"Smetannik" is an easy and gentle cake, which (as is clear from the title) is prepared from sour cream dough. Creams for the cake "Smetannika" is best done also on the basis of sour cream (or similar, but less fatty product - unsweetened yogurt) with the addition of various flavoring fillers.
Tell you how to make a cake Smetannik.
A simple recipe for Smetannik
First - the basic recipe for a simple thin cake "Smetannik" with two cakes and chocolate cream .
Ingredients:
- sour cream natural medium fat content relatively thick - 300 ml;
- Chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- wheat flour - about 2 cups;
- corn starch - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- granulated sugar - 100 g;
- rum, cognac or fruit brandy - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cinnamon or vanilla - 2 pinch;
- food soda expired with lemon juice - on the tip of the knife;
- a piece of butter.
For cream:
- sour cream or yoghurt thick unsweetened - 250 ml;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cocoa powder or carob - 2 tbsp. spoons.
For interlayer and sprinkling:
- ground or chopped nuts (hazelnuts or walnuts) - 1 glass;
- chocolate ready dark - 1 medium tile.
Preparation
Separate egg whites from yolks and whisk together with a mixer until a firm foam. Yolks carefully rub with sugar, add rum, soda, vanilla, sour cream. Mix with the sifted flour and add the whipped whites. By starch we regulate the density. You can briefly mix the dough with a mixer. Divide the dough into 2 parts.
Fill the part of the dough with 2/3 mold, greased with butter (you can immediately work with 2 forms). Bake cakes in the oven for about 25 minutes (the optimum temperature is about 200 ° C). After turning off the fire immediately, the cakes from the oven can not be removed, let them reach at the slightly opened door for 15 minutes. We do not work immediately with cakes, let them "rest" for at least half an hour.
Now prepare the cream. Mix cocoa and sugar powder, add sour cream. You can also add a little bit of some thick fruit syrup or liquor - the taste of the cream will be supplemented with new interesting fruit notes. If you want the cream to freeze, include in its composition a little water gelatinous solution (about 5 g per 150 ml of lukewarm water, then strain). Vegetarians can replace gelatin with plant agar-agar, it should be two to three times more than gelatin.
We put the cake on a dish and abundantly cover it with cream. Sprinkle evenly with a layer of chopped nuts, we put the second cake on top, we also pour it over, cover it with cream, sprinkle with nuts and grated chocolate.
If the cakes are magnificent, they can be cut from the side each to two more thin cakes and build either a "four-story" cake, or two "two-story" cakes. Cake must be allowed to soak - for this we put him in the refrigerator for at least an hour at 3.
To make the cake even more interesting and exquisite, you can lay steamed dried apricots, raisins, fresh fruit slices (for example, bananas and kiwi), fresh berries (raspberries, blackberries, currants, pitted cherries, etc.), crushed fruit marmalade and various other light dessert delicacies. Too juicy berries sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and starch. Fantasize the boldest.
Truffle cake "Smetannik"
Preparation
Sour cream dough is prepared based on the basic recipe (see above) and divide it into 2 parts, then in one of the parts add a mixture of cocoa powder and sugar (2 tablespoons). Bake cakes light and chocolate. In this variant, it is better not to put cocoa in the cream, but simply add syrup or thick liquor to sour cream or yogurt. Thickening the cream can be done by adding starch or gelatin. Cut the cakes and build a cake in 4 "floors" (or 2 cakes, see above). From the top on the cake lay out the ready-made chocolate candy truffles and once again we will cover the cream.
We serve cake with tea, coffee or rooiboshem, preferably in the morning.