With the help of well-cooked fondant, you can not only give the cake a spectacular appearance. Covering her with dessert also introduces a certain flavor note. Therefore, it is important to use the best quality products when creating sweets and not to disregard advice on how to prepare it in recipes.
Today we will tell you how to make a quality sweet for a cake of cocoa powder. Its chocolate flavor perfectly complements any cake and will make it simply irresistible.
Chocolate fondant for cake from cocoa - recipe
Ingredients:
- cocoa powder - 50 g;
- granulated sugar - 110 g;
- whole milk - 80 g;
- softened butter - 75 g.
Preparation
For the preparation of sweets, mix sugar and cocoa powder in a ladle, then pour in the boiled milk, stir and place the dishes with the mixture in a water bath in a container of boiling water. We hold on fire, stirring for two minutes, then turn off the fire, add butter and stir until it completely dissolves in a sweet. We give it a little cool and put it on the cake.
If desired, you can complement the taste of fudge vanilla note. To do this, add a little vanilla sugar at the beginning of the preparation or vanilla extract at the end.
Taking as a basis the proposed recipe, you can also make a fondant for a cake with cocoa on water, replacing it with milk.
Fondant for cake with cocoa and sour cream
Ingredients:
- cocoa powder 75 g;
- granulated sugar - 75 g;
- sour cream with fat content above 20% - 50 g;
- Butter - 50 g.
Preparation
As in the previous recipe, we combine cocoa powder with sugar. Then add sour cream and mix. Place the container with the mixture on a quiet fire and stand, stirring, to a boil. Next, we put in butter and let the sweetness on the fire, stirring constantly, until it completely dissolves. Remove the dishes from the fire, let the sweetness cool down a little at room temperature, and cover the surface of the cake with it.
Fondant for cake with cocoa and condensed milk
Ingredients:
- cocoa powder - 40 g;
- condensed milk - 200 g;
- Butter - 20 g.
Preparation
Condensed milk is mixed in a scoop with cocoa powder, we determine the capacity of the mixture with the mixture on a fire, warm it over a low heat to a boil, stirring constantly, and cook for one minute. Then we remove the mass from the fire, let it cool down a bit, and dissolve the butter in it. If necessary, you can add to the fondant also a few cubes of dark or white chocolate, thus adjusting its color from darker to light.