Chocolate cake is the love of any sweet tooth. Such a dessert involuntarily causes increased salivation and a strong desire to eat it. So what's the deal? It remains only to cook!
Homemade Chocolate Cake - General Cooking Principles
Chocolate cakes can be prepared from different cakes: biscuit, sand, waffle puff. You can cook a dessert without cakes at all, using the curd mass. Or take as a basis gingerbread cookies, cookies or any other flour products.
Basic principles for making chocolate cakes:
1. Cakes after baking always cool to a cold state. Otherwise, the cream will leak.
2. Chocolate is always melted before being added to the dough, cream or for glaze, but also cooled. It is better not to use hot mass, this will negatively affect the dessert.
3. After lubrication, the cake is always left for a while for impregnation, but you need to keep it in the refrigerator, since the shelf life of cream products is short and they can easily be poisoned.
4. Sponge cakes often require impregnation. Syrups and compotes use only chilled.
5. Instead of chocolate, cocoa powder can be added to desserts, but before use it is always sieved, lumps in the liquid mass diverge poorly.
To decorate chocolate cakes, you can use icing, various creams, mastic. Or use simple sprinkles: coconut flakes, nuts, biscuit or shortbread crumbs.
Chocolate cake: a simple recipe from a classic biscuit
To make homemade chocolate cake you will need an ordinary egg biscuit. Instead of cream, Nutella chocolate paste is used, one can is enough. You can take an analogue, a dessert with nuts will do, it will also be delicious.
Ingredients
• eggs 4 pcs.;
• cocoa one spoon;
• 2/3 Art. Sahara;
• 1 tbsp. flour.
For filling:
• 1 can of pasta;
• 0.5 tbsp. Sahara.
Cooking
1. Break four eggs into a bowl, lower the mixer, beat until foam for about three minutes. Then, in small portions, gradually add sugar, whisk without ceasing.
2. As soon as the egg mass with sugar becomes white, lush, no slurry remains at the bottom of the bowl, you can pour a glass of sifted flour from cocoa.
3. Stir. Pour the chocolate dough into a detachable pan with a covered bottom. Put in a preheated oven, bring to readiness at 180. Cool the biscuit well.
4. From sugar and half a glass of water, boil the syrup. If desired, you can add vanilla or cognac, rum to it. Cooling down.
5. Cut the cooled cake lengthwise into 2 layers.
6. Slightly spill the lower part, half of the syrup should go. Grease with chocolate paste.
7. Cover with the second part of the cake, also sprinkle with syrup. The biscuit will swallow it like a sponge.
8. Coat the whole cake with nutella, including the sides. Cool for 3 hours.
Homemade chocolate cake "Gentle"
Another variant of chocolate biscuit cake. A simple recipe for cake that always comes out. It can be cut into 2 or 3 parts, depending on the diameter of the mold used.
Ingredients
• 140 grams of flour;
• three tbsp. l refined oils .;
• 180 grams of sugar;
• four eggs;
• 35 g of cocoa;
• 1 tsp coffee;
• 0.5 tsp; ripper;
• four tbsp. l boiling water.
Cream:
• a can of condensed milk;
• chocolate bar;
• 120 g of oil.
Cooking
1. Add a pinch of salt to the eggs, beat four minutes until foam and add granulated sugar in four doses. Beat for about four minutes.
2. Combine the cocoa with flour, throw the cultivator and sift it together.
3. Pour the prepared flour in two doses, stir. It is better to use a wide spatula.
4. Now pour the vegetable oil.
5. Dissolve coffee in boiling water, quickly stir and season the dough. We make several movements with the spatula, overflow into the form.
6. Biscuit with coffee is baked for about 35 minutes. at a temperature of 180. Then, carefully remove the cake from the oven, cool, remove from the mold, cut.
7. Beat softened butter. Melt the chocolate, cool, but do not let it harden. Combine all three ingredients of the cream, stir.
8. Lubricate cakes, this biscuit is additionally impregnated with syrup. Decorate to your taste.
Chocolate cake: a simple recipe without baking
A recipe for homemade shortbread chocolate cake. You can take vanilla or chocolate, which is more like.
Ingredients
• 650 g of cookies;
• 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
• 0.5 chocolates;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 250 ml of pure water (milk);
• 150 g of oil;
• 100 g of nuts.
Cooking
1. Cook the chocolate syrup. To do this, first mix cocoa with sugar, then dilute with water, but it is better to use milk. It will turn out tastier with him.
2. Boil the syrup, remove from the stove. Add pieces of chocolate, stir. We put soft butter, stir the mass until all the pieces are dissolved. We are leaving.
3. While the syrup cools, crumble the cookies into small pieces.
4. Add the syrup, stir. We shift in a detachable form or in a bowl covered with cling film. The remaining syrup from the bottom of the bowl is simply poured on top.
5. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that the cookies are saturated, the structure of the dessert has strengthened.
6. Turn over onto a flat plate, remove the form or bowl, cover with chopped nuts. You can use coconut shavings, poppy seeds, chocolate icing for decoration.
Homemade Truffle Chocolate Cake
The recipe for a chic homemade chocolate cake for the festive table. The dessert is exquisite, beautiful, with a deep, rich taste. Chocolate is best used bitter. Prescription yogurt is natural milk without additives.
Ingredients
• 150 g of powder;
• 4 eggs;
• 25 g of cocoa;
• 200 g of oil;
• 100 g sugar;
• 150 ml of yogurt;
• 200 g of dark chocolate;
• ripper package (10 g).
For cream:
• 300 ml sour cream;
• 100 g of powder;
• 50 g of oil;
• 200 g of chocolate.
Cooking
1. Chocolate for cakes to melt. The easiest way to do this is in the microwave. But it’s better to succeed, albeit a little longer, in a water bath. Remove, leave on the table.
2. We take a dry bowl, preferably at least 3 liters in size, so that it is convenient to work. Pour all the dry ingredients of the dough. Stir.
3. Pour in yogurt and eggs, beat everything with a mixer for about 3 minutes.
4. Add melted chocolate, stir.
5. Now we divide the dough into three equal parts. We put it into forms, send truffle cakes to bake at 170 half an hour, you can immediately put everything in the oven.
6. It is not necessary to remove the hot cakes from the mold, cool, then pull them out.
7. For cream, stir sour cream with powder. You can use more products if you like a thick layer.
8. Lubricate the cakes with each other. At this point, they should be completely cooled.
9. After crushing chocolate, melt again, but now with butter. We cover the truffle with glaze, let stand in the refrigerator and soak.
Chocolate cake: a simple recipe with gelatin
Another simple recipe for chocolate cake without baking. This time it is prepared from cottage cheese with gelatin. It is advisable to do it in advance, since the dessert will take 4 hours to solidify.
Ingredients
• 400 g of cottage cheese;
• 300 ml sour cream;
• 1 chocolate bar;
• 50 g of cocoa;
• 2/3 Art. Sahara;
• 3 bananas;
• 200 g of cookies;
• 150 g of oil;
• 30 g of gelatin.
Cooking
1. Gelatin immediately pour 100 ml of water, any juice or milk, even if it swells.
2. Rub the cookies until crumbs, mix with 110 g of butter, rub. We spread in a detachable form in the form of cake. We put in the refrigerator.
3. Mix the cottage cheese, sugar and sour cream, add cocoa to them. Beat with a blender. Set aside the chocolate mass.
4. We heat the gelatin in the microwave. All clots should dissolve. Mix with cottage cheese chocolate cream. You can heat the gelatin in a water bath or on a stove, but stirring constantly.
5. Pour half the curd cream onto the cake from the cookies, send it to the refrigerator for 2 hours, or simply periodically check the degree of solidification.
6. Peel the bananas, cut into pieces, spread on top of the jelly layer and fill with the remaining mass with gelatin, stand for another 3 hours.
7. Melt the chocolate and butter that remains (40 grams).
8. We remove the walls of the detachable form, pour the icing on the dessert. It should be melted, but not hot. Cool until the chocolate hardens.
Chocolate Cake: A Simple Gingerbread Recipe
For this cake you will need chocolate gingerbread and bananas. Sour cream, it can also be made chocolate, but this is already at will.
Ingredients
• 300 g of gingerbread;
• 60 g of chocolate;
• 130 g of powder;
• 350 g sour cream;
• 2 bananas.
Cooking
1. We take any bowl, inside we lay out a layer of food film.
2. Mix sour cream with powder, pour cocoa at will. The cream is ready!
3. Bananas cut into arbitrary pieces, preferably slices. Gingerbread cookies are cut in half into plates.
4. Wet a piece of gingerbread in a cream, put in a bowl. We take the second and repeat. Spread the layer.
5. Now cover the gingerbread with a layer of chopped bananas. Next, again, the gingerbread cookies. Putting the cake together. Pour the rest of the cream on top, if any, spread it so that it penetrates the holes.
6. Put in the refrigerator for 2 hours, then turn it over to the dish.
7. Melt the chocolate, water the cake.
Homemade Chocolate Cake - Useful Tips and Tricks
• If water gets into the chocolate, it will not melt. Cookware for melting should be dry and clean. Oil, on the contrary, speeds up the process, makes the glaze more plastic.
• If you need to sprinkle a cake with icing nuts, then you need to do this immediately, until the coating is fresh and frozen.
• Chocolate cakes go well with oranges, cherries, strawberries, bananas. Any dessert will sparkle with new notes if you make a fruit or berry layer between the cakes.
