A festive table is never complete without a delicious cake. Each hostess has her favorite recipes and signature desserts. However, sometimes you want to experiment. And if there are nuts in the house, then you can make a nut cake. The recipe may be simple, “whip up”, but some will have to work hard. But the result will not leave indifferent any sweet tooth.
Walnut Cake European cuisine recipe
To pluck a luxurious nut cake with a creamy, very delicate cream is very simple. The main thing is to observe all proportions and prepare the necessary ingredients. It will take 5 eggs. In advance, yolks and squirrels can be divided into different bowls. No treat will work without sugar. It will take about a glass (200g). You need milk (half a cup), flour - the same amount, a little bit of olive oil (a tablespoon) and ground nuts (any: walnuts, almonds, peanuts, 250 g). These are products that are useful for creating cakes.
First you need to beat the whites with a mixer . Very elastic and lush foam should form. To create an air meringue, sugar is gradually poured into the whites while whipping in a thin stream. Separately, the remaining yolks, nuts, milk, flour and olive oil are mixed. Exactly half of the dough is placed in meringue, beat thoroughly, and then the rest of the dough is added. The whole mixture is poured into a baking dish.
The oven warms up to 190 degrees. The form with the test is put in it. About 40 minutes will be required to bake the cake until fully cooked. After this, cool the resulting cake, and then cut it lengthwise into two even parts.
For the cream you will need nuts (150g), whipped cream (about 300g) and sugar (150g). It is easy to prepare the cream: sugar and nuts are heated over low heat until they turn into nut caramel. The cooled nuts are crushed using a blender, and then mixed with cream.
Cake with nuts. Recipe from Turkey
There is another very delicious nut cake, the recipe of which was brought from Turkey. It needs simple ingredients:
- · Flour - exactly 2 tbsp .;
- · Butter (cream) - 1 pack;
- Sour cream - exactly 1 tbsp. l .;
- · Be sure to half a glass of sugar;
- · 2 chicken eggs;
- · For greater sweetness - 2 tablespoons of honey;
- · Lemon zest should already be rubbed;
- 0.5 tsp baking powder;
- · Hazelnuts (they are crushed in a blender);
- · Cream (you need fat) - 2 tbsp .;
- · Special vanilla sugar - about 1 tbsp. l .;
- · Sugar powder - 2 tablespoons.
Butter must be kept at room temperature so that it softens slightly. Only then it is whipped into foam, combining with granulated sugar. Eggs, sour cream, a small part of the zest, honey and, finally, baking powder are added to this. After mixing the ingredients, flour is added to the mixture to make a real dough. It is poured into a mold that enters the oven for 40 minutes. Once the biscuit is ready, it is cut into 2 parts horizontally.
Cream is also very simple to make. Mixer cream with powdered and aromatic vanilla sugar. A little mixture should be left to decorate the top of the cake. The remaining cream is combined with chopped and roasted nuts. Such a mass is lubricated first cake, and then the top layer. Using a pastry device (bag or syringe) you can decorate a delicious cake. About 5 hours, and preferably all night, to remove this beauty in the refrigerator.
Walnut Chocolate Cake from Vienna
The national Austrian dish is walnut cake, the recipe of which has spread all over the planet and has become a favorite for many. This Viennese dessert is called "Sacher" and is actually a chocolate-hazelnut cake using two kinds of nuts.
Before preparing a dessert, you need to prepare the necessary products. These are 2 tiles of dark, dark chocolate, walnuts and almonds (in equal proportions, approximately 200 gr.), Butter (half packs), sugar (half a glass) and many eggs (6 pcs.). Then everything is very simple. Chocolate and nuts are crushed. This can be done using a blender. Separately, the butter is ground with sugar, and the proteins are separated from the yolks, which are added to the creamy mixture. She also mixes with chocolate and nut crumbs.
Proteins are whipped with a mixer into the foam and poured into the dough, which is sent to a mold pre-oiled. Bake the cake at 180 degrees for about 45 minutes.
A little effort and desire and a gorgeous nut cake according to any recipe will be ready!