephine. Other chefs say that the recipe for chocolate cake belongs to the Americans.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to find out who was the first to make chocolate cake.
Let’s create a beautiful chocolate cake at home.
Ingredients of sponge cake for chocolate cake:
- Eggs – 4 pcs;
- Sugar – 120 g;
- Sour cream – 80 g;
- Vegetable oil – 100 g;
- Flour – 175 g;
- Cocoa – 55 g;
- Baking powder – 2.5 tsp;
- Salt – a pinch.
Ingredients for the cream:
- Cream cheese – 400 g;
- Sour cream – 100 g;
- Cocoa – 55 g;
- Condensed milk – 250 g;
- Water – 100 g;
- Sugar – 50 g;
- Brandy – 20 g;
- Dark chocolate – 100 g;
- Milk – 40 g;
- Butter – 60 g.
Preparation of chocolate cake:
In a bowl break eggs, pour sugar, add sour cream and vegetable oil, beat with a mixer until homogeneous
.Mix flour with cocoa, baking powder and salt, sift into the egg mixture.Knead
biscuit dough without lumps
.
Cover the baking tray with parchment, pour the dough on the surface and spread it evenly on the bottom.
Bake the biscuit at 200 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Remove uneven edges from the biscuit, make biscuit crumbs from the scraps.
Divide the biscuit into 3 equal rectangular cakes. For the cream, mix cream cheese, sour cream, condensed milk, sift cocoa to the
ingredients. Mix the ingredients with a mixer
.
Pour water and sugar into a saucepan, bring to a boil and cook the syrup for 2-3 minutes. Pour the syrup into a cup and mix with brandy.
Soak
the cakes in this syrup
. Spread the cream on the 2 soaked cakes to create a cake.
Cover the last layer of cream with a cake without cream. Cover
the sides and top of the cake with cream.
Seal the sides of the cake in parchment. Mix chocolate, butter and milk in a bowl and melt. Cover the top of the cake with the glaze.
Leave the cake in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with biscuit crumbs.
You can decorate the top of the cake with icing from a pastry bag. It turns out to be a perfect chocolate cake.
