Count ruins are a real classic that convinced many of its viability. The cake recipe Count ruins, in principle, is not a secret and does not require special sacrifices of time and effort. It takes from 40 minutes to two hours to prepare it (depending on the characteristics of the recipe).
There is a very interesting recipe for a cake that is prepared on the basis of meringues. It turns out to be very light and unusual. This is an author’s invention, which was tried at home and earned their genuine love. You can try to make such a cake at first small in size, and if you like it, you can increase the serving.
Cake recipe Earl meringue ruins
For approximately 4 servings, the following foods will be needed.
For meringues: a glass of sugar 3 protein.
For cream: 3 yolks, 115 g of walnuts, 100 g of butter (cream).
For glaze: 100 grams of sugar, 4 teaspoons of cocoa, 20 g butter, 4 teaspoons of water.
To prepare the dough, beat the proteins with sugar in a dense foam until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Cover the baking sheet with baking paper and spread the meringue with a spoon. Bake it for about 50 minutes at an oven temperature of about 150 degrees.
For the cream, the yolks are mixed with sugar, walnuts and butter and beat for a long time.
Form the cake with your hands, lubricating the layers with cream. From above, bring out artistic stains with glaze. Chill the cake before serving.
A more familiar and classic version is still considered a cake based on a biscuit. How to cook count ruins containing both biscuit and meringue?
Cake recipe Count ruins biscuit
Ingredients: 6 proteins, a glass of flour, two and a half glasses of powdered sugar, a teaspoon of quenched soda.
This cake is made from two cakes. As the name suggests, Count's ruins are biscuit, one cake made of proteins, and the other will be made of meringue.
To prepare a protein cream, beat 6 proteins (pre-chilled) with two glasses of powdered sugar. Put the resulting protein mass on a baking sheet (sprinkled with flour) in the form of cookies of approximately the same shape and bake for about an hour on low heat.
To make a biscuit, take a glass of sugar and mix it with 4 eggs, then add flour and some slaked soda to them. The biscuit mass should be poured into a mold, oiled and slightly sprinkled with flour (or covered with parchment paper) and baked on low heat for about half an hour. Chill the finished cake. Cut it lengthwise into two layers.
Cream will also be two types.
The cream is made from boiled condensed milk (one can), 200 grams of plain condensed milk and half a pack of butter. All is well needed to beat with a mixer.
Protein cream will require whipping two proteins and a half cup of powdered sugar. Add chopped walnuts to the cream.
Spread the dish for the cake with condensed milk cream, put one biscuit on it, grease it with the same cream on top and then cover with a second biscuit. Once again, carefully spread the biscuit on top with the cream of condensed milk. On top of the cream, you need to lay the meringues, smearing them with a protein cream. From the meringue should be an asymmetric slide, which actually will depict the ruins of the castle of the count.
Top the cake with the remaining cream of condensed milk, trying to get neat streaks that will decorate the cake. Put the rest of the protein cream on top and cover the cake with walnuts.
Cake recipe Count ruins with sour cream
This cake cooks much faster than the previous one.
For the test you need to take: one and a half glasses of flour, 200 grams of sugar, 2 eggs, a teaspoon of hydrated soda, a glass of sour cream, 2 tablespoons of cocoa, half a can of condensed milk.
For impregnation: 600 grams of sour cream and 1.5 cups of granulated sugar.
For glaze: 30 grams of butter, 100 grams of sour cream, 4 tablespoons of cocoa.
For decoration: walnuts - 200 grams.
The dough is prepared like this. 2 eggs beat with sugar, sour cream, condensed milk, flour, cocoa and soda. The dough is divided into two parts. One bake in the shape of a circle, the second - a rectangle.
To impregnate sour cream, beat with sugar.
When the biscuits are ready, we take them out of the oven. Round cake will be the basis of the cake. Rectangular cake, while it is still warm, you need to cut into pieces or cubes.
On the basis you need to put biscuit cubes soaked in sour cream. Sprinkle each layer of bricks with walnuts.
Now you need to cook the icing. Mix sour cream with sugar and cocoa, cook everything over low heat for 10-15 minutes, then add butter. Pour the cake with icing and cover with walnuts for decoration. Refrigerate for two hours. Enjoy your meal!