Chocolate and nut sponge cake

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   We prepare the necessary ingredients to prepare a delicious chocolate sponge cake.

2. STEP 2

   

   Break five chicken eggs at room temperature into a large bowl.

3. STEP 3

   

   Pour one hundred and seventy grams of sugar into a bowl with eggs.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add half a teaspoon of vanilla sugar to the bowl.

5. STEP 5

   

   Beat all ingredients in a bowl with a mixer until fluffy white foam.

6. STEP 6

   

   Pour one hundred and fifty grams of wheat flour and thirty grams of cocoa powder into a bowl.

7. STEP 7

   

   Add a little salt to the bowl to taste.

8. STEP 8

   

   Mix all the ingredients well in a bowl.

9. STEP 9

   

   Sift the prepared mixture of flour and cocoa powder into a bowl with the egg mixture.

10. STEP 10

    

    Gently mix all ingredients in a bowl with a spatula until a homogeneous dough is obtained.

11. STEP 11

    

    Place the prepared dough on a baking sheet that has been previously covered with baking parchment.

12. STEP 12

    

    Spread the dough into an even layer using a spatula, then let it sit for five to seven minutes.

13. STEP 13

    

    After a while, take the baking tray with the biscuit out of the oven and divide it into two parts, after which we cut each half lengthwise and get four biscuit cakes of the same size.

14. STEP 14

    

    Place five hundred grams of softened butter in a large bowl and lightly beat it with a mixer.

15. STEP 15

    

    Add four hundred grams of Gost condensed milk to a bowl of butter.

16. STEP 16

    

    Add four hundred grams of Gostovsky boiled condensed milk to a common bowl.

17. STEP 17

    

    Mix all ingredients in a bowl with a mixer until smooth.

18. STEP 18

    

    Pour seventy grams of cocoa into a small bowl, then add two tablespoons of prepared cream to it.

19. STEP 19

    

    Mix all ingredients well in a bowl.

20. STEP 20

    

    Add one tablespoon of the prepared mixture to a common bowl with cream and mix with a mixer until smooth.

21. STEP 21

    

    Place half of the prepared cream into a deep bowl, then cover it with a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator.

22. STEP 22

    

    Place two hundred grams of boiled semolina in a bowl with cream to layer the cake layers.

23. STEP 23

    

    Mix all ingredients in a bowl until smooth.

24. STEP 24

    

    Soak the first sponge cake with the previously prepared salted caramel.

25. STEP 25

    

    Lightly dry a mixture of various nuts in a frying pan.

26. STEP 26

    

    Transfer the nuts into a plastic bag and grind them to fairly coarse crumbs.

27. STEP 27

    

    Place four tablespoons of prepared cream on the sponge cake and spread it in an even layer.

28. STEP 28

    

    Sprinkle the prepared nut crumbs on top of the cream layer.

29. STEP 29

    

    Place the next sponge cake layer on top of the nut crumbs.

30. STEP 30

    

    We continue to assemble the cake in the same way, place the final cake layer on top and put the cake in the refrigerator for one hour.

31. STEP 31

    

    After time has passed, we take out the bowl of cream for decorating the cake from the refrigerator and mix it well again with a mixer.

32. STEP 32

    

    Apply the cream in an even layer on all sides of the cake and level it with a spatula.

33. STEP 33

    

    If desired and to your taste, decorate the sides of the cake with cookies, then apply the previously prepared chocolate glaze on top and distribute it in an even layer.

34. STEP 34

    

    We decorate the top of the cake with a relief pattern of cream, then to taste with chocolate and cookies, after which we put it in the refrigerator.

35. STEP 35

    

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Comments on the recipe

Anastasia Bogdanova

27.08.2023

4.8

Beautiful cake! Tell me, please, why do I need to add semolina?