Cobweb Cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a Cobweb cake? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Butter can be replaced with margarine. Jam (jam, jam) is suitable for any, according to your taste. Sour cream - any fat content. Take whole condensed milk for the cream, 8.5% fat content. Wash the eggs and dry them with napkins.

2. Step 2:

   

   Let's prepare the dough for cakes. In a separate bowl, rub the sugar with the egg yolks. Melt butter or margarine in any way you like. Cool it slightly.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour the melted butter into the eggs. Add sour cream and mix well.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour in the soda slaked with vinegar or citric acid (to do this, simply dissolve the soda in vinegar). Start pouring flour into the dough in parts. Please note that you may take more or less flour than I do. Focus on the consistency of the dough, not the volume of flour.

5. Step 5:

   

   Rub the dough until smooth. You should get a soft and elastic dough that is well molded and does not stick to your hands.

6. Step 6:

   

   Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. Add cocoa to one part of the dough and knead it well. In total, you should get: one dark, chocolate part of the dough and two white ones. Cover the dishes with lumps of dough with a film and put them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Lubricate the detachable baking dish with butter (I have a mold diameter of 24 cm). Roll out one part of the cooled dough into a layer, then transfer it to the mold, spreading it over the entire circumference of the mold.

8. Step 8:

   

   Spread the dough on top with jam or jam. Peel and chop the walnuts with a knife.

9. Step 9:

   

   Pour a layer of chopped walnuts over the jam.

10. Step 10:

    

    Roll the sausage out of the chocolate part of the dough and divide it into 12 approximately identical pieces.

12. Step 11:

    

    Roll each piece into a ball, then mash it into a flat cake in the palm of your hand. Put the filling in the middle of the tortilla. As you can see, I have dried apricots, but you can put any fresh berries, fruits, dried fruits. Blind the edges of the cake and roll it into a ball again.

13. Step 12:

    

    Place the chocolate balls in a circle on the first cake sprinkled with nuts.

14. Step 13:

    

    Get busy making meringue. Whisk 4 whites into a foam. Continuing to beat, add sugar in small portions. And whisk white at high speeds.

15. Step 14:

    

    Pour the finished meringue into the mold with the dough and smooth it over the entire surface. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking according to your oven. Meringue will rise during baking. If it starts to burn from above, cover the mold with foil. When the cake is ready, remove it from the oven and cool.

16. Step 15:

    

    From the third part of the dough, also bake a cake. Roll it into a layer, transfer it to the mold and level it along the bottom of the mold. Bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes (be guided by your oven). Then remove, cool and soak with syrup mixed with water, or just water.

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    Prepare the cream. To do this, beat the softened butter with condensed milk with a mixer until fluffy. Start collecting the cake. Place the first cake (the one with meringue) on the bottom of a flat dish. Gently smear it with cream on top.

18. Step 17:

    

    Set the second cake (without meringue). Also smear it with cream on top.

19. Step 18:

    

    Prepare the glaze. To do this, melt the chocolate in a water bath. Pour it into a pastry syringe or into a cellophane bag with the end cut off. Draw a spiral on the cake with melted chocolate in a circle from the center to the edges. Then use a toothpick or the end of a teaspoon to draw lines from the edge of the cake to the middle.

20. Step 19:

    

    A gossamer pattern is obtained. The edges of the cake can be decorated with chopped walnuts or crumbs from cakes.

21. Step 20:

    

    Cobweb cake is ready! Bon appetit to everyone!