Sponge cake with custard, walnuts and poppy seeds

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Dough Preparation Products

2. Step 2:

   

   Break 4 eggs into a deep bowl.

3. Step 3:

   

   Beat eggs with sugar, adding a pinch of salt.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add sour cream, mix.

5. Step 5:

   

   Then gradually, in parts, pour in the pre-sifted flour, mixing thoroughly. At the same time, add soda, slaked with vinegar.

6. Step 6:

   

   Divide the dough into 2 parts. In one - add a poppy. In the other - orange peel. Put the dough (it turns out to be quite thick) in 2 pre-prepared molds (oiled and sprinkled with breadcrumbs). Bake 2 cakes in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees. They were baked in my oven for 35-40 minutes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Cool the finished cakes, cut each into 2 parts. They turn out to be low, denser than a sponge cake without fillers, so you can soak them with the following syrup: water + sugar + cognac. (Sugar should be diluted in water until completely dissolved in a saucepan, pour in cognac, bring it almost to a boil and remove from the stove, cool.)

8. Step 8:

   

   Cream products

10. Step 9:

    

    Custard can be started cooking while the cakes are being baked. Sift the flour and, stirring gradually, heat it in a dry frying pan until golden brown. This will give the cream a special flavor, an original nutty taste and a more beautiful color. Then cool the flour.

11. Step 10:

    

    After that, sift the flour again (since lumps may appear in it during warming up in the pan) and mix thoroughly with the eggs.

12. Step 11:

    

    After mixing with flour, the egg mixture acquires a beautiful mustard shade.

13. Step 12:

    

    Boil the milk, add sugar, bring to a boil again and, pouring in a thin stream of egg-flour mass, mix quickly and thoroughly (so that there are no lumps) with a whisk. Put the dishes with the cream on a water bath and, stirring, bring the cream to a thick state. I do not put on a water bath, but use a steel pan with a thick bottom, the cream turns out perfectly in it.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put butter and vanilla in the finished hot cream, mix thoroughly with a whisk, and then cool.

15. Step 14:

    

    We assemble the cake, alternating cakes with poppy seeds and cakes with zest. Layer the cakes with cream, sprinkle with chopped walnuts, pre-fried in a frying pan.

16. Step 15:

    

    Decorate the cake as desired. We prepare tea, coffee and treat ourselves to a cake!