Black cake - general principles and methods of preparation
What does black cake mean? Of course, the chocolate flavor that cocoa provides him is a powder made from cocoa beans. But initially the product, discovered in Mexico and Peru, was first used not only for cooking, but also as money - they were paid for goods brought for exchange to South America. Many people enjoy a drink of cocoa, thereby expressing friendliness and hospitality. He came to Europe only in the 17th century, but gained popularity much later than coffee or tea. Local confectioners could not taste the taste of cocoa, until they began to mix it with vanilla.
Today we know that cocoa is not only a valuable ingredient for confectionery factories, but also a very useful product for people suffering, for example, hypertension. He is able to lower pressure and improve mood, stimulate working capacity and mental activity. Many have probably heard that a bar of dark chocolate increases vitality and promotes the production of hormones of joy - endorphins. It turns out that thanks to cocoa, we can become a little happier.
All this applies to the black cake, because it is precisely because of the content of cocoa, rich in melanin, that it got its name. Although cocoa is a high-calorie product, it has the ability to quickly saturate the body, so it’s difficult to eat a lot of chocolate product. So, you can not worry about the extra pounds. So, we remove stress - we prepare a refined, elegant, delicate and insanely chocolate Black cake!
Black cake - preparation of products
In addition to the classic composition for biscuit and cream (flour, eggs, sour cream, sugar), we need cocoa powder. In grocery stores, you can find this product from a large number of brands, but sometimes we get it without aroma and taste, packed in lumps. It is impossible to evaluate the quality of the powder in the package, but if you are still worried about the taste of the cake, check the cocoa at home by opening the pack. The mixture should be aromatic and saturated. If you rub it between your fingers, the dust does not crumble. The grinding should be very fine and without the presence of grains. The use of cocoa powder with defects is unacceptable, but a properly prepared drink or other cocoa product is useful not only for adults, but also for babies over two years old.
Black Cake - The Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Black Currant Cake
Black chocolate for the base, blackcurrant for the filling and decoration, black coffee for impregnation - the cake justifies its name. An airy dark sponge cake with a very simple preparation. The biggest expenditure of time (4 hours) for impregnation - we spend only an hour and a half on the preparation of the cake, and send the holiday dessert to insist in the refrigerator.
Ingredients:
Biscuit
Eggs (4 pcs.), Sugar (130 gr.), Flour (60 gr.), Starch (1 tbsp. L.), Cocoa (50 gr.), Baking powder for dough.
Impregnation
Strong coffee (100-150 grams).
Chocolate cream
Dark chocolate (200 g), fat cream (preferably 35%, 100 ml), sour cream (200 ml), sugar 45 gr.
Currant Cream
100-150 ml blackcurrant jam (100-150 gr), cream cheese (100 gr), fat cream (100 ml), sugar (45 gr), white gelatin, blackcurrant liquor.
Cooking method
1. Biscuit. Beat eggs with sugar until airy white foam. Mix together all the dry ingredients and mix them with eggs using a wooden spoon. We place the dough in the form, previously covered with parchment, and send to the oven for about 45 minutes. Cut into layers.
2. Chocolate cream. We grind the crushed black chocolate. Bring the cream to a boil and pour into chocolate. Mix until chocolate is completely dissolved.
Mix sour cream with sugar and add to chocolate, mix until a homogeneous mixture, beat.
3. Impregnation of cakes. Soak the bottom cake in the form with strong coffee, the next layer is the chocolate cream, again the cake, the impregnation and the cream.
4. Currant cream. Whip cream with sugar, separately mix jam with cheese. Mix gelatin soaked in cold water with slightly warmed liquor, and then with a currant mixture. Add to all this mix whipped cream. Lubricate the top of the cake with the resulting cream and smooth it out. Impregnation - 4 hours in the refrigerator.
Recipe 2: Black Chocolate Glaze Cake
The undoubted plus of the incredible chocolate cake from simple products is quick cooking, and the taste is like that of an expensive confectionery product.
Ingredients:
Dough: flour (150 grams), eggs (4 pcs), butter (50 gr), sugar (100 gr), cocoa (50 gr).
Cream: yolks (2 pcs), powdered sugar (200 g), milk (1 cup), chocolate (100 grams), flour (1 tsp), butter (100 grams).
Icing: cocoa (2 tablespoons), milk (3 tablespoons), sugar (2-3 tablespoons), butter (1 tbsp. L.).
Cooking method
Grind the butter with sugar, add cocoa and yolks, gradually stirring after each egg, at the end add flour and whipped whites in a steaming foam.
Mix, divide into two parts, and put in two forms. (You can bake one cake and cut into two plates). Pre-grease the molds. Bake for 30 minutes at 200 degrees. Take care not to dry the cakes, as they are baked very quickly.
Cream
Beat the yolks with icing sugar, add flour, milk and grated chocolate, put on a small fire. Cool, stirring. Beat butter, mix with cream. We coat the cakes with cream.
Fondant. Combine the components and warm to a boil. Grease the cake with fondant.
We will cut this continuous chocolate pleasure after complete solidification.
Recipe 3: Black Curd Cream Cake
This cake can be made as light as possible, an excellent recipe for a delicate chocolate-cottage cheese delicacy made from low-fat cottage cheese and cream. It contains almost no flour. In general, a light and sweet holiday!
Ingredients: eggs (4 pcs), sugar 6 tbsp. l + 0.5 tbsp.), Cocoa (3 tbsp.spoons), flour, (3 tbsp. L.), Soda (on the tip of a knife), low-fat cottage cheese (550 g), curd sweet mass (200 g, filler - raisins or candied fruit), gelatin (10 gr), cream (250 ml), dark chocolate to decorate the cake.
Cooking method
Biscuit. Separate the yolks, add sugar and rub well. Beat whites with 5 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar. The protein mass is mixed with whipped yolks, cocoa powder, flour, quenched with vinegar or lemon juice, soda. Quickly and accurately mix with a mixer at low speed. Put in a greased form with vegetable oil, bake for 30 minutes. Check the readiness of the cake only at the end so that the dough does not fall. Cut into two uneven cakes using a long, strong thread or a long knife. We put thin cake in a form covered with cling film, cut the thick into square pieces.
Filling. To make the cottage cheese homogeneous, mix it with sugar and grind it in a food processor. We dilute gelatin with fruit syrup (in half a glass), withstand in a water bath until completely dissolved. Mix the curd mixture with sweet curd, gelatin, cream. We mix everything. Add fruit. We spread the biscuit cubes into the filling, mix for the last time and pour into the mold. We put the finished cake in the refrigerator for freezing all night. We glaze in the morning. On a small fire, dissolve the floor of the chocolate bar in a small amount of water, pour the spoon on the cake. Again in the refrigerator for freezing.
The cake is ready, you can cut it. The most interesting thing is the cut, a neat black puff piece, delicious, smelling of chocolate.
Black cake - useful tips from experienced chefs
You can invent your signature Black Cake recipe by inventing combinations of filling and cream. Here are some more options:
- Impregnation for the cake: mix sugar syrup with 50 grams of cognac, bring to a boil.
- Chocolate-cherry cream: melt the floor of a bar of chocolate with 50 gr. butter, add sugar and vanilla, two eggs, two tablespoons of flour and 100 grams of cherry juice. Bring the mixture to a boil and wait until it thickens, cool.
- Chocolate chips for decorating the cake: melt the floor of the chocolate bar in a water bath, smudge on a plate with a thin layer, allow to congeal. Touch with long chips and decorate the cake on the sides and top.
Bon appetit and tasty life!
