Brownie chocolate cake at home

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make Brownie Chocolate cake at home? Start cooking with a sponge cake. How to make a biscuit? Prepare the products. Take natural cocoa powder, without additives. A drink like Nesquik won't do. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance, it should become soft. Also, take out the egg and milk in advance so that they warm up to room temperature. Vinegar is needed to quench soda, take 6%.

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   Take a bowl, sift flour and cocoa into it. It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking. Sifting cocoa helps break up lumps and also has a better effect on the quality of baking.

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   Pour sugar, vanilla sugar (I have natural vanilla, so dark) and salt into a bowl.

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   Use a whisk to mix the dry ingredients well.

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   Beat an egg into a bowl. Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush. Add the soft butter.

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   Pour in room temperature milk and vegetable oil. Extinguish the soda with vinegar and add it to a bowl.

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   Stir the dough. I first started stirring with a whisk, but then I took a mixer — this method is much more convenient and faster. The dough should become absolutely smooth and homogeneous.

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   Take a baking dish. Line the bottom with baking parchment. I have a split form with a diameter of 20 cm. Pour the dough into it.

9. Step 9:

   

   Bake the sponge cake in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 155 ° C. The baking time varies from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. After 40 minutes, start checking the biscuit. If the wooden stick came out of it dry, the biscuit is ready. Remove it from the oven and cool completely. My biscuit was baked for 50 minutes.

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    Wrap the completely cooled biscuit in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator overnight. After such a "rest " the biscuit will become softer and more homogeneous. Therefore, it is better to bake the cake in two stages. Bake a biscuit in advance, and the next day already do everything else.

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    Prepare the products for the cream. Mascarpone should be warm, take it out of the refrigerator in advance. But cream, on the contrary, is better whipped cold. Cool them well. The fat content should be at least 30%. Choose high-quality and natural cream. For whipping, it is better to take powdered sugar, the sugar may not completely dissolve in the cream and creak on the teeth. Take dark, high-quality chocolate with a cocoa butter content of at least 50%.

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    How to make cream? Start cooking with the preparation of chocolate. Melt it in any way you can. I put the chocolate broken into pieces in a bowl and melted it in a water bath. Cool the melted chocolate to room temperature.

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    Whisk the cream until thick. How to whip cream correctly? Beat with a mixer at minimum speed, gradually increasing the speed. In the process, add pre-sifted powdered sugar to them. How do I know if the cream is whipped enough? The creamy mass should retain its shape and not spread. At this point, stop whipping. Otherwise, the cream will turn into butter.

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    Add mascarpone to a bowl with cream.

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    Beat the cheese and cream with a mixer at low speed to get a thick homogeneous cream.

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    Add melted chilled chocolate to the creamy mass. Mix it into the cream with a spatula or whisk. The cream is ready.

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    Prepare the impregnation for the cakes. How to make impregnation? Prepare the products. You can buy condensed milk ready-made or cook it yourself. Choose high-quality, proven condensed milk. Without vegetable fats and food additives. The composition should contain only two ingredients: milk and sugar. As a result, the taste and quality of the finished dish will depend on the quality of condensed milk.

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    Heat the milk slightly and pour it into the boiled condensed milk. Mix the ingredients until smooth. I got such a thick condensed milk that I still could not stir it until the end. The impregnation turned out with lumps, which did not affect its taste in any way.

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    Take the biscuit out of the refrigerator. Cut it into three cakes. My biscuit turned out not very high, and the cakes came out thin. Smear each cake with an impregnation of boiled condensed milk.

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    Spread chocolate cream on top of the impregnation. It turns out a lot of cream, you can not regret it.

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    Also smear the top and sides of the cake with cream.

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    Prepare the glaze. Prepare the products for her. Chocolate, as well as for cream, take dark and high-quality.

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    How to make icing? Put all the ingredients for it in a suitable bowl and melt in a water bath until completely homogeneous. Then cool the glaze to room temperature.

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    Pour the chocolate icing over the cake. Put it in the refrigerator for cooling and stabilization.

26. Step 25:

    

    Decorate the finished cake as you wish. You can use chocolate, sweets and cookies, you can use cream, fresh berries and mint. Enjoy your meal!