Cake with raisins and nuts

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   With boiling water and add a little brandy to impregnate the raisins, leave the raisins to swell for half an hour.

2. Step 2:

   

   Then drain the liquid from the bowl with raisins, grind the raisins with a blender to a puree state.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add a little lemon juice to the raisins and pour in the milk. Mix thoroughly, then add the soda and mix again.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash the walnuts, dry them in a microwave oven or in a dry frying pan. Grind walnuts with a blender or rolling pin into crumbs.

5. Step 5:

   

   Proceed to the preparation of the dough.

6. Step 6:

   

   We drive chicken eggs into the blender bowl, add sugar and whisk with a whisk until a thick foam forms.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pour the egg mixture into a large bowl, pour in the sifted wheat flour and gently mix the ingredients so that the dough does not settle.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add the raisin mass and chopped walnuts to the dough and mix gently again so that the additives evenly disperse throughout the dough.

10. Step 9:

    

    We cover the baking dish with parchment, lubricate it with oil. I have a detachable mold with a diameter of 25 cm. I decided to bake one large cake, and then cut it into three like a regular sponge cake. But this dough, unlike the classic biscuit, is heavy due to the addition of nuts and raisins, it is difficult for it to rise when baking, so the biscuit turned out not as high as I expected, it was quite difficult to cut such a cake into three.

11. Step 10:

    

    It is better to divide the dough into three parts and bake each cake separately. Bake cakes at a temperature of 190 degrees for about 20 minutes each cake. Readiness can be checked with a wooden toothpick.

12. Step 11:

    

    Ready-made cakes are cooled. Meanwhile, prepare the cream for the cake. Creamy cream perfectly complements the taste of a biscuit with walnuts and raisins. In a deep bowl, put the cooled thick cream (I have 30% fat content), add sugar or powdered sugar and a thickener for cream, vanilla. Beat the ingredients with a mixer until the mass becomes thick.

13. Step 12:

    

    Starting to assemble the cake. The cooled cakes are soaked with sugar or cherry syrup.

14. Step 13:

    

    Smear with chilled buttercream and stack. Top and sides of the cake are smeared with cream.

15. Step 14:

    

    You can decorate the cake at your discretion, I sprinkled grated bitter chocolate. Let the cake soak in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours and serve it to the table. Have a nice tea party!