Chocolate pastries and desserts using chocolate are the favorite dishes of most housewives. It is them who they treat their loved ones to celebrations and holidays. Today we want to offer you to cook a deliciously delicious Pele dessert - a cake with an amazing crisp and rich chocolate flavor.
This recipe is good in that it is prepared on the basis of ordinary cakes. No complicated puzzles to solve. "Pele" - a cake that can be prepared right before the arrival of the guests in the house. You even have time to tint your lips and brush your hair.
Essential Products
Since the Pele cake consists of two components: cakes and cream base, we will split the ingredients into appropriate groups. At the exit of the described ingredients, you will get a fairly large cake, which can easily be divided into twelve portioned pieces. By calorie content, the cake is rather fat and heavy, but insanely tasty, and even those who follow the diet will not be able to refuse it. The calorie content of one small piece of cake will be about 53 kilocalories.
Ingredients for Cakes
Most products, of course, are always at home:
- Three glasses of granulated sugar.
- Five eggs.
- 100 grams of cocoa powder.
- Three glasses of flour.
- Half a pack of butter (100-120 grams).
- 700 ml of kefir.
- One bag of vanillin or vanilla sugar.
- 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda.
Cream Ingredients
It is better to cook condensed milk yourself.
- Two cans of boiled condensed milk.
- One pack of butter.
Chocolate Glaze Ingredients
Everything is simple here:
- A bar of dark chocolate.
- 2-3 tablespoons of warm milk.
Cooking process
To prepare Pele cake at home, it is recommended to mix the dry ingredients first. We start with sugar and cocoa powder. Mixing them thoroughly and mixing, add the chicken eggs. Mix everything until smooth.
“Pele” is a cake that is replete with butter, so if you are on a diet, you have to feast on one small piece. Remember: changing the recipe, trying to make the cake less fat, is not recommended.
So, eggs with sugar and cocoa are mixed. Now go to the oil. It will need to be melted in a microwave or in a water bath. The oil should not boil, it is enough just to melt it. Now we add liquid oil to the cocoa base. Mix everything thoroughly. We add vanillin and vinegar slaked with vinegar to the mass. You can add a couple of tablespoons of kefir or milk, so that the mass is more easily mixed after adding flour.
It is important to remember that the Pele cake recipe at home requires exceptionally high-quality ingredients, from good butter to high-grade flour. Saving is not worth it.
Flour before adding to the total mass must, as usual, sift. Add this ingredient gradually, thoroughly altering everything. By its consistency, the dough for shortcakes should not be too thick. Rather, it will be similar to the dough that you use when cooking pancakes.
Now move on to baking the cakes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. You can take any form for creating cake layers: metal, plastic or silicone. It will need to be greased with butter and pour batter. Experienced housewives say ten large spoons of dough are enough for a standard cake. Each cake should be baked for about half an hour. Remember that you will periodically need to check its readiness with a wooden skewer or match.
"Pele" is a cake that can consist of any number of cakes. When you bake the right number of pieces, cool them and soak them with sweet syrup or liquor. Now prepare the cream for the layer of cake. In a bowl, mix the condensed milk and melted butter. Beat everything well with a mixer. We recommend that you do not add all the milk to the cream at once. Do this gradually, otherwise you risk getting too thin a cream.
Grease the cooled cakes with the resulting cream, covering one with the other. Now we cut the cakes along the edges so that our Pele cake takes the necessary shape. By the way, we do not throw out the remaining crumbs, but chop them and leave them to decorate the dessert.
Decorating a culinary masterpiece is recommended with the help of chocolate ganache. We drown dark chocolate in a water bath, adding a little cream or milk. This mass is poured on top of the cake. We advise you to leave a couple of pieces of chocolate for decoration. When the ganache cools down and hardens, sprinkle the cake with crumbs mixed with grated chocolate. If you wish, you can always add nuts or fruits to the cake. So it will turn out more saturated in taste and satisfying. Decoration can also be made using fruit.
This recipe is good in that the cake can already be eaten right away. Of course, ideally, he should stand for about four hours in the refrigerator. But if you don’t have this time, that's okay. "Pele" is a universal option for busy housewives, which helps to surprise guests and at the same time save time for yourself.