Life is terribly unfair to lovers of sweets and butter! If you eat a lot of such goodies, then you can get better, get a whole bunch of various troubles, such as diabetes and diathesis. "Cherry on the cake" is an allergic reaction and cellulite on the hips. But sometimes you can treat yourself to an unusual dessert! But what if you combine business with pleasure and prepare a pancake cake ?! Chocolate cream will also be in place. The reaction of relatives in full will justify the costs!
Option advantage
Of course, it’s easier to buy a cake than to make it, but it will be a factory product, prepared according to a proven method with the addition of various substitutes for milk fat, preservatives and other elements. A homemade chocolate pancake cake can be prepared with a minimum of fat. The amount of ingredients may be variable. For those who follow the figure, you can find low-calorie analogues of products. For diabetics, use sugar substitutes. And for children who are sometimes so difficult to make to eat, the cake can be used as bait, but at the same time “flavor” it with honey, fresh and dry fruits.
The beauty of the process
The real family business is making chocolate pancake cake. Its recipe is so simple that it can be reproduced on a hunch. A lot of time the work will not take, and there is a lesson for every member of the family. Children can be entrusted with the fragrant work of whipping chocolate cream. You just need to make sure that they do not destroy the entire cream in the process, otherwise the cake will be dry. Still, it is better to entrust the baking of pancakes to a professional, as they should be ruddy, smooth and beautiful. Ready pancakes eventually gather in the turret, which can be done together.
Expenses
A small pancake cake with chocolate cream will require about 20 pancake pancakes. The thinner the pancakes will be, the better the cake will permeate.
The recipe assumes the presence of:
- One and a half glasses of flour. Most often, wheat is used, but buckwheat and oat are allowed.
- One tablespoon of cocoa and two tablespoons of powdered sugar.
- Three chicken eggs.
- A pinch of salt.
- Half a liter of milk of medium fat content.
- Two tablespoons of butter.
- Three spoons of port or dark rum, as well as a bar of dark chocolate.
It will take about three hours to complete the work, provided that you have to start by preparing the dough, which, in turn, should "rest".
Process started
Many housewives, in the old fashioned way, prefer to make the dough for pancakes manually, hoping that the dough should “absorb” the culinary spirit of the cook, which is impossible when using technical gadgets. But for efficiency it is better to use a mixer. So the dough will be homogeneous, without lumps. By consistency, it should resemble sour cream of medium density. After mixing, the dough should rest in the cold for an hour, and preferably two. Slimming sweet tooth can slightly “lighten” the recipe by eliminating egg yolks, sugar, and fat milk from the recipe. The use of mineral water with gas for the base of pancakes will also reduce the calorie content.
It's time to heat the pan to bake pancakes. First, the pan needs to be greased with oil so that the pancakes do not burn. To make the finished product juicy and appetizing, you need to lay pancakes with pieces of butter. Collecting a pancake chocolate cake is still too early, as the pancakes should cool.
Cooking cream
If you cook a “quick” cake for breakfast, then there may not be enough time to prepare the cream. Then you can greatly simplify the process of collecting cake and replace the cream with chocolate paste or regular condensed milk with cocoa. Whipped cream will do. Preparing a cream, by the way, is not at all difficult. But then it takes some time. Bring to room temperature natural yogurt mixed with sugar, a drop of vanilla, and possibly cinnamon. At the same time, in a steam bath, melt half the chocolate bar with a small portion of milk and butter. All ingredients must be mixed with a mixer. An ordinary rolling pin can chop a handful of walnuts into small crumbs and pour them into a cream. For greater strength of the cream, instead of milk, the use of fat cream is allowed. With them you get a particularly airy chocolate pancake cake. The recipe with the photo can be saved in a personal archive in order to further indulge your home with a gentle dessert or use the cream for other sweet dishes. The cream must be whipped for at least ten minutes, and then sent to the refrigerator for solidification.
We build a work of culinary art
To collect a pancake chocolate cake, you need a large plate. The basis is better to put a thicker pancake, and then lubricate it with a ready-made cream. A pair of tablespoons of cream is enough for one pancake. It is necessary to carefully smear the edges of the pancake, but do not press so that the cream does not leak through the layer. Grease the stack completely, excluding the upper pancake, and then grease the sides with the rest of the cream. Ready pancake cake. The chocolate layer on top can be decorated additionally. To do this, in the refrigerator, you should look for a piece of milk chocolate or several cookies without a layer. Chocolate and baking need to grind into crumbs and fill the top of the cake. The dream of a sweet tooth turns out to be wet, so do not hesitate to send it to the refrigerator, where the layers will solidify, completely soaking. Pancake cake also absorbs smells, so it is better to exclude the unpleasant proximity of the dessert to the first and second courses. Bon appetit and further culinary achievements!