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Capercaillie's nest cake

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10 servings
7 hours 30 min

Eggs - 3 pcs., Sugar - 280 g, Butter - 250 g, Wheat flour - 600 g, Baking powder - 5 g, Almonds - 40 g, Sour cream - 700 g, Powdered sugar - 200 g, Milk - 60 ml, Cocoa powder - 24 g, Dark chocolate - 50 g

Prepare the ingredients.

Break the eggs into a bowl, beat them with a whisk.

Pour sugar (200 grams) to the eggs, without stopping whipping.

Rub butter (200 grams) on a coarse grater, add to the egg-sugar mixture. Stir.

Sift the flour, mix it with baking powder. Pour a mixture of eggs, butter and sugar into the flour.

Knead the dough. Sprinkle some more flour, if necessary. The dough should be soft and non-sticky.

Divide the dough into walnut-sized balls (about 30 in total). In each ball, put the almond nut inside.

Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, put the balls on it. Place the baking tray in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25 minutes (they should turn golden).

At this time, make the cream. In a bowl, whisk the sour cream with the icing sugar.

For 5-8 pieces, lower the balls into the cream, diaper, keep them in it for 20 minutes.

Place the cream-soaked balls on a wide dish around the edge, forming a nest.

Cut three balls so that they become like eggs. They will be soaked in cream last. Put the crumbs aside for now.

Let's move on to the glaze. Put a saucepan of milk to heat, put cocoa and sugar (80 grams) into it, mix until completely dissolved.

Add the butter (50 gr), mix well to melt faster. Warm the glaze for 2 minutes.

Lay out the nest from all the balls, let it freeze, putting the dish with it in the fridge.

Pour glaze over the nest.

Sprinkle with the crumbs left for later (two-thirds) and crushed chocolate.

Add the remaining crumbs to the rest of the cream, mix. This is necessary for the & quot; eggs & quot; were speckled.

Cut the egg-shaped workpieces into a cream for 15-20 minutes. After that, let the cream freeze, for which remove the & quot; eggs & quot; into the refrigerator.

Lay out & quot; capercaillie eggs & quot; to the center of the nest. The cake can be served to the table, or you can let it still soak for several hours in the refrigerator.