Think about how to bake a cake for a weekend or for a holiday? We offer you the recipe for an interesting biscuit cake "Grafski ruins", the preparation of which is not particularly difficult.
Tell you how to make a cake "Grafsky ruins" at home.
Important point
There are various variants of recipes for the cake "Grafsky ruins", some of them with condensed milk. Now the present condensed milk with sugar, made with observance of GOST, still it is necessary to find. We also offer to prepare light, not cloying cakes with not too fatty creams. So, despite nostalgia, instead of, perhaps, a dubious and not very useful product, it is better to use natural cream, sour cream, and even better - unsweetened yogurt.
"Grafsky ruins" - a classic recipe (improved)
Ingredients:
- fine wheat flour - about 1.5 cups;
- corn starch - about 0.5 cup;
- egg of chicken - 4 pcs .;
- yoghurt or sour cream - 180 ml;
- sugar (can be in the form of powder) - 130 g;
- cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- rum or cognac, fruit brandy - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- soda, redeemed - 1 pinch;
- lemon.
For meringues:
- proteins of chicken eggs - 3 pcs .;
- powdered sugar - 120 g;
- lemon juice.
For cream:
- sour cream, yogurt or cream thick - 300 ml;
- powdered sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vanilla or cinnamon - 1 pinch.
For interlayer and sprinkling:
- ground or chopped nuts;
- chocolate ready dark - 1 tile of medium size.
Preparation
Separate egg whites from yolks for meringue preparation. We place proteins in the cold in a closed container. In the meantime, bake a biscuit. Mix sugar powder with cocoa powder and egg yolks. The rest of the powder is mixed with proteins and whipped until firm peaks. We combine in a bowl sifted flour, starch, yogurt and chocolate-yolk mixture, add the extinguished soda and rum. Knead the dough. Add the whipped proteins to the dough. You can lightly mix the dough with a mixer.
We fill the form with the test, but not to the full depth. Bake in an oven at medium temperature until a nice ruddy shade appears. We check the readiness by piercing the match in the middle, it should remain dry. We extract the biscuit, let it cool down while we cook the meringue.
Mix the lemon juice with sugar powder and squirrels. We'll blow the mixer to a steady foam. We spread the baking sheet with baking paper or put a silicone rug on it. We spread small portions of protein-sugar mixture, dosing in any convenient way (using a pastry bag or syringe, or a regular tablespoon). The meringue time can vary widely from 20 minutes to an hour (depends on the temperature, size and desired softness of the meringue inside each piece). During
Cooking cream: you have to mix cocoa powder with sugar powder and yogurt, and then add vanilla or cinnamon.
Cut the biscuit into 2 pieces from the side, it turned out 2 cakes. Put the first cake on the dish with a porous side up. We plentifully and evenly cover the surface of the cake with cream and sprinkle abundantly with ground nuts. From above we impose the second cake and also abundantly cover it. Or you can make two cakes at once. On top of the smeared and nut-sprinkled cake we spread out the meringues with an asymmetrical mound (or mounds), depicting, as it were, the ruins of the castle. Uneven trickles - so that we have a stream, pour cake cream, sprinkle nuts and grated chocolate.
We serve cake with tea, coffee or rooibos.