Prague cake with dark chocolate

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How is it quite simple to make the most delicate cake "Prague" from three sponge cakes with two layers of cream in chocolate glaze, which is sure to please many with its wonderful taste qualities? First of all, we prepare the necessary products for the preparation of a classic cake according to GOST.

2. Step 2:

   

   To prepare a biscuit dough, take a large bowl and break six chicken eggs into it, then add a pinch of salt to the bowl and beat the eggs with a mixer at low speed, then pour one hundred and fifty grams of sugar into the bowl in two or three doses.

3. Step 3:

   

   Continue to beat eggs with sugar at high speeds of the mixer for ten minutes until a fluffy white mass is formed.

4. Step 4:

   

   Take a small bowl and pour into it one hundred and ten grams of premium wheat flour, one teaspoon of starch, twenty-five grams of cocoa powder and mix all the ingredients well together, then take a fine sieve and sift the resulting mixture into a bowl with egg mass.

5. Step 5:

   

   Mix the dough very gently with a spatula with movements from the bottom up and keep it lush, then add thirty grams of softened butter to the dough and continue to mix all the ingredients together with a spatula from the bottom up.

6. Step 6:

   

   Take a mold of a suitable diameter and cover the bottom with parchment, then lubricate the sides of the mold with a small the amount of butter and spread the prepared dough into it.

7. Step 7:

   

   We send the form with the dough to the oven preheated to one hundred and seventy-five degrees and bake the biscuit at the oven level below the average for forty-forty-five minutes, after which the slightly cooled biscuit is released from the mold and cut into three even cakes.

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   To prepare the cream, put one egg yolk in a saucepan, then pour twenty-five milliliters of boiled water into it and mix with a whisk, then add one hundred and fifty grams of condensed milk to the saucepan and mix all the ingredients well with a whisk until smooth.

9. Step 9:

   

   To prepare the custard, put a saucepan on the stove, then constantly stir and boil the milk until thickened over medium heat of the stove.

10. Step 10:

    

    Take a fine sieve and sift twenty grams of cocoa powder into a saucepan, then mix all the ingredients together with a whisk until you get a chocolate base, which then cool.

12. Step 11:

    

    Put two hundred grams of softened butter in a deep bowl and beat it with a mixer, then add the chocolate base to the bowl and continue to beat with a mixer until a homogeneous cream is obtained.

13. Step 12:

    

    So that the cake does not turn out dry, soak the cakes abundantly with apricot syrup from jam diluted with warm boiled water.

14. Step 13:

    

    Start assembling the cake and spread the prepared creamy chocolate cream evenly on the first cake.

15. Step 14:

    

    Spread the middle cake on top and spread the second layer of cream evenly on it, then cover the top with the third cake and evenly distribute the remaining cream from the sides of the cake, which then put in the refrigerator for twenty minutes.

16. Step 15:

    

    To prepare the glaze, put one hundred and fifty grams of dark chocolate, seventy-five grams of butter in a saucepan and put it on the stove, then mix and melt the chocolate over a low heat of the stove, then cool it completely.

17. Step 16:

    

    After a while, lubricate the cake on top and sides with apricot jam made from jam, then remove the cake for twenty minutes in the refrigerator.

18. Step 17:

    

    After a while, apply the cooled glaze from the sides of the cake with a uniform layer and pour the rest on top of the cake, then distribute the glaze evenly.

19. Step 18:

    

    The tenderest chocolate cake "Prague" cut into portions and serve to the table.

20. Step 19:

    

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