Description

Polish chocolate cake
Tender chocolate cake will be the perfect end to a festive meal. For the contest "new year tastes of the planet"

Ingredients

  • Cocoa powder

    2 Tbsp

  • Flour

    2 cup

  • Soda

    0.5 tsp

  • Leavening agent

    0.5 tsp

  • Butter

    125 g

  • Sugar

    3.5 cup

  • Chicken egg

    4 piece

  • Dark chocolate

    400 g

  • Buttermilk

    1 cup

  • Cream

    250 ml

  • Vanilla

    1 tsp

  • Chocolate milk

    150 g

Cooking

step-0
Sift flour with cocoa, add a pinch of salt, baking soda, baking powder. Chocolate (120 g.) melt in a water bath. Beat butter with sugar, still whisking to enter the eggs one by one. Add chocolate, mix well. Chocolate pour into flour mixture, add buttermilk. Mix thoroughly, until smooth. Put the dough in a greased form.
step-1
Biscuit bake at 180 degrees for about an hour. To check readiness of a wooden skewer. Biscuit cool, cut into 3 layers.
step-2
For the glaze: melt 240 g of chocolate in a water bath. Enter the cream and yolks and whisk. Continuing to whisk, add sugar, 2 teaspoons oil, vanilla. Beat mass until smooth, remove from the water bath. To give glaze to cool slightly. Fluff cakes with icing to assemble the cake. Coat the top and sides of cake with leftover frosting. On the finish, sprinkled the cake with chocolate shavings.
step-3
But I decided to make cake chocol. applique. Melt the chocolate (dark, milk and white) in a water bath. On parchment to draw a simple pencil picture is conceived, in this case I painted the face of a tiger. To put the chocolate in pastry bags.(I wrap the bags of parchment). First, cut around the outline (dark chocolate) and complete all parts of picture that should be on top. Glare eyes - white chocolate, eyebrow - milk, to clean for a few minutes in the fridge so the chocolate seized. Then paint the secondary parts: eyes, stripes, nose. Remove again for a few minutes in the fridge. After that fill all the picture of white chocolate. Put into the fridge for half an hour (picture should be well frozen).
step-4
Gently remove the parchment from the picture, overturn it and put on the cake. I have sprinkled the cake with the snow of grated white chocolate.
step-5
In Poland, every Christmas table exactly 12 dishes. And no meat! Typically, this mushroom soup, barley porridge with prunes, gnocchi with butter. Obligatory dish is fish - it is considered a symbol of happiness and prosperity. And for dessert you will be served a slice of famous chocolate cake. Bon appetit!
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