Spider's web cake

16 servings
2 hours

Unusual and at the same time easy to prepare - Spider's Web cake. From the appearance of the cake, no one will immediately understand what lies inside, it looks like ordinary sand cakes with a layer of meringue. But inside is a completely unexpected filling! The meringue layer is complemented by an insert of chocolate balls with berry filling! You can choose berries to your taste, while taking into account that you will see (jam, jam) should be combined to taste with your berries. If you use cherries, then, of course, it is better to take cherry jam. Instead of berries, I used dried apricot and apricot jam syrup. Be sure to try making Spider's Web cake! Be prepared for the fact that flour may be needed more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

How to make a Spider's Web cake? Prepare the right ingredients. You can replace butter with margarine. Anything to your liking will work here (jam, jam). Sour cream - any fat content. Take the condensed milk for the cream whole, 8. 5% fat. Wash the eggs and dry with napkins.

Let's start preparing dough for cakes. In a separate bowl, mash the sugar with the egg yolks. Melt butter or margarine in any way that suits you. Cool it down slightly.

Pour the melted butter into the eggs. Add the sour cream and mix well.

Pour in the soda slaked with vinegar or citric acid (for this, simply dissolve the soda in vinegar). Start pouring parts of the flour into the dough. Note that you may have more or less flour than I do. Focus on the consistency of the dough, not the volume of flour.

Wipe the dough until smooth. You should get a soft and elastic dough that molds well and does not stick to your hands.

Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. Add cocoa to one part of the dough and knead it well. In total, you should succeed: one dark, chocolate part of the dough and two white ones. Cover the dishes with clumps of dough with film and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Grease a detachable baking tin with oil (I have a shape diameter of 24cm). Roll one part of the chilled dough into the formation, then transfer it to the mold, distributing it around the entire circumference of the mold.

Rinse the dough on top with a peep or jam. Peel and crush walnuts with a knife.

Pour a layer of crushed walnuts over the jam.

From the chocolate part of the dough, roll the sausage and divide it into 12 roughly identical pieces.

Roll each piece into a ball, then mash in the palm of your hand into a tortilla. Put the filling in the middle of the cake. I have, as you can see, dried apricots, but you can put any fresh berries, fruits, dried fruits. Blind the edges of the tortilla and roll it back into a balloon.

Place the chocolate balls in a circle on the first bark sprinkled with nuts.

Do some meringue cooking. Beat 4 squirrels into a foam. Continuing to beat, add sugar in small portions. And beat the good at high speeds.

Pour the finished meringue into the dough tin and flatten all over. Put the bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking by your oven. The meringue will rise while baking. If it starts to burn on top, cover the shape with foil. When the cake is ready, remove it from the oven and cool.

From the third part of the dough, also bake the cake. Roll it out into the formation, transfer it into the mold and flatten it along the bottom of the mold. Bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes (orient through your oven). Then remove, cool and soak in syrup mixed with water, or just water.

Make the cream. To do this, whisk the softened butter with the condensed butter with a mixer until fluffy. Start collecting the cake. Lay the first cake (the one with meringue) on the bottom of a flat dish. Gently brush it with cream on top.

Install the second bark (without meringue). Also rinse it on top with cream.

Prepare the icing. To do this, melt the chocolate in a water bath. Pour it into a confectionery syringe or into a cellophane bag with the end cut off. Draw a spiral from center to edges on the cake with melted chocolate in a circle. Then, with a toothpick or end of a teaspoon, draw lines from the edge of the cake to the middle.

It turns out a drawing - a web. The edges of the cake can be decorated with crushed walnuts or crumbs from the cakes.

Spider's Web cake is ready! Enjoy everyone's appetite!