With the approach of any significant event in our lives, we begin to flip through magazines, notebooks, the Internet in search of new recipes. After all, I so want to please guests or loved ones with different goodies. And when the main menu is selected, we begin to plan a dessert. And what could be better for dessert than a delicious, juicy and beautiful cake. An elegant, but at the same time simple and quick to prepare Black Prince cake can be your ideal option. It does not require special ingredients and skills, which means that even a novice hostess can bake this delicious treat without any special effort. "Black Prince" - a cake that will not leave anyone indifferent. It will become a real decoration of your table. There are more than a dozen recipes for this dessert, but I want to offer you the most popular and tried.
Cake "Black Prince"
Ingredients. For the test: flour (about 3 cups), sour cream (2 cups), sugar (1.5-2 cups), a few tablespoons of cocoa, eggs (4 pcs), vinegar stewed with vinegar (2 teaspoons), salt. In the dough, you can also add vanilla sugar, a little cognac, walnuts and prunes.
For cream: butter (250 g), condensed milk (2 cans), optionally cocoa.
For glaze: sugar (2 tablespoons), milk (5 tablespoons), butter (50 g), cocoa (1 tablespoon).
Cooking. Take a deep bowl, sift the flour into it. We add cocoa, salt, slaked soda to the flour and mix. Pour prunes with boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Drain and cut into small pieces. Walnuts are slightly fried in a pan or in the oven, chopped. Add nuts and prunes to the flour, put sour cream here. We mix everything.
Separate the yolks from the eggs, pour a glass of sugar in them and beat. Spread the resulting mass in a bowl with flour. Beat the remaining proteins separately, adding sugar in them a little. Gently spread the resulting protein foam in a bowl with the dough, mix everything with a spoon so as not to damage the airy protein mass. After adding all the ingredients, you should get a dough resembling thick sour cream, which must be divided into two equal parts.
Forms in which cakes will be baked, cover with baking paper, smeared with vegetable oil, pour in the dough. We send the forms into the oven and bake the cakes for about half an hour at 200 degrees. After baking, we cut each crust into two parts, so that in the end we get four crusts.
The Black Prince cake is smeared with butter and condensed milk cream . To do this, soften the butter and grind it with condensed milk, if desired, add a few spoons of cocoa. Put the finished cream in a cold place for 30-60 minutes.
To prepare the glaze, pour milk into the pan, add sugar, cocoa to it and mix thoroughly. We put the resulting mass on a small fire and boil until the glaze begins to thicken. Do not forget to stir. Remove the mass from the fire and add the melted butter to it, mix everything well.
After the cakes are smeared with cream, pour the Black Prince cake with hot icing, and after cooling we send it to soak in the refrigerator for several hours.
You can decorate the cake on top with chocolate figures. To do this, we melt the chocolate bar and draw the necessary figures on the parchment with a culinary syringe. Then put the sheet in the refrigerator for 20 minutes to solidify the chocolate. Using a knife, remove the finished figures from paper and decorate the cake.
In addition to the cake, pie is very popular among housewives. It’s easy to prepare.
Pie "Black Prince"
In a bowl for kneading dough, put one glass of flour, sour cream, sugar, add two eggs, a teaspoon of soda and a few tablespoons of cocoa powder. Knead the dough - homogeneous, without lumps, reminiscent of thick sour cream in consistency. Pour the dough into a baking dish, previously coated with butter. We send the form to the preheated oven and bake the cake for about 20 minutes. Recommended temperature for baking 200 degrees. When the edges of the pie begin to lag behind the mold, and the toothpick remains dry after piercing, it can be removed.
If desired, you can pour the pie with the same icing as the Black Prince cake.