Chocolate sour cream sponge cake with walnuts

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the necessary products according to the list: for the dough – 4 eggs, 150 g of sugar and flour, 4 tbsp cocoa powder, 1 tsp baking powder, for cream – 100 g sour cream, 50 g sugar, vanilla, for impregnation – 80 ml syrup. Walnut kernels – 50 g, they go both into the dough and into the cream.

2. Step 2:

   

   For the mold, take a piece of butter and breadcrumbs.

3. Step 3:

   

   Grease the baking dish with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.

4. Step 4:

   

   Walnut kernels are crushed.

5. Step 5:

   

   Ground nuts are divided into two parts – for dough and for cream.

6. Step 6:

   

   Combine eggs with sugar in a deep container and start whipping.

7. Step 7:

   

   Beat eggs with sugar until the mass increases three times.

8. Step 8:

   

   Then pour a mixture of dry ingredients into the whipped fluffy mass – flour, cocoa powder, baking powder.

9. Step 9:

   

   Mix the mass well, it turns out quite dense.

10. Step 10:

    

    Then add the chopped walnuts.

12. Step 11:

    

    Knead the dough for a minute, you can use a mixer, or you can use a spoon.

13. Step 12:

    

    We spread the chocolate dough into the prepared form, level the surface.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put the dough form in a hot oven and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    After 40 minutes, we take the mold out of the oven, take out the hot cake from it, it will be dense. Let the cake cool on the grill, and then cut into 2 or 3 cakes.

16. Step 15:

    

    We put the cakes for impregnation with slices to the top.

17. Step 16:

    

    Pour syrup over the slices of chocolate cakes and leave them to soak for a few minutes.

18. Step 17:

    

    While the cakes are soaked, we prepare cream – sour cream, combine with sugar, vanilla and chopped nuts, leave a few nuts for sprinkling the cake.

19. Step 18:

    

    Cream cream with nuts whisk with a mixer until the sugar dissolves, 2-3 minutes. The cream will be liquid.

20. Step 19:

    

    Apply sour cream on syrup-soaked slices of cakes.

21. Step 20:

    

    We put the cakes smeared with sour cream on top of each other, grease the whole cake with the remaining cream and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. The finished cake is placed in the refrigerator for better impregnation and solidification.