Chocolate cake - a holiday favorite flavor

Theoretically not love chocolate cake, of course, possible, but it is rarely found. Both children and adults, boys and girls, men and women carry such cakes to cause excessive salivation category of "delicious." So, learn to cook delicious moment - the tasty chocolate cakes.

For a long time since the introduction of chocolate in Europe in the 15th century, chocolate cakes, like himself, chocolate and other desserts from it were a dish, available only to the wealthy aristocrats. It was only in the late 19th - early 20th century, chocolate and cakes with its use began to prepare all sectors of society. Since then, and loved by many this fabulous dessert - chocolate cake.

The first chocolate cake prepared Austrian confectioner Franz Sacher, so it is fair to assume that the birthplace of this dessert - Vienna, capital of Austria. It was after the cake "Sacher", named after its inventor, gained its fame, recipes chocolate cakes have become referred to in cookbooks Austrian and Viennese cuisine. From the moment has passed for nearly two centuries, and now chocolate cakes are presented in such a variety of what to try all of them can not even the most inveterate lover of chocolate in my entire life.

For any preparation of chocolate cake can be used directly as chocolate - milk, bitter, etc., and cocoa. Chocolate or cocoa is added to this cake batter only, and any dough and cream. In addition, any chocolate cake can be an excellent issue, but more on that later.

Today the most popular cakes with chocolate are the above-mentioned "Sacher", walnut-chocolate, chocolate cream, chocolate and cherry-banana-chocolate cakes. Let's see how to cook them.

Recipe for preparing the classic chocolate cake "Sacher" (Viennese chocolate cake)

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You will need: 168 g chocolate with a cocoa content of 65-70%, 84 g unsalted butter, 112 g sugar, 5 egg whites, 4 egg yolks, 1/3 cup sifted flour,? tsp salt; for apricot stuffing - 1.5 cup apricot jam / marmalade, 2 tablespoons brandy; Glaze - 168 g of chocolate, 56 g of heavy cream, 28 g of butter, and cream supply hammered.

How to cook chocolate cake "Sacher". Such precise proportions of the ingredients are not accidental - a classic recipe for this cake quantity of all the ingredients indicated in ounces and 1 ounce is equal to 28 grams. So, first you need to put in a container chocolate and butter and melt them in a water bath, stir until smooth, allow the mixture to cool. Mixer beat the egg yolks with 28 grams of sugar - weight should be light yellow, then parts of the mix with the chocolate mass. Separately, beat whites to soft peaks with salt, without stopping the beating add remaining sugar, then add the flour parts. Stir one-third of the protein-flour weight with chocolate, then carefully add the rest of the protein mass in a greased form (a split) to lay out the mixture and bake for 40 minutes in a preheated 180 degree oven. Ready cake cool on a lattice. Rub through a sieve jam or marmalade, mixed with brandy, cut the cake into 3 layer with a sharp knife, sprinkle with brandy cakes (1 tablespoon), spread with jam, stacking on top of each other. Give the cake to cool for at least 30 minutes, coat with chocolate glaze: Melt the chocolate in a water bath with butter, mixed with boil separately cream, allow to cool. Served Viennese chocolate cake "Sacher" with whipped cream.

In the preparation of this cake, there are some secrets:

• To the surface of the cake was smooth and beautiful, watering cake need to slightly warm glaze, smoothing while soaked in hot water with a knife;
• Willingness cake checked wooden toothpick: slide it into the center of the cake, if it comes out clean, it is ready;
• If you want to glaze was more sweet, add the powdered sugar;
• Before serving the cake should be insisted a few hours and good soak.

Recipe for making chocolate-walnut cake

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Need: 500 ml of cream fat, 300 g shelled walnuts, 300 g of dark chocolate (100 of them - cream) 300 g of sugar, 8 egg whites, 2 tablespoons flour, Mandarin for registration.

How to make chocolate-nut cake. Lightly fry in a dry frying pan nuts, allow to cool, chop. Beat with a pinch of salt proteins, gradually add the flour and sugar without stopping beating until fluffy foam, add the nuts, lightly beaten to a thick consistency. Take the form of cakes, pave parchment powder with flour, pour a thin layer of cooked dough, bake the cake in a preheated 230-250 degree oven for 6-7 minutes. Grated chocolate rub separately whipped cream, then add them to the chocolate and mix. Cakes laying on each other, their promazyvat cream. Make a cake on top of a tangerine and pour cream to cool before serving 2-3 hours.

As you can see, cook chocolate cake with nuts are very easy to replace the walnuts in this recipe can be on any other suitable, such as almonds.

Sometimes cooking chocolate cake can be so simple that even bake it is not required.

Recipe for chocolate-banana-sour cream cake without baking

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Need: base - 100 g of biscuits and 50 g butter, stuffing - 400 g sour cream / yogurt, 100 ml of milk, 80-100 g dark chocolate (or 3 tablespoons of cocoa), 10 g of gelatin, 2-3 banana, 6 tablespoons sugar.

How to cook a chocolate cake without baking. Gelatin, pour 100 ml of water to swell to leave as much as instructed. Grind in the cookie crumbs, mix with melted butter, put the mixture on the bottom of the form (split), compacted and put into the cold for half an hour. In a saucepan pour the milk, add sugar, gelatin and cocoa, with constant stirring, until heated gelatin is completely dissolved, without boiling, then remove from heat. Pour the yogurt or sour cream, mix well. Share on frozen biscuits arbitrarily sliced bananas on top to pour the chocolate mixture (gradually) to remove in the cold to pour at least 3 hours. This chocolate sour cream cake with banana can be easily prepared even a beginner, never cooked cakes and impress everyone with his culinary talent!

Is considered to be a very popular chocolate-cherry cake to cook it, you can use chocolate walnut cake recipe and just add the cherry in a cream or dough cakes. Or cook a cake, replacing the bananas in the last recipe for cherry, as you can see - everything is very simple, we just have to decide!

What would you chocolate cake or prepared, remember:

• If cream cake made of cream, stir them with sugar and chocolate need when they are almost whipped;
• Do not place the chocolate cakes in a very hot oven - can not get cakes and biscuits;
• To remove the cake from the mold, after you got it, put on the form with Korzh soaked towel in ice water for 2-3 minutes.

Garnish with chocolate cake easiest chocolate - just rub it on a grater, pre-chill or melt chocolate and transplant it to the paper using a pastry shop culinary syringe in the form of patterns or lace, let dry, carefully remove the paper and put it on the cake decoration. Another easy way to decorate chocolate - make of it "c