It is hard to find a person who would not like chocolate cakes. It is a dream of true lovers of very sweet products.
There is a day of chocolate cake, officially the celebration is celebrated on January 27. The holiday was invented in America, where there is an incredible love for chocolate pastries. For the
first time, chocolate cakes appeared in the United States
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Then the idea to combine sweet cakes with chocolate cream came to Sara Lee. Her confectionery in the XVIII century was enriched by chocolate desserts.
Let’s try to create a similar confectionery at home and create a chocolate cake.
Ingredients for chocolate cake:
- eggs – 6 pcs;
- salt – a pinch;
- sugar – 165 g;
- flour – 130 g;
- cocoa – 80 g;
- sour cream 20% – 500 g;
- powdered sugar – 100 g;
- mascarpone – 300 g;
- dark chocolate – 30 g;
- milk cream – 30 ml.
Preparation of chocolate cake:
Separate the yolks from the whites beforehand, both parts of the egg will be needed for the recipe. Pour salt to the whites, start beating with a mixer until fluffy. Gradually pour granulated sugar to the whites, continue to beat until the formation of white stable peaks.
To the white mass add yolks, beat until homogeneous
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Pour 40 grams of cocoa into the flour, in two approaches sift the loose products into the egg mixture.
Gently mix the components with a whisk, create a biscuit dough
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Cover a baking tray (40×30 cm) with parchment, transfer the dough to the surface. Using a cake spatula, spread an even layer of batter on the baking tray.
Bake the cake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
At this time you can make the cream – whip sourcream with powdered sugar, add mascarpone cheese to the mixture. The ingredients are whipped with a mixer to a homogeneous consistency.
The baked crust give time to cool, remove the parchment stuck to the bottom of the biscuit.
Cut
off all the uneven parts of the crust, chop the scraps into crumbs.
Pour cocoa into the cream, whisk until chocolate color.
Cut the crust in two, and then cut the biscuit in thickness – creating 4 thin layers. Cover each layer with a layer of cream and assemble the cake.
Be sure to cream the top and sides of the cake, sprinkle the walls with biscuit crumbs.
In the microwave melt chocolate, mix with hot milk cream until the mixture turns into a glaze.
Finally, all you have to do is decorate the cake with the chocolate icing. We also suggest using the leftover cream for decoration, for example, to make pastry roses.
