Everyone who loves desserts should definitely try the unusually tasty, very tender and moderately sweet cake "Lolita". It is easy enough to cook at home. Instead of cherries, you can use other fruits and berries. The most important thing is to maintain a balance between sour and sweet taste, because it is he who makes this dessert so unusual.
Sponge cake "Lolita"
To start preparing a delicious dessert, prepare the following set of products:
- Milk chocolate - 250 grams.
- Eggs - eight pieces.
- Icing sugar - 100 grams.
- Butter - 180 grams.
- Flour and granulated sugar - 100 grams each.
- Soda and vanillin - half a teaspoon.
- Cocoa powder - three tablespoons.
- Cream 33% - half a liter.
- Gelatin - 30 grams.
- Cranberries and cherries - 100 grams.
- Cognac - for soaking berries.
- Baking powder - one teaspoon.
- Lemon juice - one tablespoon.
The Lolita cake recipe consists of a fairly large number of ingredients, but the cooking method is not so complicated:
- To cook sponge cake, you need to beat 90 grams of icing sugar with 100 grams of butter until smooth.
- Five proteins to separate from the yolks. Beat the last with 50 grams of sugar. Beat chilled proteins until stable peaks with remaining sugar and lemon juice.
- Melt 100 grams of chocolate in a water bath and introduce it into a mixture of yolks and sugar.
- Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder into a separate bowl and carefully add whipped proteins and melted chocolate with yolks into the dry mixture.
- Next, put the finished dough in a greased form and send it to the oven for 55 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
- While the finished biscuit is cooling, soak the berries for swelling in brandy and prepare the mousse.
- Beat butter until white and add it to the pre-melted remaining chocolate, mix.
- Separate the yolks from the proteins. Beat the yolks until white, and beat the whites with 10 grams of icing sugar.
- Now connect everything together and mix with a silicone spatula.
- Beat cream until thickened and add dissolved gelatin to them.
- Next, the cooled biscuit for the Lolita cake is divided into three parts.
- We coat the lower cake with mousse, cover with the second cake, put berries on it and grease with cream.
- Coat the top layer and the whole cake with cream and send to the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- Decorate the cake as you wish.
The finished Lolita cake looks very bright. A sectional photo of the dessert is presented below.
Coffee and Dark Chocolate Cake Option
To bake the Lolita cake, we need:
- Dark chocolate, margarine, sugar, flour - 100 grams each.
- Powdered Sugar - 75 grams.
- Eggs - five pieces.
- Cocoa - four tablespoons.
- Lemon zest and baking powder - one teaspoon each.
Products for mousse:
- Chocolate - 150 grams.
- Eggs - three pieces.
- Powdered sugar - one tablespoon.
- Butter - 80 grams.
- Instant coffee - two tablespoons.
Interlayer: cranberries and cherries soaked in rum.
Cake coating: whipped cream with melted gelatin.
The algorithm for making the cake "Lolita":
- For the cake you need to beat the butter with powder and lemon zest.
- Beat whites and yolks separately with sugar, divided in half.
- Pour melted chocolate and a mass of yolks into the butter.
- Now carefully pour the sifted flour, cocoa, baking powder into this mixture, mix.
- Add whipped proteins to the dough and mix.
- Bake the cake at 180 degrees for about 55 minutes.
- Cool the finished cake and cut into three parts.
- Preparing mousse: mix melted chocolate with whipped butter, coffee, separately whipped egg yolks and whipped to steady peaks whites with powdered sugar. Ready mousse to remove in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- The assembly of the cake "Lolita":
- Korzh.
- Mousse.
- Korzh.
- Berries
- Whipped cream.
- Korzh.
The whole cake needs to be coated with cream, removed for two hours in the cold. Decorate as you wish.
Cake "Lolita"
If you are planning a children's holiday, then Lolita cakes are ideal for this event:
- Lingonberry or cranberry jam - 250 grams.
- Powdered sugar - two glasses.
- Juice of half a lemon.
- Sugar - half a glass.
- Vanillin - one teaspoon.
- Eggs - four pieces.
- Flour - one glass.
Cooking method:
- Beat eggs with sugar and place in a water bath. Continue whisking until the mixture turns white.
- Remove from the water bath, add vanillin and continue to beat until stable peaks.
- Gently pour the sifted flour and mix everything with a silicone spatula.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper, pour the dough on it and bake for no more than 10 minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees.
- After five minutes we cut the finished cake into four parts and lay each cake on top of each other, saturating them with jam. Then cut into several equal parts.
- Pour cakes on top with any icing to your taste and decorate as you wish.
Tips
Some useful tips:
- Be sure to soak the berries in brandy or rum.
- Sift flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will be airy.
- Cream use a high percentage of fat, otherwise they will not beat.
- It is better to cool the eggs and butter before whipping.
- To whisk the whites better, you can add a pinch of salt.
- Wait for the biscuit to cool completely. Otherwise, it just breaks.
Follow these simple rules - and you will achieve the desired result.