Cake with prunes and walnuts

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a cake with prunes and walnuts? The first step is to prepare a sponge cake. Prepare all the ingredients for it. Sift the flour through a sieve to saturate it with oxygen.

2. Step 2:

   

   In a whipping bowl, combine the eggs with sugar and whisk them at maximum power into a fluffy and airy mass.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a separate bowl, bring the milk and butter to a boil and let the butter melt completely. Alternately, add flour with soda and milk mixture to the egg mass. gently mix everything with a whisk, manually, so that the dough remains lush.

4. Step 4:

   

   Then stir in the cocoa. Cover the bottom of the detachable baking dish with cooking paper and put on the ring. Pour the dough into a mold (20 cm) and put it in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 45-60 minutes. Be guided by your oven. Cool the finished biscuit, then wrap it with cling film and put it in the refrigerator overnight so that it rests.

5. Step 5:

   

   Before assembling the cake, prepare everything necessary for the filling. Butter and cottage cheese should be at room temperature. It is advisable to cook boiled condensed milk yourself - this is tastier. Boil the closed jar in boiling water for 2 hours, then cool completely.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour boiling water over the prunes for 5 minutes. Then drain the water, rinse the prunes. And again fill it with fragrant alcohol. Let soak for 20-30 minutes. This step is optional. Chop the nuts a little with a knife and fry in a dry frying pan until a characteristic aroma appears. Pour the roasted nuts onto a plate so that they do not burn in a still hot frying pan.

7. Step 7:

   

   To prepare the cream, mix soft butter with boiled condensed milk. Then mix the curd cheese into the cream. To do this, you can use a mixer. It will seem that the cream is a little thin. It is ok. Everything will freeze well in the assembled cake. Set aside 1/3 of the cream to coat the cake.

9. Step 8:

   

   Remove the prunes from the alcohol, dry and finely chop. Mix the chopped nuts with prunes into the remaining 2/3 of the cream.

10. Step 9:

    

    Cut the rested biscuit into 4 cakes. Set aside one cake for sprinkling the cake. Soak the cakes with syrup. To do this, heat water with sugar and lemon juice so that the sugar dissolves. Then cool the syrup.

11. Step 10:

    

    The cake is convenient to assemble in a ring. Put the first cake on the bottom, a layer of filling. Then the second cake and another layer of filling.

12. Step 11:

    

    Put the third cake on top and smear it a little with a simple cream. Put the cake in the refrigerator for a few hours so that it freezes.

13. Step 12:

    

    Remove the frozen cake from the ring with a sharp knife. Lubricate it on the sides with the deferred cream. Put the leftovers on top.

14. Step 13:

    

    Chop the delayed cake and sprinkle the cake on the sides.

15. Step 14:

    

    Have a nice treat!