Chocolate cakes are a classic of confectionery art. These cakes tend to appear in all TV series and movies, epitomizing the sweet life. However, chocolate cakes were not always popular.
More precisely, the relevance of cakes emerged around the 18th century. That’s when chocolate became more accessible to confectioners. People could experiment more with cocoa, which allowed for a revolution in the confectionery art.
Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine a cake department in stores without chocolate desserts
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Only a homemade cake can be better than a store-bought cake. Let’s prepare a chocolate cake in the kitchen.
Ingredients for chocolate cake:
- cookies – 100 g;
- bitter cocoa – tsp;
- butter – 40 g;
- milk – 125 ml;
- 70% dark chocolate – 180 g
- cream – 180 ml;
- whipped cream – 130 ml;
- chocolate – 100 g.
Preparation of chocolate cake:
Grind the cookies in a blender until crumbly. Pour the bitter cocoa to the crumbs. Melt butter and add to the cocoa and cookie mixture, mix thoroughly.
Tamp the cookies in a pastry ring
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Pour milk into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the dark chocolate to the milk and mix until glaze forms.
In a separate bowl, whip the cream until creamy
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Pour the chocolate coating into the cream and mix thoroughly.
Spread the chocolate cream over the tamped cookies in the pastry mold.
Bring the whipped cream to a boil and add the milk chocolate to it, mix until the bar is dissolved in the cream.
Pour the glaze over the cream layer of the cake, spreading it evenly over the surface.
Put the cake in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours.
After cooking the cake can be sprinkled with chocolate chips.
This is a perfect homemade chocolate cake without baking sponge cake.
