Although they claim that they do not argue about tastes, everyone likes this combination of nuts and prunes. Whether we add these two ingredients to whipped cream, ice cream, souffle, whether we make a cake out of them - all these desserts will be received with a bang. But with baking, people have different tastes. Someone loves a delicate sponge cake, give someone a crisp shortbread dough, and someone - a crispy puff. Below is a selection of homemade baking recipes, where walnuts and prunes are one of the main ingredients. They differ from each other in the way of kneading dough and creams. You can choose your cake recipe. Cake with prunes and walnuts will delight your loved ones and surprise guests.
Sour cream dough
Beat five eggs with a glass of sugar and a bag of vanillin. Add 300 g of sour cream, a can of condensed milk, a spoonful of soda. Mix and add three cups of flour. The resulting mass is best divided in two. In one of the parts we interfere with three tablespoons of cocoa powder. We bake cakes alternately (half an hour at one hundred ninety degrees). Each of them is cut into two parts. For the cream, grind a glass of walnut kernels and 200 grams of steamed pitted prunes. Beat half a liter of sour cream with sugar (add it to taste) until splendid. Add nuts and prunes, knead. Cooking impregnation. We make a cup of strong coffee, add two tablespoons of cognac. Now collect the sour cream cake with prunes and walnuts. The recipe prescribes to soak all the cakes and smear them with cream. Alternate white and dark layers. Chocolate cake should be on top. The top of the product is decorated with glaze and the remaining cream.
Shortbread dough
This is a very original recipe. Homemade cake with prunes and walnuts consists of round cookies, inside of which there are plums stuffed with walnuts instead of stones. Grind margarine (three hundred grams) with a glass of sugar, add three eggs and beat. We put a spoon of soda quenched in vinegar and begin to add flour. It may take four cups to knead an elastic dough. Divide it into thirty identical balls. We put inside each a berry of pre-soaked prune, into which we have already inserted a quarter of the nut kernel. Cover the baking sheet with oiled paper, lay out the balls. We bake in a preheated oven at one hundred and ninety degrees. Whisk a liter of sour cream with two glasses of sugar. Dip the cooled shortbread cookies in this cream and lay in the shape of a pyramid. To give stability to the design, coat the sides of the cake with the remaining sour cream and pour over the melted chocolate.
Economical recipe: “Pancho” with prunes, sour cream and walnuts
We start by turning on the oven. In a deep bowl, beat the egg, a glass of sugar and a bag of vanilla. In a cup of kefir, we extinguish the floor of a teaspoon of soda. Pour into the egg mass. Beat with a mixer again. Pour a glass of sifted flour in portions. Gently knead the dough with a wooden spatula, wielding it without fail from the bottom up. The form in which we will bake, you need to grease, and then a little powder with flour. There we pour our dough. Then we put the mold in a hot oven and bake for about twenty-five minutes at 180 C. While the biscuit gets cold on the wire rack, we will take up the cream. Zaparim two hundred grams of prunes, free it from the seeds, cut into slices. Beat four hundred grams of fat sour cream and half a glass of sugar. Add the prunes. We cut the biscuit into two cakes. We cut one of them into small cubes and knead with cream. Cover the dome-shaped bowl with cling film. Spread the cream. Top cover with a whole cake. Then you need to wrap the product with something on top (for example, cling film) and put in the refrigerator for six hours, or even overnight. Push the rolling pin of the walnut kernel. Sprinkle with them the sides and top of the product. The recipe recommends decorating the cake with prunes and walnuts with chocolate icing.
Sponge Truffle
We grind four yolks with one hundred and fifty grams of sugar. Whip the squirrels into foam. Melt two hundred grams of milk chocolate. Put a packet of butter in it, rub it. Into the chocolate mass we introduce the yolks and one hundred grams of chopped nuts and prunes. Stir, add one hundred and fifty grams of flour and a bag of powder for cookies. Carefully inject whipped proteins. Pour the liquid biscuit dough into a mold covered with parchment. We put in a hot oven and bake for half an hour at 180-200 C. Cut the cooled biscuit into two layers, soak coffee with cognac. We heat a glass of milk, dissolve one hundred grams of chocolate in it and bring to a boil. Rub the yolks with a spoonful of sugar and a pinch of vanillin. Add a handful of flour. Mix and fill with a milk-chocolate mass. We put on a small fire and prepare a custard. When it cools down, we introduce half a glass of chopped almonds. The recipe offers sponge cake with prunes and walnuts to decorate with truffles.
Honey cake
The dough for this cake needs to be prepared in advance. It should stand in the refrigerator for at least six hours. To bake such a cake with prunes and walnuts, the recipe suggests mixing a glass of honey, two eggs, one hundred grams of butter, two hundred grams of sugar and a spoonful of soda in a saucepan, put it in a water bath. It is necessary to constantly stir the mass. Seven minutes later, when it becomes homogeneous, you need to remove the saucepan from the fire, introduce three hundred and fifty grams of flour. Stir the dough and refrigerate. Before baking, let it reach room temperature. We fix the form with parchment, put three or four spoons of the resulting dough there. Then we distribute them over the entire diameter. We bake each cake for five minutes at 180 C. Now we collect a honey cake with prunes and walnuts. We smear the cakes with sour cream, to which we add the chopped nuts and prunes. Decorate the top of the honey cake with boiled condensed milk or whipped cream, and the sides with crumbs.
Cake with prunes and walnuts "Curly Pincher"
How to cook this product with the original name? A handful of prunes are soaked in water with the addition of three tablespoons of cognac. Knead the sour cream dough, as in the recipe above. We bake the first cake. Add cocoa to the remaining dough. Oven and him. When the chocolate cake has cooled, cut into cubes. Beat half a liter of sour cream with a glass of icing sugar. Mix with chopped prunes and a handful of crushed nuts. We introduce pieces of chocolate cake there. Then we proceed as in the Pancho recipe: cover the bowl with cling film, spread the cream, cover with white cake. We soak it with cognac liquid remaining from prunes. We send it to the refrigerator for half an hour. Turn over and remove the film. We decorate the homemade cake with prunes and walnuts with icing or sour cream with gelatin.