Prune walnut cake

10 servings
2 days

How to make a cake with prunes and walnuts? The first step is to make a biscuit. Prepare all the ingredients for it. Sift the flour through a sieve to saturate it with oxygen.

In a whipping bowl, combine the eggs with the sugar and whisk them at maximum power into a lush and airy mass.

In a separate dish, bring the milk along with the butter to the boil and let the butter melt completely. Alternately introduce flour with soda and milk mixture into the egg mass. gently intervene everything with a whisk, by hand, so that the dough remains fluffy.

Then stir in the cocoa. Cover the bottom of the detachable baking dish with cooking paper and put on a ring. Pour the dough into a tin (20 cm) and place in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 45-60 minutes. Navigate your oven. Cool the finished sponge, then wrap in cling film and put it in the fridge overnight to rest.

Prepare everything necessary for filling before assembling the cake. Butter and curd cheese should be at room temperature. It is advisable to cook boiled condensed milk on your own - it tastes more delicious. Cook the closed jar in boiling water for 2 hours, then cool completely.

Pour boiling water over prunes for 5 minutes. Then drain the water, rinse prunes. And fill it with fragrant alcohol again. Allow to soak for 20-30 minutes. This step is optional. Chop the nuts a little with a knife and fry in a dry pan until the characteristic aroma appears. Pour the roasted nuts onto a plate so that they do not burn on a still hot pan.

To make the cream, mix the soft butter with the cooked condensed milk. Then stir curd cheese into the cream. To do this, you can use a mixer. It will seem that the cream is liquid. Is it normal. In the assembled cake, everything will set well. Set aside 1/3 of the cake coating cream.

Remove prunes from alcohol, dry and finely cut. Stir the chopped nuts with prunes into the remaining 2/3 of the cream.

Cut the lying biscuit into 4 bark. Set aside one bark to sprinkle the cake. Soak the cakes in the syrup. To do this, heat the water with sugar and lemon juice to dissolve the sugar. Then cool the syrup.

The cake is convenient to collect in a ring. Put the first cake, a layer of filling, on the bottom. Then the second cake and another layer of filling.

Top with a third cake and brush a little with a simple cream. Refrigerate the cake for a few hours to freeze.

Remove the frozen cake from the ring using a sharp knife. Brush it on the sides with the deposited cream. Put the leftovers on top.

Grind the deposited bark and sprinkle the cake on the sides.

Nice treat!