The Mocha cake recipe is a rather unique thing for every housewife. Someone prepares it with liquor, and someone without. Someone makes a simple filling from chocolate pouring, and someone devotes as much time to decorating as preparing the ingredients along with the assembly of the cake. Further in the article several recipes of this treat will be analyzed, as well as various ways of decorating it.
Some useful notes
The following few tips will help you with the process of decorating the Mocha coffee cake. The following is a list of them:
- You can make beautiful chocolate chips with a regular peeler. She needs to cut off the top layer of the tile.
- Also, when preparing chocolate chips, you must first grind it on a separate plate. Then it can be transferred to the cake itself. Thanks to this manipulation, you can evenly distribute the decoration.
- Exactly the same algorithm works with jewelry made of cream. Cook them separately on a plate, then carefully use a knife to transfer them to the cake. It will also help to avoid the presence of damaged jewelry. Since if one of them fails, you can always make a new one and transfer it.
- Another important note concerns the alignment of the cream on the surface of the cake. After you finish spreading it, swipe the cover with a wide hot knife. This will work on the principle of iron, leveling the decoration.
Now you can move on to the Mocha cake recipe.
The first way to cook and decorate
Despite the fact that such a cake is quite simple to prepare, it will require many ingredients. As a result, for a biscuit you need:
- one hundred grams of wheat flour;
- four chicken eggs;
- one hundred grams of sugar;
- 30 grams of butter.
Cream Ingredients
The following list of products is designed for the three most important components of goodies. To prepare the cream, you need:
- one chicken egg;
- 250 grams of butter;
- four egg yolks;
- 200 grams of sugar.
Products for pasta and impregnation
Now you need to prepare products for the last important components of the cake. First you need to deal with coffee paste:
- 125 grams of water;
- 125 grams of sugar;
- 65 grams of instant coffee.
Syrup:
- 60 grams of water;
- 60 grams of sugar.
Cooking process
It will take you about two hours to prepare all the ingredients and collect the cake. You should start by making coffee paste. Here's what you need to do:
- To begin with, pour the indicated amount of sugar into a saucepan and heat. It is necessary to continue the procedure until the granules are completely melted and the caramel color is acquired.
- Next, you need to pour coffee and pour water. Cook the mixture, stirring constantly. In the end, it should be saturated and slightly liquid. After that, you need to put it in the refrigerator.
- Now, according to the recipe for the cake "Mocha" you need to prepare the base. For biscuit in one saucepan, you need to combine sugar and eggs.
- Place the dishes in a water bath and continue whipping the contents with a whisk until it reaches a temperature of about 43 degrees.
- After this, the pan must be removed from the water bath and processed using a mixer for six minutes. Stop the procedure after the mass increases in volume and becomes magnificent, while it must retain its shape.
- Now here you need to add and mix the flour in parts. Continue to stir until the mass is homogeneous.
- After that, melted butter is added. It must also be mixed in the dough and processed until the latter acquires an airy texture.
- The mold for making biscuit at home needs to be covered with baking paper. Next, you need to pour in the dough. It is advisable to divide it into several portions and cook several cakes separately. They must be baked at a temperature of 180 degrees for 25 or 30 minutes.
- Next, according to the recipe for the cake "Mocha" you need to prepare a cream. To do this, mix the egg and yolks in one dish. Process the resulting mixture with a mixer until a lush consistency of light shade is obtained.
- Now you need to put sugar in the stewpan, fill it with water and cook on fire until it reaches 116 degrees.
- As soon as the desired condition is obtained, again begin to process with a mixer a mixture of eggs and yolks, while adding cooked syrup to it.
- Continue whipping until you get a smooth and cooled mass.
- Next, add butter (it should be at room temperature).
- Then pour the previously prepared pasta (set aside one tablespoon from it).
- Stir all the contents again until a lush and smooth cream is obtained. It should take on a coffee hue.
- Now you need to figure out how to soak cake layers. To do this, combine sugar, water and pasta in a saucepan. Boil the contents until sugar is completely dissolved and boil.
- Next, you need to grease the upper side of each cake with cream and evenly distribute it on the surface. After processing the latter, cream the sides of the cake with cream and smooth it so that there are no gaps anywhere.
- According to the recipe for this cake "Mocha", decoration is done at will. After assembly, the cake should be put in the refrigerator for 1.5 hours.
Second recipe
In this case, the decoration will be more complicated. The composition is also different. Need the following ingredients for the cake "Mocha":
- Wheat flour;
- 350 grams of butter;
- 7 chicken eggs;
- three yolks;
- 350 grams of powdered sugar;
- three tablespoons of instant coffee;
- 300 grams of water;
- 10 teaspoons of coffee extract;
- 50 grams of coffee beans in chocolate;
- peeled hazelnuts.
Recipe Implementation
For cooking, you will also need about two hours. Here's what you need to do:
- Pour some water into a saucepan and set to bring to a boil over low heat.
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
- Lubricate the mold in which the cakes will be cooked.
- Melt 50 grams of butter separately.
- Now put five eggs and 180 grams of powdered sugar in a separate metal dish. Place the dishes in a pot of boiling water. Make sure that it does not touch the liquid.
- Beat the contents with a whisk, while waiting until it reaches a temperature of 60 degrees.
- After that, remove the dishes from the pan and continue whisking the contents for an additional ten minutes. A sign of termination of the procedure should be room temperature, air foam and an increase in volume.
- In a separate mug, mix a tablespoon of coffee and the same amount of hot water. Stir and pour the melted previously warm butter. Knead again until a smooth paste is obtained.
- Now take five tablespoons of egg mass, cooked earlier, and add to the mug. Stir the contents until you make a uniform mass.
- Combine egg and egg-butter masses. Begin mixing, adding flour gradually until a dough is not too thin.
- Then simply mix until you get a uniform dough of airy consistency.
- Once you have the necessary ingredient, put it in the previously prepared baking dish.
- It will not be superfluous to twist the dough a little once, so that it spreads evenly over the dishes and comes closer to its edges. As a result, the cake will be smooth, without a tuber in the center.
- Now the dough must be cooked for 30 minutes. A sign of readiness should be the departure of the biscuit from the sides and the general springiness when pressed.
- Once it has cooled in shape, it must be laid out and left to infuse for eight hours (preferably).
Further, according to the recipe for the cake "Mocha" cream is prepared.
- Mix a teaspoon of coffee extract, a tablespoon of instant coffee and a tablespoon of water. Mix everything until smooth.
- In a saucepan, combine 170 grams of icing sugar and 60 milliliters of water. Start to boil.
- Mix and begin to beat two eggs and three yolks. It should be airy foam.
- After the syrup is heated to 120 degrees, pour it into the eggs and beat with a mixer for ten minutes, until the mass has almost completely cooled.
- After this, pour in the previously prepared coffee paste and beat the butter until airy.
- Combine both masses, mix and refrigerate.
- To make the syrup for impregnation, mix 100 milliliters of water and 130 grams of sugar. Bring to a boil and cool.
- Pour a tablespoon of instant coffee and a teaspoon of coffee extract. Shuffle.
- Divide the biscuit into five shortcakes and soak each with syrup.
Assembly and decoration
The last and most important stage. For him you need:
- The cream is divided into two parts: one to cover the top and sides, the second in a pastry bag. Need a nozzle "star".
- Put the first cake and use the bag to apply the cream. Spread with a spatula and repeat with the remaining cakes.
- Now you need to process the top surface and sides. Smooth the cream with a warm knife.
- Then chop the hazelnuts into large slices and sprinkle them on their sides.
- Garnish the top with roses made of cream using a pouch.
- On top of each of them, place the coffee beans in chocolate.
Then leave the cake to infuse overnight. If you can’t wait so much, then two hours is enough.