Video recipes: how to bake chocolate cake
The easiest way to quickly and easily master the intricacies of the culinary process is to watch video recipes. Recommendations from experienced confectioners and visual demonstrations will help simplify the preparation and preparation of a delicious delicacy.
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Cake with cherries and sour cream
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With the addition of your own sweets
Sweets are the best decoration for a children's birthday cake.
We offer a recipe for an original dessert decorated with sweets. The children will be wildly delighted!
Ingredients for the crust:
- condensed milk – 1 can;
- egg – 1 pc.;
- flour – 3 tbsp;
- soda 1 tsp.
Ingredients for cream:
- milk – 2.5 tbsp;
- butter – 200 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- sugar – 2 tbsp;
- flour - 4 tbsp. l.;
- vanilla – 1 sachet.
Ingredients for decoration:
- candies of different colors.
Preparation:
- In a bowl, mix condensed milk, egg, flour and slaked soda.
- Divide the resulting mass into 8 balls, roll each one so that it can be fried in a frying pan. These are cakes.
- Mix all the ingredients for the cream, beat thoroughly with a mixer.
- Coat each cake with the resulting cream, add fruit if desired.
- Decorate the last cake with sweets, chocolates and kinders. Take different colors to make the delicacy original.
A cake made from Kinders and chocolates with your own hands is ready!
Making chocolate figures for cake decoration
Making figures from tempered chocolate is one way to effectively decorate a homemade dessert. Decorating cakes with homemade sweets is quick and easy. But you will need special molds, preferably silicone. They are called molds. You can buy molds in the form of any figure - shells, hearts, birds and many others. It's a pleasure to work with them.
Procedure:
- melt the sweet tiles in a water bath;
- pour into dry, clean molds;
- level the top;
- let the mixture harden at room temperature or in the refrigerator.
Then carefully remove the homemade sweets. Start decorating the cakes.
In silicone molds, the candies are voluminous and large. Thinner options are made using plastic molds. These are various kinds of lattices, drops, flower petals.
M&M spills out of the bag
It has become popular to use M&M sweets instead of bars and candies. Multi-colored jelly beans cover the desserts and pour straight out of the bag. How to make a three-dimensional figure of falling candies:
- Decorate the top of the cake with dragees. Insert a cocktail straw into the center. Firm it tightly into the biscuit.
- Place an empty M&M bag over the straw;
- Glue the dragee in a heap around the stick with melted chocolate, like glue.
There should be less candy at the bottom than at the top. This will give the impression that the dragees themselves have spilled out of the bag.
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How to make with cookies
No-bake cakes are always relevant, because they do not require much time to prepare, and even the most inexperienced housewife can make them. Let's try to make a similar delicacy based on cookies.
Ingredients:
- cookies with baked milk flavor – 700 g;
- sour cream – 3 tbsp;
- sugar – 1.5 tbsp;
- vanillin – 1 sachet;
- bananas – 3 pcs.;
- chocolate – 2 pcs.;
- candies for decoration.
Preparation:
- In a bowl, combine sour cream, sugar and vanilla, whisk thoroughly until all ingredients are dissolved in sour cream.
- In the future, for convenience, take a baking sheet. Place the first layer of cookies, brush with prepared cream, and add sliced banana.
- Place a second layer of cookies on top of the cream and banana, brush it again, but this time place chocolate bars instead of fruit.
- Alternate foods until you run out of cookies.
- Decorate the last layer with sweets, chocolates, berries and fruits. Place in the refrigerator for several hours to soak.
The cake made from chocolates and sweets is ready!
A dessert like this will be an excellent solution when you need to take a cake to kindergarten.
What kind of chocolate is suitable for decorating a cake?
For decoration, take the types of chocolate that you like. Dark, milky or white will do. If the dessert is being prepared for a child, it is preferable not to use dark dessert. Or mix dark and white chocolate, you will get something in between in color and taste.
It is convenient to use chocolate in drops, dragees or pieces. They are easy to melt and prepare creams and ganaches.
Along with natural chocolate, confectionery bars are used. They are more affordable and great for home use. The difference between these tiles in the composition is the replacement of cocoa butter with vegetable fats. Such products differ little in taste from natural tiles, but are less capricious in operation.
Chocolate creams and ganache are used to cover the base and cake layers. And for decoration, decorating the cake with candies and chocolate is great.
What candies are suitable for decorating cakes:
- "M&M";
- "KitKat";
- "Raffaello";
- kinder surprise (including chocolate eggs);
- round or teardrop-shaped candies.
This is a selection of the most popular jewelry. Do you have a box of other chocolates? Put them into the confectionery business. And also pretzel cookies, sweet rolls, marshmallows, marshmallow pieces, Oreo cookies, small waffles, medium-sized cookies. The composition will be complemented by sweet candied fruits and nuts.
It turns out original if you cover the top and sides of the cake with pieces of chocolate bars with filling. And a simple sponge cake will be transformed into a work of culinary art.
We make a cake from sweets and juice with a surprise
On September 15th my son turned 10 years old! I wanted to make something special for him and, of course, with my own hands! I recently saw interesting candy cakes on the Internet. And I decided - this is it! Here's what I got.
To begin with, I figured out what size the cake would be, arranging approximately the juice.
I cut the 1st tier to size. The height became the height of the juice.
To glue the side part to the round bases, “teeth” were needed. I glued the parts together with a glue gun.
But it wasn’t very clever, because the first time I glued it with it, I then glued the parts together with wide double-sided tape.
I covered the resulting base with white paper (with double-sided tape)
I made the second tier in its likeness, and realized that it was not the first and second tiers that turned out, but the second and third... The main first tier was made of corrugated cardboard to support the entire structure, since the juice block is still too heavy for a simple cardboard.
I taped the folds of the boxes with tape to reduce bending.
For the side I picked up cardboard with vertical longitudinal stripes to prevent it from bending.
I left a “window” for a surprise. You can also put things there that won’t fit on the cake.
I glued the tiers together with double-sided tape. She began laying out treats. I realized that the juice was too heavy for gluing with glue; an additional structure was required under it, such as a tray made of thick cardboard, so that the juice would not fall off. And changed the location.
I cut out a decoration for the base from corrugated paper. A little wider so that when the edges are folded, they cover the entire base. I folded the edges with a pencil, twisted a “petal” onto it and pressed it from the sides to the center.
The same system worked for candy flowers as for decorating the base. Corrugated paper was rolled onto the candy and secured with a glue gun. The resulting flower was held together, for reliability, by wrapping it with transparent tape.
I inserted the finished flowers into the spaces between the juice and the cake.
Over time, I decided to make the petals longer. I chose more voluminous flowers for the top tier.
I left a large clothespin in a surprise place so that the child could easily find it. One of the gifts was a punching bag, so I thought about putting boxing gloves in the cake. But already the day before the birthday, both the punching bag and the gloves had already been tested, and there would have been no surprise. Therefore, there were only bags of cookies and a single straw that had fallen off from the juice.
In the end, this is the cake that came out! The child was delighted! He was pleased that I paid so much attention to preparing for his birthday. He came up, looked and admired, rejoiced that it was collected for him personally by his mother’s hands!
My husband also had a hand in creating the cake! He went to the store for packaging film, but didn’t find a transparent one... But he found a baking sleeve. It was very useful!
The cake turned out to be heavy. I brought it to my son’s class and everyone gasped. All the time, the cake was the center of attention and admiration, and Nikita told everything about it. He was incredibly happy about the attention and admiration of his classmates!
At the end of the day, Nikita never tired of repeating that it was his best birthday ever! And this is the best thing that parents can hear from their child on such a day.
Thank you for your attention! Good luck in your creativity!
Step-by-step chocolate cake recipe for one, two, three
This recipe is one of the best homemade chocolate cake recipes. The secret of its popularity among housewives is simple - the absence of any complex techniques and absolutely accessible ingredients. Literally speaking, in order to enjoy a delicious moist chocolate sponge cake, you just need to mix all the ingredients and put the dough in the oven. A nice bonus: the cake is both tender and juicy, so it does not require any additional impregnations or creams.
Required ingredients:
- flour - 250 gr.
- cocoa - 50 gr.
- sugar - 300 gr.
- eggs - 2 pcs.
- butter - 60 gr.
- olive oil - 60 gr.
- milk - 280 ml.
- vanilla extract - 2 tsp.
- wine vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
- soda - 1.5 tsp.
- salt - 1 tsp.
Step by step recipe
- First, combine all the dry ingredients together: flour, sugar, soda, salt, cocoa. Mix until smooth.
- Then add eggs, warm butter, milk, olive oil and vanilla extract. At the end, pour in a little wine vinegar.
On a note! Instead of wine vinegar, you can use any other vinegar. The main thing is that it should be weak - no more than 6%.Now mix everything thoroughly. The most convenient way to do this is with a mixer. Don't be alarmed by lumps and oily spots - after just 2-3 minutes of beating with a mixer, the cake dough will become homogeneous and smooth.
- Place parchment on the bottom of the pan.
This amount of dough is enough for 1 large 20 cm mold or two smaller 16 cm molds. Important! Do not fill the pan more than halfway; the cake will approximately double in size during baking. - Bake the chocolate cake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes. We check the readiness of the biscuit, as usual, with a wooden skewer - it should be completely dry.
- Take out the finished biscuit and let it cool on a wire rack. Then wrap the cake in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. This little trick will keep your chocolate cake moist on the inside and dry on the outside.
- Decorate the chocolate cake with melted chocolate or powdered sugar. If desired, decorate with berries and fruits.
Cherry Chocolate Black Forest Cake
The famous "Black Forest" is sometimes also called the "Black Forest". This name comes from the German language, since Germany is considered the birthplace of this cake. This recipe is noticeably more complicated than the previous one and will require some experience and culinary skills.
The peculiarity of this cake is that cherries are used in its preparation, which adds a piquant sourness to the taste and creates a magical combination with dough and chocolate cream. Homemade “Black Forest” will pleasantly surprise all guests and family members.
For it you need:
- 400 g cherries;
- 250 g sugar;
- 800 ml cream;
- 7 tbsp. l. powdered sugar;
- 6 eggs;
- 100 g flour;
- 30 g cocoa powder;
- 80 g butter;
- 150 g of chocolate with cocoa content 90-95%;
- several canned cherries.
Cooking time: 2.5 hours.
Calorie content: 450 kcal per serving.
How to make chocolate cake with cherries and chocolate cream:
- Bake the biscuit base of the dessert in advance. She must lie down for some time, so it is better to prepare her in the evening;
- Cut the cake into three layers;
- Wash the cherries and cover with sugar, leave for half an hour. Juice is formed;
- Cook the syrup: first cook the juice with sugar until thick, then add the cherries. Cook a little more. Turn off the heat and let cool, remove the whole cherries;
- Mix chocolate cream from chocolate, cream and powdered sugar. Heat, then cool until thickened. Lightly beat the finished cream;
- Next, you can start designing the cake. Pour cherry syrup over the bottom cake and spread with a thick layer of cream. Repeat the same with the middle crust. The top layer only needs to be soaked in syrup and greased with whipped cream;
- Decorate the dessert with the remaining cream, grated chocolate and canned cherries.
Delicious and unusual chocolate cake is ready to eat!