It is unlikely that a sweet cake will leave chocolate cake indifferent, it looks so appetizing. It is not just a dessert, but also a dish that is able to cheer up, energize and energize. Simple recipes for making this delicious sweet are provided in the article.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Chocolate cake is traditionally made with chocolate or cocoa powder. Chocolate should be selected high-quality, cocoa beans in it should be at least 31%.
When choosing cocoa, you need to pay attention to the fact that it has a rich color, slightly bitter taste and chocolate aroma. The fat content should be at least 15%.
Important! Beating products with a mixer to prepare a biscuit, you should remove it from the refrigerator in advance (for 2-3 hours) so that they warm up to room temperature. So the ingredients will be better to beat and pass into a homogeneous mass.
Chocolate Cake Recipes
There are many recipes for chocolate cake. It can be just a sponge cake filled with icing, or a cake consisting of a large number of components. Of course, the dessert itself is delicious if the cakes are simply seasoned with melted chocolate. But the introduction of various additives, for example, different types of nuts, dried fruits, caramel, can make it unusual.
Below you can find simple recipes for making cakes with hazelnuts, walnuts, prunes, caramel, and syrup.
Chocolate cake with hazelnuts
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Important! The readiness of the biscuit can be checked by placing in the center of a wooden skewer or toothpick. If after taking out on its surface there are no traces of batter, then the cake is ready.
Chocolate cake with nuts and prunes
142 hours / 12 hours
Amaretto liquor
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Beat sugar with eggs using a blender.
- Introduce flour with baking powder.
- Melt the butter and pour cocoa into it.
- Combine the egg-sugar mixture with butter.
- Pour the dough into a baking dish with a diameter of 24 cm.
- Place in an oven preheated to + 180 ° С.
- In the meantime, do the cooking of the cream: whip the cream until a dense mass is obtained, separately whip the condensed milk, combine 2 ingredients.
- Pour finely chopped Amaretto prunes.
- The finished biscuit is divided into 4 cakes.
- Each of them is smeared with cream.
- Put prunes and nuts.
- Put the cake in the refrigerator overnight.
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Did you know? Chocolate products have long been available only to wealthy populations. Their mass production began in 1827, when the technology for producing cocoa powder was improved.
Chocolate sponge cake with nuts and caramel
122 hours / 12 hours
vegetable oil
135 ml
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Mix sugar (200 g) with cocoa, butter and water.
- Place on a stove and boil.
- Beat eggs with sugar (50 g).
- Pour the chocolate mass into the eggs.
- Introduce flour, salt, soda, baking powder.
- Beat with a mixer at slow speeds.
- Add the toasted nuts.
- Pour into a baking dish with a diameter of 24 cm.
- Place in a preheated oven to a temperature of + 180 ° C.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Mix cream (100 g) with melted chocolate.
- Beat cream (50 g) with cheese.
- Combine 2 whipped masses.
- Divide the biscuit into 4 cakes.
- Grease the cakes with cream and caramel.
- Put the cake in the refrigerator overnight.
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Did you know? The recipe for one of the most famous chocolate cakes in the world was invented by French confectioner Franz Sacher, when he was only 16 years old, in 1832 the dessert was named after the author - “Sacher”, and its cooking technology is still kept secret.
So, such a beautiful and delicious dessert as a chocolate cake, despite its apparent complexity, is easy to prepare at home. The main thing is to adhere to the cooking technology, choose quality ingredients and do not deviate from their recommended amount.
