Probably, many housewives at least once tried to make a Prague cake. The classic recipe from Alla Kovalchuk will help you with this. This treat is prepared for 60 minutes. The cake belongs to the biscuit type. Cooking such a dessert requires certain skills.
What is needed for this
To prepare a Prague cake from Alla Kovalchuk, the recipe of which will be described below, you will need for the test:
- 40 grams of butter;
- 150 grams of granulated sugar;
- 8 chicken eggs;
- 2.5 large spoons of cocoa;
- 115 grams of flour;
- 100 grams of apricot jam.
How to make dough
So, how to cook Prague cake from Alla Kovalchuk? The recipe for this dessert is actually quite simple. To start, it’s worth preparing the dough. Pour the yolks into a deep bowl, and then beat with ½ of the indicated sugar volume. As a result, foam should appear. The rest of the sugar should be whipped with proteins until a stable foam is formed.
The flour should be sieved and mixed with cocoa. Gradually, the mixture must be introduced into the yolks. Mix the composition with a spoon. It is also necessary to carefully introduce a mixture of proteins and sugar into the resulting mass. All this needs to be mixed with a spoon. In an almost finished dough, you need to add melted butter. It remains to pour the biscuit dough into the prepared form. Bake at 180 ° C for half an hour.
How to soak cakes
To impregnate a biscuit you will need:
- 5 tablespoons of granulated sugar;
- 7 tablespoons of water;
- 2 tablespoons of brandy.
Pour granulated sugar with water and then bring to a boil. Add cognac to the resulting syrup. That's all, the impregnation is ready.
What is needed for cream
It is difficult to imagine a Prague cake without cream from Alla Kovalchuk. Its recipe includes the following components:
- the yolk of one egg;
- 120 grams of condensed milk;
- 20 grams of water;
- 200 grams of butter;
- vanillin;
- 10 grams of cocoa.
Cooking cream
In a deep container, you need to combine the yolk and water. Mix everything and pour in condensed milk. The resulting composition must be put on fire and cook until it becomes thicker. Beat vanilla sugar with butter. In the resulting mass, add the mixture and mix again. In the finished cream, pour cocoa.
How to make icing
Prague cake from Alla Kovalchuk, the recipe of which can be mastered even by a beginner in the confectionery business, must necessarily be covered with glaze. To prepare it, you need:
- 60 grams of butter;
- 100 grams of black chocolate.
In a water bath, melt the butter. Black chocolate should be added to the resulting composition. When the components have completely melted, you can mix everything gently until a uniform color is obtained. Glaze should not be prepared in advance, since it will harden and it will be impossible to apply it on cakes.
How to make a cake
The preparation of a Prague cake from Alla Kovalchuk does not cause any particular difficulties. From the finished biscuit, you need to make three neat cakes. Each of the layers obtained must be soaked in syrup and coated with cream. Side and top should be coated with apricot jam. The finished cake should be placed for 30 minutes in a cold place.
Soaked cakes should be coated with chocolate icing on top. You can decorate the finished cake if you wish. For this, chocolate figures in white or black are used.