Everything should be delicious, unusual and solemn on the festive table. According to a long tradition, the crown of the holiday is the cake, which is the visiting card of every housewife, showing her skill. But sometimes the seemingly unremarkable dessert turns out to be so amazing in taste that its external data ceases to matter. This is exactly what a biscuit cake with pineapples and pieces of jelly in a cream is capable of turning over all ideas about classic desserts.
Cake with pineapple and jelly slices
Some people call this dessert a “cousin of Pancho” because it is very similar to the cake of the same name not only in appearance, but also according to the cooking principle. The only difference is in the additives to the cream, which each confectioner can use his own, if he wants to create a new taste based on the main recipe.
In this embodiment, a sponge cake with pineapples is layered with a cream with pieces of jelly and walnuts, therefore it has a fairly high calorie content (about 302 calories per hundred grams), but an amazing taste that will not leave anyone indifferent.
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These proportions of ingredients for a biscuit cake with pineapples are designed for 15 servings, which is quite enough for tea drinking with close friends. If this is too much, then you can cut the ingredients in half, but do not forget to check their ratio accurately. For a biscuit base you need:
- 230 grams of flour;
- five eggs;
- 300 grams of granulated sugar;
- six tbsp. l cocoa powder or carob;
- 1 \ 2 tsp. baking powder, vanillin and lemon juice.
For the cream you will need:
- three glasses of sour cream (about 800 gr.);
- 1 pack of fruit jelly (dry mix);
- 1 tbsp. powdered sugar and as many chopped walnuts into pieces;
- one pineapple;
- vanilla on the tip of a knife to flavor the cream. You can use 1-2 drops of essence.
Also, the top of the cake will be covered with chocolate icing, for which you need to take 200 grams of cream and a 150-gram bar of dark chocolate without additives.
Cooking basics
For such a cake with pineapples, the biscuit base is prepared according to the classical scheme: the eggs are divided into yolks and proteins, each part is whipped separately with 1 \ 2 part of sugar. Finished proteins should have a thick consistency when the mass does not flow out of the dish turned upside down and does not even change its position. The yolks with sugar are beaten until white and a lush structure is formed, although not the same as protein.
Further, both masses are joined together: the protein mass is transferred with a spoon in small parts to yolk and mixed from the bottom up in one direction. At the end, sifted flour and vanillin are added, as well as a baking powder for the dough. Cover the baking dish with parchment, slightly greased with oil, pour the dough there and bake in the oven at a temperature of 220 degrees, for 40-50 minutes. Do not forget that the first half hour the oven door should not open, otherwise the biscuit will settle. Cool the finished base for the cake on a wire rack, stand for at least four hours and only then cut it lengthwise with a sharp knife into two cakes. One of them is cut into cubes the size of 2-3 cm.
Cake filling: cream with pieces of jelly
While the biscuit comes to condition, you can prepare jelly for the filling of the cake: pour the jelly mixture into 300 grams of cold water and mix well. Sometimes in such cases, you may notice that grains of gelatin settle on the bottom, which suggests that the mass may not freeze. How to melt gelatin in this case? Put the dishes with this liquid mixture in a water bath and, stirring, warm up until the grains melt.
It is important not to boil the mixture, otherwise the jelly will not harden. Then pour the jelly into a bowl, put in a cool place, and when it completely hardens, cut into 1-1.5 cm cubes. Green pieces of jelly look very nice in a biscuit cake with pineapples - contrast and festive.
The cream is prepared simply: the cream is whipped with powdered sugar and vanilla until light foam.
Cake making
Before you put the cake together, you need to add pineapple pieces to the filling. You can use canned, but, according to user reviews, fresh fruit in the cake is much tastier. How to peel a pineapple at home? It is necessary to cut the bottom and top of the fruit, and then cut the strips of the peel with top-down movements, removing the remaining vegetable cutter - it is simple and very convenient. Next, cut the pineapple into circles, which are divided into squares.
Put a whole biscuit cake on a dish, cover it with a layer of cream, on top of which put pieces of pineapple mixed with jelly, sprinkle with chopped nuts. Then a little more cream, and cut into it squares of biscuit, again cream, pineapple and jelly, etc., until the cake takes the form of a slide. Coat everything on top with the remaining cream and refrigerate for at least two hours so that the cake does not melt in the heat, because jelly is a very sensitive thing to temperature.
Final chord: chocolate icing
The cake should grow stronger in the cold, but not freeze. While it cools, you can prepare the icing: warm the cream almost until it boils, remove from heat and add a bar of chocolate broken into small pieces, stir until it is completely dissolved, then cool and pour the finished cake.
Return it to the refrigerator for a couple more hours so that it is better soaked. As you can see from all the steps, it’s not the cheapest cake, but it’s worth it: when cut, it looks unusual, somewhat disheveled, but the taste meets even the wildest expectations, as it includes everything that the sweet tooth wants: whipped cream, fruits, chocolate, nuts and even pieces of jelly.