Chocolate cake without baking

8 servings
5 hours

It's the most delicious non-baked cake I've tasted! The filling is tender, not cloying, rich chocolate. I will definitely cook more!

How to make a chocolate cake without baking? Prepare the products. Primarily for the base. Take shortbread cookies, such as Jubilee, K coffee, Melted milk. Choose good quality butter that meets GOST, without vegetable additives. Cocoa should also be natural, a Nesquik-type drink will not work.

Crush the cookies into crumbs in any way convenient for you. A meat grinder, a blender or a regular rolling pin, as I did. To do this, fold the cookies into a dense bag and properly beat them with a rolling pin. It should be a homogeneous fine crumb.

Melt the butter in any convenient way. I drowned in the microwave. Read about this and other ways at the end of the recipe.

Add cocoa to the sand crumb, mix.

Pour melted butter into the crumb and mix until loose, wet sand.

Take a baking tin, I have an 18cm ring, I made the bottom from foil. For strength, he installed the entire structure on the bottom from a detachable shape. Pour a mass of biscuits into the tin and use a flat-bottomed glass to form the bottom and sides of the cake. Put the base in the refrigerator, it will just set while you cook the filling.

Prepare the products for filling. Take cheese like Philadelphia, Kremette, Almette. Cream with a fat content of at least 33%, less fatty will not rise. Cool them well before starting cooking. Chocolate is better dark, with a cocoa content of 55%. I gave the minimum amount of icing sugar, you can add to your taste.

First of all, melt the chocolate. You can in the microwave, you can in a water bath. To do this, boil the water in a saucepan, put a bowl of chocolate on top. It is better if the bottom does not touch the water. Make the heating small, the water should not boil much. As soon as the chocolate starts to melt, actively mix it until all the pieces have melted. Then remove the bowl from the bath and leave to cool.

Put the cheese in another bowl. Beat it with a mixer at low speeds, pouring powder in portions while doing so.

Pour melted chocolate into the cheese mass, stir it in first also with a mixer, then with a spatula.

Beat the chilled cream to strong peaks.

Add the whipped cream to the cheese and chocolate mix. With neat movements, stir them in with a spatula until lush, smooth.

Remove the base for the cake from the refrigerator and put the filling in it. Flatten the top with a spoon. Put the cake in the fridge for at least 4 hours, better all night.

Release the finished cake from the tin and transfer to a serving plate. It cuts perfectly and doesn't flow. Serve the cake to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Butter can be melted in a microwave or in a water bath. How to melt butter in the microwave? Cut the butter into small pieces and place in a special container. To prevent oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest capacity or in defrosting mode. In the beginning, five seconds is enough. Next, if the oil has not yet melted, reinstall for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process multiple times to the desired result. How to melt oil correctly in a water bath? Two vessels of different diameters will be needed. Pour water into a large one and place on the stove. Install a smaller container on top so as to immerse it in water about half. Put the sliced butter in it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil lightly to speed up the process. Once the oil pieces have completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.

How to beat cream correctly? It is important that the cream is fat, at least 33%. Whipping utensils and the cream itself should be cold, hold them for at least 1-2 hours in the fridge. Beat with a mixer at minimum RPM, gradually increasing the speed. How do you know that the cream is whipped enough? The cream mass should maintain its shape and not spread. Stop whipping at this point. Otherwise, the cream will turn into oil.

Important! Shape size should match the number of ingredients. If you do not have a shape suitable for the recipe diameter or want to bake a pie or cake of a larger or smaller size, an article on how to choose the shape of the desired diameter will help you make the right calculations and make no mistake.