Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to bake a sponge cake on a chocolate cake with walnuts? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Chicken eggs should be at room temperature, so take them out of the refrigerator in advance. Condensed milk for making a biscuit, take high-quality according to GOST.
Step 2:
Pour condensed milk into a suitable container. Beat in two eggs and mix with a mixer on medium speed until smooth.
Step 3:
Pour in the cocoa powder by sifting it through a strainer. Beat again with a mixer until smooth. Be sure to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Pour into the dough in parts, stirring with a silicone spatula. Since flour differs in its properties, it may need a little more or less than indicated. Focus on the desired consistency.
Step 4:
Add soda, slaked with lemon juice. Again, gently mix the dough. The consistency of the dough should be like thick sour cream.
Step 5:
Take a round cake mold with a diameter of 18-21 cm. Cover the bottom with high-quality parchment paper. Brush the sides with a piece of butter.
Step 6:
Pour in half of the dough. Bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for 25-30 minutes. Note that everyone's ovens are different, because the baking time may vary. Check the readiness of the biscuit with a wooden skewer. Pierce the sponge cake, if the skewer came out dry, without sticking dough, then it's ready. Also bake a second biscuit.
Step 7:
These are the two biscuits I got. They should cool down completely.
Step 8:
Then wrap the cooled cakes in plastic wrap and send them to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
Step 9:
How to make chocolate cake cream with walnuts? Prepare the specified ingredients. Use high-fat sour cream.
Step 10:
Fold the sour cream onto the folded gauze. We put it in a colander, which is installed on a saucepan. Carefully close the ends of the gauze with sour cream, put a flat plate on top, and some kind of cargo on it (you can use a bottle of water). Leave the sour cream to settle in the cold for several hours (at least 2 hours).
Step 11:
Prunes (I have dried) pour boiling water and leave for 1 hour. Then drain the water, dry the prunes with paper towels. Cut it into small pieces.
Step 12:
Chop walnuts in a blender.
Step 13:
Transfer the settled sour cream to a suitable-sized container. Pour in the sugar, beat with a mixer so that the sugar crystals dissolve.
Step 14:
Add chopped nuts and finely chopped prunes.
Step 15:
Using a silicone spatula, mix the cream well. It turns out to be thick and very, very tasty!
Step 16:
How to make icing for chocolate cake with walnuts? Prepare the ingredients. I took brown sugar, but you can use regular sugar. Cocoa can be replaced with dark chocolate.
Step 17:
Pour cocoa and sugar into a saucepan, mix.
Step 18:
Pour in the milk. Cook in a water bath over low heat, stirring constantly, until the sugar dissolves.
Step 19:
Add butter. Keep cooking. The butter should melt and the glaze will become glossy, shiny.
Step 20:
Bring the glaze to a boil and remove from heat. Leave it to cool slightly for about 5 minutes.
Step 21:
Start assembling the chocolate cake with walnuts. Remove the sponge cakes from the refrigerator, remove the film and cut each into 2 parts. You should get 4 cakes. If you baked one biscuit, cut it into three cakes.
Step 22:
Put the first cake on a substrate or a cake dish, smear it with cream (about 2 tablespoons), smooth it over the entire surface of the cake. If desired, each cake can be soaked with pre-brewed aromatic coffee, into which a teaspoon of cognac or liqueur can be poured for flavor.
Step 23:
Cover with the second cake, smear with cream, then lay the third cake. Put the fourth cake on top with a beautiful even cap. The sides of the cake are also smeared with sour cream.
Step 24:
Cover the cake with icing on top, sprinkle the sides with chopped nuts. Send the cake to the refrigerator to soak for several hours, preferably overnight.
Step 25:
Decorate the cake at your discretion. I laid out a whole prune, nuts, fresh mint leaves.
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.
All the secrets of making a tall, beautiful, lush sponge cake read the article about the biscuit dough .
Is it possible to replace baking powder with soda, how to add them correctly so that the baking is lush, how to avoid an unpleasant soda taste and much more, read the article "Baking powder or baking soda - which is better?"
Calorie content of the products possible in the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Walnuts - 650 kcal/100g
- Black Walnut English Walnut - 628 kcal/100g
- Black Persian Walnut - 651 kcal/100g
- Walnut oil - 925 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364 kcal/100g
- Flour krupchatka - 348 kcal/100g
- Flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Condensed milk with sugar - 324 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Prunes - 227 kcal/100g
- Cocoa powder - 374 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Baking soda - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
