The cake consists of chocolate and walnut cakes with a delicate cream.
To prepare 2 dark cakes you will need the following ingredients:
–
eggs, 4 pcs;
– salt, a pinch
; – sugar, 4 tbsp
; – flour, 4 tbsp
; – leavening agent, 1 tsp
; – cocoa, 2 tbsp.
For the preparation of the light cake you need to take:
–
whites, 7 pcs;
– salt, a pinch
; – sugar, 12 tbsp
; – flour, 1 tbsp
; – walnuts roasted and chopped, 200 g.
To prepare the cream you need:
–
yolks, 7 pcs;
– powdered sugar, 200 g;
– cornstarch, 5 tbsp
; – butter, 250 g; –
vanilla extract, 2 tsp
; – bananas, 2 pcs;
– lemon juice, 1 tbsp
-500 ml of milk
For soaking the cakes:
–
water, 100 ml;
– sugar, 4 tbsp;
– r@m or other alcog@l, 2 tbsp.
Cooking process
For the dark cakes, separate the whites from the yolks. Start beating the whites with salt, when it turns into foam, add sugar by spoonfuls and beat to a firm and thick foam.
Introduce the yolks one by one and beat into a homogeneous mass.
Mix the flour with baking powder and cocoa, sift and introduce into the dough in batches.
Cover the mold
with
parchment and pour half of the dough
.
Heat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius and bake for 15 minutes.
In the
same way, bake the second cake.
For the light dough, beat the whites with salt, add sugar by spoonfuls and beat to a firm mass.
Sift the flour and mix with chopped nuts, pour
into
the whites in batches and gently mix the mass.
Cover the mold with parchment
and pour the
dough
in.
Bake
for
20 – 25 minutes at 170 degrees C.
For the syrup, combine all the ingredients and cook over low heat for 15 minutes. At the end of boiling add r@m or other alkog@l.
For the cream, whisk powder with yolks and starch
until smooth. Add milk and cook over low heat until thick.
Soften the butter at room temperature, combine with rum and whisk
. Beat the cream and add the butter and alcohol in batches, whisking until fluffy.
Cut the bananas into
pieces and
mix with the cream
,
add lemon juice
.
Assemble the cake in a mold
.
First lay the dark cake, soak in syrup and lay out a part of the cream, cover with light cake, apply cream and put the dark cake.
Remove the form,
cover the cake with cream on
all sides and decorate to taste
.
You can use grated chocolate.
