Very tasty cake "Prague" is loved by all residents of the former USSR without exception - a rich chocolate-creamy taste, a delicate biscuit with rum or liqueur impregnation, with a thick layer of chocolate glaze and soft crumbs on the sides will not leave indifferent any lover of sweets. There are several variants of this popular cake: a sponge cake can be sour and chiffon, and a cream for a cake "Prague" - based on butter, based on condensed milk or cocoa, and even a protein cream for those who do not like oil creams.
Baking a sponge cake
Preparation of the cake "Prague" begins with the preparation of biscuit.
Ingredients:
- flour in / s - gram 400;
- 250 g of sugar;
- 250 g of sour cream;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 100 g of cocoa;
- 100 g of good vodka, not fruit;
- 100 g of condensed milk, but it somewhat heaves the dough, so if you want the biscuit to be light and fluffy, do not add condensed milk to the dough;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon, but you can also use hydrated soda.
Preparation:
Flour sour 2-3 times, mix with baking powder and sifted cocoa. Separate the squirrels from the yolks (eggs cool). Whisk yolks and a half of sugar to white, the proteins to stable peaks. In yolks add sour cream, vodka and condensed milk. Shake well. Add squirrels and gently, with a spoon or spatula mix everything. Add a little flour with cocoa. Stir the dough carefully, mixing everything from top to bottom. How to bake a cake "Prague"? Like any biscuit cake! Dough neatly put in a parchment covered with oiled parchment and bake in a preheated oven for an hour. When the biscuit cools, remove it from the mold and cut it.
Cooking cream
You can make a cake "Prague" with condensed milk, just smeared cakes condensed milk or cocoa, but this dessert can not be called with the rightful cake "Prague". The recipe for this cream for this cake is simple: combine 100 g of condensed milk with yolk and a tablespoon of water, warm slightly. Give the cream to brew, then gradually enter a pack of soft (not melted) butter, beat well and grease with the resulting cream of the cake. Usually, before lubricating with cream, the cakes are impregnated with a syrup or a mixture of syrup with liqueur or rum.
Glaze
Cake "Prague" classic must be with glaze. However, in addition to the glaze for the design of this cake is necessarily used sweet and sour jam: cherry, cranberry, apricot. The contrast of sour jam and sweet chocolate glaze gives an unforgettable experience. To make the glaze, simply mix 2 chocolate bars (100-150 g each) and half a cup of butter. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and add butter. Lubricate the sides and top of the cream with jam (thin layer) and cover with glaze.
Cake "Prague" for kids
How to bake a cake "Prague" for kids, if you can not add alcohol or chemicals to it? It is not difficult. Biscuit should be light: 2 cups of flour sift 2 times, add sifted cocoa (half a glass approximately). Instead of cocoa, you can put the child's favorite Nesquist powder. Separate the proteins from the yolks in 3 eggs. Yolks pound from 100 g of sugar to white, and the proteins cool well and whip with half a cup of sugar until firm peaks. 300 grams of fatty sour cream add to