Tasty refined pastries are fine addition of a holiday table. The cakes made with addition of cocoa for certain will be to the taste to fans of chocolate. This component impacts to culinary products saturated chocolate relish.
"Brandied Cherries in Chocolate" cake
For preparation of cake according to this recipe it is required:
- 16 eggs; - 500 g of sugar;
- 500 g of flour. For cream: - 80 g of cocoa; - 600 g of a desi; - 6 tablespoons of milk; - 600 g of sugar; - 4 eggs; - 600 g of cherry; - 100 ml of cognac. In 2-3 days prior to preparation of cake fill in tinned cherries (without stones) with cognac or vodka and place in the fridge to infuse.
Separate the whites from the yolks. Cool proteins and shake up in strong foam, add sugar and continue to shake up before its full dissolution. After that it is careful, stiring with a spoon from top to down, pour the flour sifted through a sieve. Well mix everything to uniformity and from the made egg sponge bake a cake layer in previously warmed oven with average heat (180 wasps). Cool a ready biscuit in shape.
For preparation of cream mix cocoa powder with sugar, pour in milk and bring to the boil on small fire. Shake up eggs and, without stopping, pour a thin stream in hot coffee syrup. Cool. Shake up a desi with the cooled-down syrup. Cut the baked biscuit in half and take out by means of a fork from each half a crumb, leaving only "boxes". Grease them with a small amount of cream. Mix a crumb with the wrung-out cherry and cream. Fill with the turned-out mass of "box". Put their one on another, cuts to each other. Decorate cake voluntarily. It is possible just to fill in it with the kindled chocolate. Put ready cake for a couple of hours in the fridge.
Prague cake
To make Prague cake, it is necessary to take: - 2 eggs; - 1 glass of sugar; - 1 glass of sour cream; - ½ banks of the condensed cocoa; - ½ tsps of soda; - 2 glasses of flour. For cream: - ½ banks of the condensed cocoa; - 150 g of a desi. Properly pound granulated sugar with eggs. Then add sour cream, the condensed cocoa, soda and very carefully mix everything before receiving homogeneous mass. Then pour wheat flour and make dough. Grease a fire-resistant form with margarine, lay out in it dough (it has to be on consistence as dense sour cream) and put in an oven on fire a little more average, about 200 wasps, to be baked. Cool a ready cake layer then cut 2-3 more thinly. For preparation of cream shake up the softened desi, adding to it on a tablespoon of the condensed cocoa. Prague cake will turn out much more tasty when in cream cocoa is a lot of. In this case he develops a pronounced chocolate taste. To gain such effect, put in a half banks of the condensed milk intended for cream, 1-2 tablespoons (with top) cocoa powder. Interlay with ready cream cake layers, lay them at each other, miss the mark a surface and sides of cake. It is possible to decorate Prague with grated chocolate and pounded nuts.