A cake with an extravagant name "Smile of a Negro" is in fact a simple chocolate biscuit with an interlayer of white meringue. Sometimes such a dessert is cut with a pink berry soufflé or cranberry cream, poured over chocolate ganache, decorated with crumbs and cream. On how to prepare a cake "Smile of a Negro", we will discuss further.
Cake "Smile of a Negro"
Ingredients:
For biscuit:
- black chocolate - 90 g;
- cocoa powder 25 g;
- cream 15% - 120 ml;
- eggs (only yolks) - 3 pcs .;
- baking soda - 1/2 tsp;
- sugar - 90 g;
- flour - 180 g;
- low-fat sour cream - 190 g;
- baking powder for baking - 1 1/2 tsp.
For berry cream:
- fresh cranberries (or other berries) - 140 g;
- butter - 235 g;
- powdered sugar - 320 g.
For meringues:
- eggs (only proteins) - 3 pcs .;
- sugar.
For glaze:
- cream - 65 ml;
- powdered sugar - 70 g;
- cocoa powder - 10 g;
- Chocolate melted - 55 g.
Preparation
To prepare the cakes, melt the chocolate in the milk, cool the milk mixture and separately connect the dry and wet ingredients. Mix the two mixtures thoroughly together until a homogeneous dough is obtained. We divide the dough in half and pour it into molds. 15 minutes at 185 ° C and a biscuit is ready.
We weigh the egg whites and combine them with equal sugar by weight. Beat until the formation of solid peaks and put in a parchment-covered form. Beze is prepared at 80 ° C for an hour.
Berries for cream rub in puree. Combine soft oil with powder, whisk and mix with berry puree.
Spread half the cream on one cake, put meringue on top, the remaining cream and the second cake. Cover the cake with glaze from a mixture of milk, cocoa, sugar and melted chocolate.
Cake "Smile of a Negro" - recipe
The light version of the cake described above is the cake "Smile of a Negro".
Ingredients:
For the pie:
- eggs of chicken - 6 pcs .;
- flour - 180 g;
- vegetable oil - 95 ml;
- kefir - 200 ml;
- soda - 3 g;
- cocoa powder - 55 g;
- sugar 320 g.
For glaze:
- oil or margarine - 95 g;
- sugar - 80 g;
- cocoa - 40 g;
- milk - 50 ml.
Preparation
Separate egg whites are beaten with yogurt, butter and sugar (half of the amount given). Separately connect the dry ingredients. Mix the dry and wet ingredients, and distribute the resulting dough in the form and bake for 40 minutes at 180 ° C. The second half of the sugar is beaten with egg whites in a strong meringue, spread it over the finished cake and again put in the oven for 7 minutes.
Mix the ingredients for the glaze in the saucepan, bring to a boil, cool and cover it with our pie.