Have you ever heard of Dark Larry? If not, get acquainted! Dark Larry Cake is the recent discovery of the confectionery world. This is a completely unique piece of sweet art.
Miracle dessert
Cake "Dark Larry" will be appreciated by chocolate lovers. The proportions of the recipe are such that the cakes are incredibly sticky and at the same time porous, almost weightless, but at the same time very soft and juicy.
The chocolate flavor of this dessert puts all the famous chocolate goodies in the background. No matter how pathetic it may sound, the Chocolate Larry Cake claims to be the first in this nomination. This is something completely new and unsurpassed. The recipe for this cake revolutionized the technology and proportions of confectionery. If you are able to accurately follow all the recommendations step by step, then you will become a real guru in preparing this masterpiece.
Connoisseurs of the chocolate world argue that at present, Chocolate Larry, who has taken all the best from light mousses and sweet cakes, has become the standard of culinary art.
I must say that it is difficult to resist the temptation to try ready-made cakes even before they are collected in a cake. They themselves are very tasty. If you bite off at least a piece, then you will not see the finished dessert for you. There is simply nothing to be collected from.
What foods will you need to make a cake?
So how to cook such an unusual and wonderful dessert?
Andy-chef Andrei Rudkov offers his recipe. For its implementation, you will need the following ingredients:
- Cocoa - 90 g.
- Flour - 375 g.
- Soda - 7 g.
- Baking powder - 10 g.
- Oil (vegetable) - 150 g.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 450 g.
- Milk - 150 g.
- Vanilla Extract - 5 g.
- Coffee (hot) - 340 g.
- Alcohol - 75 g.
Then everything is simple.
Cake "Dark Larry": a recipe for cooking
So, we proceed directly to the preparation. Sift dry components into a large bowl: cocoa, flour, soda and baking powder. Cocoa must be taken in high quality. This is a very important point in the preparation.
Mix everything with a whisk, and very persistently. Then your future dough will turn out homogeneous.
Next, in a mixer, mix sugar and any vegetable oil. Beat until smooth. Naturally, we will not get such a consistency as when using butter.
Once the mixture has become more or less homogeneous, reduce the speed and add all three eggs in turn, along with the vanilla extract. Beat for several minutes.
Next, fill up half of the dry mix we prepared. Whip again. Add milk. And after him and hot coffee.
By the way, coffee can be taken both instant and prepared in a coffee maker. A prerequisite is that it must be very hot. The fact is that boiling water activates the work of the baking powder, it should begin to work even before the oven. Next, you need to brew the cocoa. It should be like hot chocolate. Thanks to him, chocolate cake is surprisingly dark. Alcohol is added there. You can take liquor, cognac, whiskey. Alcohol gives a tart pleasant aroma.
Whip it all at a low mixer speed. Add the last batch of dry ingredients. It turns out a pretty decent amount of dough.
Cake baking
Now you can start baking cakes. The recipe suggests using the sixteenth diameter of the mold. Then, from this quantity of ingredients, six crusts are obtained. Of course, you can use any form, but not very large.
On average, each finished cake weights weighs about three hundred grams. Each chocolate cake is baked separately. You can make thicker cakes, then each of them will have to be cut in half, although this is not very convenient and difficult to make evenly and beautifully.
We want to emphasize that the dough is liquid. Do not be alarmed, it should be so.
Be sure to preheat the oven first at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees (both top and bottom should warm up). Each cake is baked for about twenty-five minutes. We want to warn you about one important nuance. The dough itself is dark. In the process of cooking, it will become even darker, almost black. Therefore, you simply can not catch the moment when the baking is ready. In order not to burn cakes, constantly check the degree of their readiness with a skewer.
In general, professionals test readiness a little differently. They press a finger on the center of the cake, if it is springy, then this indicates its readiness. But you can get burned.
After removing the form from the oven, immediately take out the cake and transfer it to parchment or grate. So, bake all six crusts in turn.
Let them cool slightly, then wrap everything together in polyethylene, put in the refrigerator overnight. This is done so that the moisture is evenly distributed from the center of the cake over the entire volume, the package will not let it out. As a result, the cakes are incredibly sticky and juicy.
Next, you need to align all the cakes, making them the same thickness. Since they are very sticky, you can lay parchment between them.
Making a cake
How will we lubricate homemade chocolate cake? Of course, cream. But which one you prefer is up to you. There is no need to use any specific recipe. Choose the cream that you think is delicious.
The only thing to consider is that it will need to be tinted with a dye. In the finished form, the cream may be orange.
Then we put it in a pastry bag and begin to smear cakes. This must be done in a special way. A kind of cream spiral is applied to the cake (like a twisted snail). So we coat layer by layer. Then with the same cream you need to process the outer area of the cake.
Making the Glaze for Dark Larry
Now our Dark Larry Cake can be refrigerated overnight. In the morning, start preparing the glaze.
She will freeze very quickly and beautifully on a cold cake. It should be wonderful smudges.
To make the glaze, you will need butter and chocolate (eighty grams). If you take the tile, then you need to grind it. We should get a homogeneous paste. And large pieces will melt for a long time, delaying the process.
To quickly melt the chocolate, put it in a pastry bag and drop it into hot water. As soon as it melts, squeeze it into the bowl. We add the oil there in proportion: for every hundred grams of chocolate, 80 grams of butter. This is done to give glitter to the glaze. It will be softer on the cake and turn into a delicious crust.
Mix the mass with a silicone spatula until smooth. If the oil does not melt, then you can put the bowl for fifteen minutes in the microwave. Mix everything again. It turns out a chocolate homogeneous emulsion. Glaze should cool. It can begin to be used when it acquires the consistency of kefir.
Meanwhile, we will decorate our cake with kandurin. It is such a harmless dye for food. So, our task is to cover them with the side surface of the product. How do we do this? Yes, very easy! We will take the gold dust with a brush and, having brought it to the cake, blow strongly on it. Kandurin in the form of dust will settle on the surface with a gold layer, the thickness of which you yourself regulate. Just applying it with a brush will not work, ugly stains will remain on the surface. Dust is applied layer by layer until the desired shade is obtained.
How to make spectacular smudges of chocolate?
As soon as the icing has cooled slightly, we begin to apply it on the cake. To do this, pour it on the center of the upper cake. Then with a spatula (silicone) we begin to spread it on the surface, pushing the glaze to the edges. So it will begin to flow unevenly down. She will not run away from us far, because she will quickly freeze on the cold surface of the cake. For beauty, glaze can be powdered with kandurin, giving a rich golden hue.
Instead of an afterword
So our Dark Larry Cake is ready.
The reviews of the hostesses who managed to master the recipe for this sweet miracle, which Andi-chef Andrei Rudkov offers to bake, simply can not leave anyone indifferent. The cake is really very tasty and unusual. There’s nothing to compare him with. It’s just chocolate perfection.
For the most advanced housewives who have mastered cooking with the help of modern kitchen assistants, you can advise you to cook the Dark Larry cake in a multicooker on the baking mode. It also turns out great.