The delicate taste of the Spartak cake will make any holiday truly joyful. It is difficult to say when he appeared, who invented this recipe and why he called it that. Spartak has long been among the most delicious and beloved desserts. His recipe is not one of the "fast." It takes from one and a half to three hours to make a cake. A few more hours are required for impregnation. And then the chocolate honey cake with custard will become so tender that it will "melt in the mouth." Cake recipe - in this article.
Cake cakes
Spartak, or rather the dough for it, is prepared in a thick-walled dish on a stove or in a water bath. This delicious honey cake is called by some "custard". It always turns out, the main thing is to remember simple rules. Remove eggs and dough oil from the refrigerator in advance. Baking soda in this recipe is not quenched with acid, but immediately put in the dough. And a few words about the water bath, which is mentioned in the cream recipe. The dough, if there is no thick-walled dishes, is prepared in a water bath. By the time when you need to place the egg-sugar mixture on it, the water in the lower bowl should boil. At the same time, it should not touch the dishes with the dough, otherwise it will warm up unevenly.
A cake will require 50 g of cocoa and 400 g of flour, 2 eggs and 100 g of butter, 90 ml of milk and 200 g of sugar, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, and the most important ingredient is honey, which will need 3 tablespoons, if it’s very thick, then use the scales - about 90 grams.
How to cook:
- First you need to sift half the specified portion of flour through a sieve, sift cocoa there too. Mix the dry mixture well.
- Grind the eggs in a small bowl with sugar. Add milk, butter and honey to the same dish. Mix thoroughly and put the dishes with the resulting mass on a small fire. Heat until sugar and butter are completely dissolved. No need to worry that the eggs will cook. This will not happen if the mixture is constantly stirred!
- Once the sugar and butter have dissolved, add soda and mix quickly. The mass will begin to foam and increase in volume. Keep the dishes with the mixture on fire for another 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool slightly (3-4 minutes).
- Add cocoa and flour to the cooled mass. Knead the dough. Knead with a spoon first, as the mass will still be hot.
- Sprinkle the table with flour and put warm dough, gradually add the remaining flour and knead. To make an elastic and soft dough, you can add more flour than specified in the recipe. Add flour gradually, making sure that the dough is elastic, soft and slightly sticky (the mass of the dough will be slightly similar to clay).
- In the cake "Spartak", in the classic version, 8 cakes. Therefore, roll the resulting dough into a bundle and cut into 8 equal parts. Cover the dough with cling film so that the dough pieces do not harden or dry out. Since the dough will harden as it cools and will be difficult to roll out, dishes with dough must be put on a pan with warm water - then it will be much easier to work with the dough.
- Roll out the dough on a countertop, sprinkled with flour, or on parchment paper. Since the cakes are very thin, it is difficult to roll out the dough, and it breaks, it is better to do it immediately on paper. And on top lay a cellophane film and roll cake through it.
- Place the desired diameter on the rolled cakes and carefully trim the excess dough. They can be baked as a separate cake and then used to decorate or sprinkle the finished cake. We remind you that excess dough can also be cut from ready-made, baked, crusts. Which is much more convenient.
- So, roll out the cakes rolled out and prepared for baking in several places with a knife or fork. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake cakes for 5 minutes.
- Allow ready cake to cool completely.
Custard
Since this cream is a gelatinous mass that does not preserve its shape, it is used not for decoration, but for interlayer cakes baked with the Spartak cake recipe. At home, it is easier to make custard. But it quickly turns sour, so making it better in the process of baking a cake. So that the custard does not burn, it is advisable to heat in a bowl with a thick bottom and stir not with a spoon or whisk, but with a wooden spatula, since it fits snugly to the bottom of the bowl. To prevent the formation of a crust on the surface, sprinkle the cream with sugar and stir during cooling. You can cover the dishes with cream cling film.
A cream recipe, which includes flour, is considered a classic. Many housewives add starch or a dry pudding mixture instead. Sweet tooth can prepare a cream, which includes condensed milk. With such a cream, a delicate and tasty cake is also obtained. Spartak is generally one of those cakes that always turn out. Sour cream is also suitable for him. You can add fresh berries to the cream.
Classic Cream Recipe
In the classic recipe for such a cream there is flour, it needs 100 grams. Also prepare half a liter of milk and 2 eggs. Butter needs about 200 grams, 150 grams of sugar and for flavoring vanilla sugar - 2 teaspoons.
How to cook:
- Stir all ingredients until smooth.
- Cook in a water bath until thickened. The mixture must be constantly stirred.
- Check the readiness of the cream with a spatula or whisk. When they can draw a line on the surface.
- Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. To prevent the film from appearing on the surface, stir the cream or cover it with a cellophane film during cooling.
- Beat butter until fluffy. Without stopping to whip the butter, add a little cooled mixture.
Spartak custard with pudding
It will take 1 bag of pudding, a ready-made dry mix that can be replaced with 40 grams of starch. Also, cream needs milk - 400 ml, 200 g of sugar, 2 eggs and butter - 250 grams. For flavoring: 10 grams of vanilla sugar.
How to cook:
- In a bowl, combine a bag of pudding with sugar, put vanilla here. Add eggs and grind into a homogeneous mixture with a whisk. Add a little warm but not hot milk, and mix well.
- Put the dishes with the mixture on a small fire and stir continuously, preventing the formation of lumps. As the mass thickens, remove from the stove.
- Cover the dishes with the mixture with a film so that a crust does not form on the surface of the mass. Cool.
- Beat butter until lush. Without stopping to whip the oil, add a little chilled mixture. Beat until smooth.
Cream with condensed milk
To prepare a cream with condensed milk, you need 1 can of this delicious ingredient, 2 eggs and 200 ml of milk. This recipe also contains flour, which will require 4 tablespoons, and 200 grams of butter.
How to cook:
- Mix eggs with flour and stir until smooth.
- Pour, stirring constantly, milk, and then condensed milk.
- Dishes with a mixture in a water bath. Stirring vigorously, cook the mixture until thickened.
- Remove from heat and refrigerate.
- Beat butter until fluffy and, while continuing to whip, add the cream mass in small portions.
Sour cream
Many dessert lovers prefer this particular cream. With sour cream, the Spartak cake is less high-calorie. Cooking it is easy. But knowledge of several important points to remember is necessary. Sour cream for cream should be fresh, without sharp acidity, fat content of at least 25%. Before whipping, sour cream must be cooled, whipping it is also recommended at low temperature. And remember that sour cream during storage is very unstable, and it is not recommended to store finished products with them for a long time. Unfortunately, it happens that the cream turns out to be liquidish, it depends on the quality of sour cream and technology. In order for the cream to turn out one hundred percent, you can add gelatin. Prepare the cream according to the recipe below and pour in a thin stream of gelatin solution. For the amount of sour cream indicated below, you will need gelatin - 4 tsp., Water or milk will require 100 ml.
Classic version
For sour cream, you need fresh, non-sour cream. It will require 900 grams, as well as powdered sugar (1 cup) and 20 grams of vanilla sugar.
How to cook:
- Put dishes with sour cream in dishes with cold water or on ice, whisk until lush foam, which will be held on the whisk.
- Sift the powder and mix with vanilla sugar with sour cream.
Chocolate glaze
For the preparation of fudge, it is advisable to use powdered sugar - 100 grams. If it is not, then the same amount of sugar will come down. You will also need 3 grams of cocoa, 75 ml of milk and 5 grams of butter.
How to cook:
- Add cocoa (sifted through a sieve), sugar (if using powder, sift) into the saucepan, and, stirring, pour milk. Boil the mass until thick. After boiling, keep on the fire for another 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and add oil to the still hot mixture, knead until it is completely dissolved.
- Cool and proceed to decorate the cake.
Assembly and decoration of the cake
Put the cake on the dish, grease with cream, put another cake, grease with cream again, then the third cake, cream - collect the whole cake. Pour the last crust with chocolate icing and gently smooth it on the surface. How to decorate? Spartak cake can be sprinkled with crumbs of crumbs or nuts, garnished with fruits and berries, chocolate glaze or sprinkled with powdered sugar through a stencil.