Olga Cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Products needed to prepare the dough. The photo shows the volume of products for 2 cakes.

2. Step 2:

   

   Fry the walnuts to a ruddy shade in a dry, hot frying pan.

3. Step 3:

   

   Clean the washed apples from the seeds, cut into thin slices. Add nutmeg, cinnamon, honey and 1 tbsp sugar. Mix and set aside until required.

4. Step 4:

   

   Chop the cooled walnuts (preferably finely).

5. Step 5:

   

   First prepare the dough for the 1st cake. Lightly beat 3 eggs with 1 cup of sugar. It is enough for the sugar and eggs to mix well and the sugar to dissolve a little. You can even refuse to use a mixer and vigorously mix eggs and sugar until completely homogeneous with a whisk or a wooden spoon.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour half of the chopped walnuts into the egg mixture and mix.

7. Step 7:

   

   1 sift a cup of flour through a fine sieve directly into the mixture of sugar and eggs. Knead the dough - it should have the consistency of thick sour cream.

8. Step 8:

   

   Preheat the oven to 180 °C. A detachable mold with a diameter of 24 cm is lubricated with vegetable oil (it is advisable to put a circle of parchment paper on the bottom of the mold, so it will be easier to remove the cake: just turn over the finished cooled cake and carefully remove a layer of parchment paper from it).

9. Step 9:

   

   Pour a quarter of the prepared apples on the bottom of the mold.

11. Step 10:

    

    Fill the apples with half of the dough on top, then pour out another quarter of the apples and fill them with the remaining dough. The surface of the cake should be smooth, and the dough should completely cover the apple slices. You can do it easier, as follows: put half of the total volume of cooked apples on the bottom of the mold, pour the dough on them, gently mix it with the apples. We put the form with the 1st cake in the preheated oven, bake for 25-30 minutes.Cool in the form.

12. Step 11:

    

    When the 1st cake cools down, we take it out of the mold, smear it with cherry jam on top. We knead the dough from the remaining half of the products in exactly the same way as shown in the previous photos and bake the same 2nd cake.As an option: in the dough of the 2nd cake, you can add 1 tbsp. finely ground coffee or half a chopped chocolate bar.

13. Step 12:

    

    You can smear only one cake with jam, or you can, in order to enhance, make the taste of the cake brighter, proceed as follows. In a small saucepan over low heat, melt 100 g of cherry jam. Rub it through a sieve or grind it in a blender until smooth, add 2 tablespoons of water, put it on high heat. With constant stirring, bring the mixture to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Let the mixture cool down a little. We will impregnate both cakes with it.

14. Step 13:

    

    Products for filling and chocolate glaze, as well as for cake decoration.

15. Step 14:

    

    We divide marshmallows into halves. Pour hot water into a glass and, dipping a knife into it, cut each half of the marshmallow into two more parts. Hot water allows you to cut marshmallows smoothly and neatly, and the marshmallow mass does not stick to the knife blade.Then we spread the sliced marshmallows on the cake in one layer.

16. Step 15:

    

    Unsweetened cream is whipped in a food processor with a cream fixator (if they are low in fat)up to density. You can also beat it with a metal whisk, after placing the container with cream on ice or in cold water. Spread the whipped cream on top of the marshmallows, while not forgetting to set aside some of the cream separately to lubricate the sides of the bottom cake cake, and 2 more tablespoons of cream to put them in the chocolate glaze.

17. Step 16:

    

    We break 1.5 chocolate bars into pieces (we leave half of the tiles on the chocolate chips) and put them in a bowl with cream together. Place the bowl on a water bath. The water should be very hot, but not boiling. Melt the chocolate, stirring constantly, and make sure that it mixes evenly with the cream.

18. Step 17:

    

    We put the second cake on top of the cream layer and press it lightly so that the marshmallow layer grabs. If the sides of the biscuit turned out to be uneven and sloppy, they need to be cut off a little. It is best to do this with a sharp knife in a circle, thus forming an even cylinder. The melted chocolate is poured onto the top of the cake and distributed using a spatula heated in hot water. Let the glaze cover the side surface of the upper cake.

19. Step 18:

    

    Unfrozen, pitted, cherries are laid out on the glaze, gently pressing into the chocolate. Let the chocolate freeze for 10 minutes. The sides of the bottom cake are coated in a circle with the remains of cream and sprinkled with chocolate chips. We put the cake in the refrigerator. Before serving, we take it out and cut it. It tastes even better when chilled! Cook and try, you will like it!