Chocolate walnut cake

9 servings
4 hours

How do I bake a sponge on a chocolate walnut cake? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Chicken eggs should be at room temperature, so get them out of the refrigerator in advance. Take high-quality milk for biscuit preparation according to GOST.

Pour the condensed milk into a suitable container. Drive in the two eggs and stir with a mixer at medium speed until smooth.

Pour in the cocoa powder, sieving it through a strainer. Beat again with a mixer until smooth. Be sure to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Pour parts into the dough, stirring with a silicone spatula. Since flour differs in its properties, it may need a little more or less than indicated. Focus on your desired consistency.

Add soda slaked with lemon juice. Gently stir the dough again. The consistency of the dough should be like thick sour cream.

Take a round shape for a cake with a diameter of 18-21 cm. Line the bottom with high-quality parchment paper. Brush the sides with a piece of butter.

Pour in half the dough. Bake in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Note that everyone has different ovens, because the baking time may differ. Check the biscuit readiness with a wooden skewer. Pierce the biscuit if the skewer came out dry, without sticking dough, then it is ready. Also bake a second biscuit.

These are the two biscuits I got. They have to cool down completely.

Then wrap the cooled cakes in cling film and send them to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

How do I make a chocolate cake cream with walnuts? Prepare the indicated ingredients. Use sour cream of high fat content.

Tip the sour cream back onto the four-fold gauze. We put it in a colander, which is installed on a saucepan. Carefully close sour cream with the ends of the gauze, put a flat plate on top, and some load on it (you can bottle with water). Leave the sour cream to settle in the cold for a few hours (at least 2 hour).

Pour the prunes (I have cured) with boiling water and leave for 1 hour. Then drain, dry prunes with paper towels. Cut it into small pieces.

Grind the walnuts in a blender.

Transfer the settled sour cream to a suitable size container. Pour in the sugar, beat with a mixer to dissolve the sugar crystals.

Add the chopped nuts and finely chopped prunes.

Using a silicone scapula, mix the cream well. It turns out to be thick and very, very tasty!

How do you make chocolate cake icing with walnuts? Prepare the ingredients. I took brown sugar, but I can use ordinary sugar. Cocoa can be replaced with black chocolate.

Pour cocoa and sugar into a saucepan, mix.

Pour in the milk. Cook in a water bath over a low heat, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves.

Add the butter. Keep cooking. The oil should melt and the glaze will become glossy, shiny.

Bring the icing to the boil and remove from the heat. Leave it to cool a little for about 5 minutes.

Start assembling the chocolate cake with walnuts. Remove the biscuit cakes from the refrigerator, remove the film and cut each into 2 parts. There should be 4 cakes. If you baked one biscuit, cut it into three cakes.

Place the first cake on a substrate or cake dish, brush it with cream (about 2 tablespoons), flatten it over the entire surface of the cake. If desired, each cake can be soaked in pre-brewed aromatic coffee, into which a teaspoon of cognac or liqueur can be poured for fragrance.

Cover with a second bark, brush with cream, then lay down the third bark. Top with a fourth cake with a beautiful even cap. Brush the sides of the cake with sour cream, too.

Cover the cake with glaze on top, sprinkle the sides with crushed nuts. Send the cake to the refrigerator to soak for a few hours, or better for the night.

Decorate the cake at your discretion. I laid out a whole prunes, nuts, leaves of fresh mint.