Chocolate sour cream sponge cake with walnuts

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Let's prepare the necessary products according to the list: for the dough - 4 eggs, 150 g each of sugar and flour, 4 tbsp. l. cocoa powder, 1 tsp. baking powder, for cream - 100 g sour cream, 50 g sugar, vanillin, for impregnation - 80 ml syrup. Walnut kernels - 50 g, they go into both the dough and the cream.

2. STEP 2

   

   For the shape, take a piece of butter and breadcrumbs.

3. STEP 3

   

   Grease the baking dish with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.

4. STEP 4

   

   Grind the walnut kernels.

5. STEP 5

   

   We divide the ground nuts into two parts - for the dough and for the cream.

6. STEP 6

   

   Combine the eggs with sugar in a deep container and begin to beat.

7. STEP 7

   

   Beat eggs with sugar until the mass triples.

8. STEP 8

   

   Then add a mixture of dry ingredients - flour, cocoa powder, baking powder - into the fluffy mixture.

9. STEP 9

   

   Mix the mass well, it turns out quite dense.

10. STEP 10

    

    Then add chopped walnuts.

11. STEP 11

    

    Knead the dough for a minute, either with a mixer or with a spoon.

12. STEP 12

    

    Place the chocolate dough in the prepared pan and smooth the surface.

13. STEP 13

    

    Place the pan with the dough in a hot oven and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

14. STEP 14

    

    After 40 minutes, remove the pan from the oven, remove the hot cake from it, it will be dense. Let the cake cool on a wire rack and then cut into 2 or 3 cakes.

15. STEP 15

    

    Place the cakes for soaking with the cut sides facing up.

16. STEP 16

    

    Pour syrup over the slices of chocolate cakes and leave to soak for a few minutes.

17. STEP 17

    

    While the cakes are soaking, prepare the cream - combine sour cream with sugar, vanillin and chopped nuts, leaving a few nuts for sprinkling the cake.

18. STEP 18

    

    Beat the sour cream with nuts with a mixer until the sugar dissolves, 2-3 minutes. The cream will be liquid.

19. STEP 19

    

    Apply sour cream to the slices of the cakes soaked in syrup.

20. STEP 20

    

    Place the cakes coated with sour cream on top of each other, grease the entire cake with the remaining cream on top and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Place the finished cake in the refrigerator for better soaking and hardening.