Cake “Poor Jew” is an unusual and delicious biscuit dessert, for the preparation of which there is no need to purchase outlandish and expensive ingredients. It is worth noting that such a product can be safely served to the festive table. Believe me, all your invited guests will note the originality in design and unusual taste of this dessert.
Tasty dessert “Poor Jew” (cake): step by step recipe
To create such a treat, we may need the following products:
- sifted wheat flour - 2 full glasses;
- fine sugar sand - 1.4 cups;
- large chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
- thick fat sour cream - 180 g;
- table soda and vinegar 6% apple - for a dessert spoon;
- seedless raisins large (preferably black) - ½ cup;
- poppy - 2/3 cup;
- chopped walnuts - ½ cup;
- odorless vegetable oil - for greasing dishes.
Cooking basics
The Poor Jew cake is lush and soft due to the fact that it is made on the basis of biscuit cakes. To prepare such a dough, you should separate the egg whites and yolks in different dishes, and then add sugar, thick sour cream to the last component and stir well until the sweet product is completely dissolved. Next, it is necessary to cool the proteins and beat them well with a whisk until the formation of standing peaks. After that, both parts of the dough need to be combined, quenched with baking soda and added to them, pour in the sifted flour. As a result of these actions, you should get a viscous base resembling charlotte dough.
Preparation of additional ingredients
The Poor Jew cake is unusual and tasty due to the fact that each cake of which it consists includes raisins, walnuts and poppy seeds. But before you mix the base with these ingredients, they should be well processed. To do this, you need to sort out the large black seedless raisins, scald it with boiling water and keep in this condition for at least half an hour. Next, the dried fruit needs to be rinsed in cold water and completely deprived of the liquid by shaking it strongly in a colander.
As for walnuts, they should also be cleaned of debris, washed thoroughly, dried in a microwave or in a saucepan, and then crushed into fairly large crumbs using a blender or a regular mortar.
Cake baking process
Before forming the Poor Jew cake, bake large cakes one at a time. For this, the kneaded dough must be divided into three equal parts, and then put steamed raisins, chopped walnuts and poppy seeds in each of them. Next, you need to take a detachable form, well lubricate its surface with oil and pour in the base with dried fruits. Such a product should be baked in the oven at a temperature of 195 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Similarly, it is necessary to make a cake with walnuts and poppy seeds.
After all three biscuits are baked, they need to be laid out on a cutting board and cooled as much as possible, evening the edges if necessary.
It is worth noting that the Poor Jew dessert is prepared not only from different cakes, but also with the use of different creams. So, to create such a treat, we decided to make condensed-oily and sour cream fillings one by one.
Required Components for Condensed Cream
To make a delicious and sweet cream for the presented cake, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- thick condensed milk - ½ jars;
- Fresh butter - 90 g.
Cooking Condensed Cream
Such filling is done very quickly and easily. To do this, mix the two named components and beat them thoroughly with a mixer. If desired, a little cocoa powder can be added to such a filling.
How to make sour cream?
This product is being prepared no more complicated than the previous one. To do this, take 100 g of thick sour cream and beat it until lush, along with icing sugar in an amount of ½ cup.
Dessert process
The Poor Jew cake, the photo of which is presented in this article, is formed very easily and simply. To do this, put the first biscuit with raisins on a large flat plate and grease it with a thickened cream. Next, on top of the filling, place a cake with poppy seeds, on which all the sour cream filling should be distributed in a similar way. At the end of the dessert you need to cover with a nut biscuit. To make such a tasty and high cake beautiful, it is recommended to completely pour over it with melted chocolate (white or dark), and then mentally divide the surface into two parts, which must be sprinkled with poppy seeds and crumbs from nuts.
Proper dessert serving
After the cake under the unusual name “Poor Jew” is fully formed, it should immediately be sent to the refrigerator for several hours. Next, the dessert needs to be cut into portioned pieces and presented to family members along with hot and strong tea.