The most delicious and easiest cake to make is Sour Cream, which was prepared by our mothers and grandmothers from the remnants of sour cream to make their children and grandchildren happy. And although now there are already many recipes for this amazing dessert, the classic recipe for Sour Cream will never go out of style.
Essential Ingredients
Before you start making a cake, you should see if we have enough ingredients for it. Of course, the components for Sour Cream need the simplest, but all products have the ability to end. So before you start cooking, you need to check the recipe for Sour cream cake and buy all the ingredients that are missing.
And we need such components to create a dessert:
- 100 grams of butter or margarine;
- 3 cups flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 cup sour cream with a fat content of 15-20%;
- half a liter of sour cream with a fat content of 30%;
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder or slaked soda;
- 2 glasses of water;
- 2 or 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder;
- 2 cups of sugar.
Cooking dough for shortcakes
The preparation of any cake begins with the manufacture of the dough. Creating a "Sour Cream" according to the classic simple recipe will not be an exception. To make shortcake dough for this dessert, break eggs into a container where we will cook it, put sour cream with a lower fat content and add sugar. We thoroughly beat all this manually or with the help of a mixer, which will facilitate our work. The whipping process will continue until all sugar crystals have dissolved. Next, we melt the butter or margarine over the fire, add it to the container for mixing the dough and beat well again. And at the final stage, soda and sifted flour are placed in the bowl, after which it remains only to knead the dough thoroughly so that there is not a single lump left in it, and by consistency it resembled thick sour cream.
Bake cakes
As soon as the dough prepared according to the classic recipe “Sour cream” is done, we grease the cake baking dish with butter and pour exactly half of our dough. Then this mold is sent to the oven preheated to a temperature of 190 0 , where the cake baking process will take place for 15 minutes.
In the meantime, the dough is baking, we will do the second half of our dough, where, in accordance with the recipe for sour cream at home, you will need to pour cocoa powder. After adding it, the dough is beaten well again and acquires a pleasant color of milk chocolate. As soon as we do this, our first cake is baked, so that we take it out of the oven, and put a mold with chocolate dough there, which will also be baked for 15 minutes at a temperature of 190 0 .
Cooking cream
While the second cake is baking, we can prepare an airy, sweet cream that will soak the cake. In accordance with the recipe "Sour cream", for its manufacture it will be necessary to beat sugar with sour cream in a mixer, in which the percentage of fat content is higher. Well, if it is homemade thick sour cream. So the cream will be the fattest and can better soak the cake, making it especially tasty. Beating sour cream with sugar is on average until the sugar grains are completely dissolved. If desired, cinnamon or vanillin can be added to the cream, so it will be even more aromatic.
Making a cake
After we made the cream, we can form our cake, focusing on the recipe “Sour cream” with a photo where you can see that this dessert consists of four tiers with cream in between. The first step at this stage is to carefully cut each of the two cakes in half so that we can get two white biscuits and two chocolate cakes with the sharpest kitchen knife. After that, we take one of the chocolate biscuits and thoroughly coat it with cream on top. Then we put on it one of the light cake layers, which is also smeared with sour cream. Next, chocolate cake is laid again, then cream again, and finally white cake. After that, the whole cake is completely smeared with cream.
We decorate "Sour cream"
But if you just cook the usual “Sour cream” according to the classic recipe, then the dessert will look too casual. Therefore, in order for it to become a real decoration of any table, the cake should be decorated. The decoration can be chocolate chips, biscuit chips, chopped walnuts or fruits. There is already no limit to imagination, everyone can diversify and design the appearance of the dessert as he likes, focusing only on his preferences or desires of the person for whom the cake is created. The only thing, if you sprinkle dessert with chocolate chips, it is better to take milk chocolate and rub it on a medium grater. If you take sponge cake, it is better to take an equal amount of chocolate and regular crumbs, from which you can then draw some pattern on top of the cake. And if the cake is decorated with nuts, then first it is better to fry them, and then chop finely.
A simple recipe for Sour Cream in a slow cooker
However, a delicious sour cream cake can be cooked not only in the oven, but also in a slow cooker, which will significantly save our efforts and time spent on its preparation. True, his recipe will be slightly different from the classic. Here we will need all the same ingredients as in the main recipe. Yes, and the process of preparing the dough will completely coincide, however, cocoa powder will need to be added immediately during kneading, and not wait until one half of the dough is baked, since we will bake it all at once.
So, having made the dough according to the recipe for sour cream at home, you can begin to bake a single cake. To do this, we knock everything that we knocked into a multicooker bowl greased with butter or margarine, set the timer for 50 minutes and select the “Baking” mode on the device, after which we calmly go off to do our business. As the slow cooker signals that the time is up, the cake is removed, turned over and sent back to the slow cooker on the other side, after which we again select the “Baking” mode, but set the timer for 10 minutes.
While the biscuit will be baked, you can safely prepare the cream for the dessert according to the classic recipe. And as time runs out, you will first need to let the cake cool slightly, then cut it into 3 parts with a sharp knife and coat each part with sour cream. Cake is decorated, again, according to your imagination.
Cooking according to the classic recipe "Sour cream" in a pan
It happens that you want to bake a cake, but now there is no way to make it either in a slow cooker or in an oven. However, this is not a reason to give up and leave the preparation of the recipe for later. After all, every housewife has a frying pan, and if there is one, then the cake can be easily prepared. The cream in this case is prepared according to the standard recipe, but for the test you will need:
- 100 grams of margarine;
- 80 grams of sour cream with a fat content of 15%;
- 100 grams of sugar;
- one testicle;
- 260 grams of flour;
- half a teaspoon of soda.
If you have these ingredients and a pan with a Teflon coating, then you just need to follow the step-by-step recipe for “Sour cream”, without ever departing from it. In accordance with the recipe, first you will need to melt the margarine and grate it with sugar, and then add the egg with sour cream to them and thoroughly beat all the ingredients. Next, mix the flour with slaked soda in another bowl, add it to the liquid mixture and knead the dough so thick that it can form a ball from it. We put this ball aside for an hour, and then make 6 identical lumps out of it, which are then rolled into a flat cake. We are frying these cakes in a pan, and we turn them over and remove them from the fire immediately, as the first bubbles form there. Well, after frying the cakes, we collect them in one cake, lubricating each cake with pre-made cream.
Tatar "Sour Cream"
If you are tired of cooking according to the classic recipe “Sour cream”, you can cook this dessert according to the Tatar recipe. In this case, for the test and filling, we need:
- a glass of milk;
- 60 grams of butter;
- 7 tablespoons of sugar;
- 400 grams of flour;
- 7 grams of dry yeast;
- salt on the tip of a knife;
- half the zest of one lemon;
- 500 grams of sour cream;
- 4 eggs;
- a bag of vanillin.
The first step is to heat the milk, add a tablespoon of sugar and yeast, and then you will need to wait a bit for the yeast to rise. Then melt the butter, combine it with grated lemon peel and add all these ingredients to the sifted flour. We also add salt there and knead the dough for three minutes. Further, according to the Tatar recipe “Sour cream”, we form a ball from the dough and put it aside for a couple of hours.
As the time comes to bake a pie, we begin to prepare the filling for it. To do this, first beat the eggs, then add sour cream to them, continuing to beat, and then, without stopping this process, gradually add sugar to the filling. We finish the cooking process when the mixture becomes thick and uniform. Then it remains only to roll out our dough, put it in a greased form, lifting it around the edges, and pour into it the just made filling. Dessert is baked for half an hour at a temperature of 180 0 C.
"Sour cream" with chocolate icing
For lovers of chocolate, you can slightly diversify the classic recipe “Sour cream”, covering the cake not with ordinary sour cream, but with chocolate icing. True, for this you will have to spend a little more time, because the glaze will need to be prepared separately, in addition to creating sour cream and dough. And we will need such components for its creation as:
- 50 grams of butter;
- 2 tablespoons of milk;
- 4 tablespoons of sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder.
The cake itself and cream for him in this case are prepared according to the standard recipe "Sour cream". But for the glaze we need a small iron pan, in which we have to first melt the oil, and, as it melts, add the rest of the ingredients. After that, you will need to take a spoon and begin to stir the mixture, without stopping, until it boils. Then the fire must be turned off, and immediately pour icing on the cake until it turns into a frozen mass.
Mistress note
To make sour cream cake always excellent, you should know some important rules in addition to the “Sour cream” recipe.
- When preparing the cream, it is better to take not ordinary sugar, but icing sugar, so the process of its creation will go much faster.
- So that after whipping sour cream, it does not turn into oil and does not exfoliate, it is worth cooling it a little.
- Sour cream for cream made according to the classic recipe “Sour cream” should be thick, so if it has a watery consistency, gelatin or thickener should be added to it.
- When baking a cake, in no case should you open the oven door so that the dough does not settle or become uneven.
- If after baking a cake he had a convex hat, then before forming a cake it will need to be cut with a sharp knife.
- To extinguish soda before laying it in the dough, you need either lemon juice or vinegar.
- If desired, crushed dried apricots, raisins or walnuts can be added to the dough made according to the classic recipe “Sour cream”, which will add some zest to the cake.