To please guests at a gala dinner or a family on a typical day, you can cook "Swan Lake" (cake). It has several different recipes, and the result, according to the reviews of those who cooked, exceeds expectations!
Recipe from Samvel. Ingredients
Samvel Adamyan knows how to make a delicious dish from ordinary products. Samvel Swan Lake cake requires the following ingredients:
- A dozen eggs.
- A pound of sugar.
- Cocoa - 150 grams.
- Baking powder - 5 grams.
- Butter - half a kilo.
- Flour - 60 grams.
- Milk - 140 milliliters.
- Walnuts - 100 grams.
- A pound of condensed milk.
- Citric acid - 1 gram.
- Powdered Sugar - 150 grams.
- Cream - 200 grams.
- Corn starch - 105 grams.
Working process
Swan Lake is a cake that includes biscuit, waffles, meringues, cream, icing and decorations.
We start by making a biscuit:
- Separate the yolks from the proteins.
- Mix them with 100 grams of sugar, rubbing white in two doses.
- Mix starch with baking powder.
- Beat the yolks and sift through a sieve.
- Mix everything.
- Beat the whites by adding 100 grams of sugar.
- A quarter of the proteins add to the resulting mass. Mix.
- Do the same with the remaining proteins later.
- Lubricate the bottom of the mold with butter and sprinkle with flour.
- Pour the dough into the mold.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the cake in it for half an hour.
- Cool the cakes and cut into two.
Meringue:
- Beat four squirrels with 200 grams of sugar.
- Add to them nuts and waffle crumbs.
- Put parchment on a baking sheet and a baking dish on it . Inside, draw a circle and flip the parchment.
- Distribute the mass obtained in the first step evenly along the contour.
- Do the same on the other baking sheet.
- Bake for 25 minutes at 160 degrees.
- When time runs out, cakes should stand inside for another hour.
Cream:
- Boil condensed milk for half an hour, cool.
- Beat butter for a minute, gradually adding condensed milk.
- Between two biscuit cakes, put two meringue cakes, each greased with cream. Do not forget about the sides and top.
- Place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Then again grease the top and sides, remove for the same time.
Glaze:
- Mix 100 grams of melted butter with 100 grams of milk and sugar.
- Bring the resulting mass to a boil.
- Sift 100 grams of cocoa, add to the mass and cook for another three minutes. Stirring constantly.
- Pour icing over the cake and put in the refrigerator for an hour.
Now you will finally form the “Swan Lake” - the cake must also be decorated, for this you need:
- 75 grams of sugar, citric acid and beat egg.
- Fill it with a pastry bag.
- Form 5 necks and 10 wings.
- Sprinkle with sugar.
- Dry in an oven at a temperature of 100 degrees. Then leave there for an hour.
- Beat cream and 100 grams of sugar.
- On the cake, depict 5 slides that look like the body of swans, attach a neck and wings to them.
The Swan Lake cake from Samvel is ready. Cooking takes a lot of time, but all the actions are simple, and the result is worth it.
Simple recipe
How to make Swan Lake cake easier and faster? Take:
- A pound of flour.
- Sour cream - 200 grams.
- Eggs - 4 pieces.
- Cocoa - 4 tablespoons.
- Sugar - 400 grams.
- Slaked soda (tablespoon).
- Waffle cakes.
- Jar of boiled condensed milk.
- Oil, 200 grams.
- A bar of chocolate.
- Walnuts.
Working process:
- Separate the yolk from the protein.
- Mix it with sugar (200 grams) and sour cream.
- Add flour, cocoa, slaked soda.
- Knead the dough until it stops sticking to your hands.
- Roll and cut two square cakes.
- Put in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees, wait until the cakes are completely baked.
- Beat the whites and add the remaining sugar. Whisk again.
- Now put the resulting mass on the finished cakes.
- Sprinkle with walnuts.
- Bake to form a meringue. Cool.
- Beat condensed milk with butter.
- Spread each cake in the following order: biscuit, waffle, waffle, biscuit.
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath and pour the cake on top.
The result was a Swan Lake cake. The recipe is simpler than from Samvel, but everyone decides about the taste for himself.
Jewelry
To make the dish more reminiscent of Swan Lake, the cake must be properly decorated. To do this, you can use the method from Samvel, ready-made edible figures from marshmallows or even souvenirs. In the latter case, it is believed that the dessert will be in the end, but for now it just stands on the table for beauty. Canapes with birds on the end will look good. Artists can paint a picture of the lake with cream and glaze.
Prepare the Swan Lake cake - and a delicious dessert is guaranteed!