Pastry
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. I will make the chocolate sponge cake using boiling water, and the cream will be made with sour cream! The sponge turns out extraordinarily tender, tasty, and airy! Of course, you can make a classic light sponge, then it’s better to choose a dark or colored cream. And the baking is ready. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the main ingredients.
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Step 2
Mix all the dry ingredients for the sponge cake: sifted flour, a cup of sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, soda.
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Step 3
Beat the egg with a fork or whisk together with milk and butter.
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Step 4
Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
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Step 5
Then pour in the boiling water and stir everything until smooth. Grease a 20–22 cm pan with vegetable oil, pour in the batter and bake in the oven for 50 minutes at 170 °C, or bake in a multicooker, as I do. In the multicooker, bake on the “Bake” setting for 50 minutes. Adjust to your oven/multicooker and test the sponge with a toothpick.
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Step 6
While the sponge cake is baking, let's make the cream. Whisk thick sour cream with sugar and vanilla sugar until the sugar dissolves. Cover with a lid and place it in the refrigerator. If the sour cream isn’t very thick, add a cream thickener.
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Step 7
Our sponge cake is ready! It turns out to be this chocolate beauty! Let it cool completely. Then we’ll continue working, or place it in the refrigerator, as mentioned in the recipe tip.
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Step 8
Cut the cooled sponge cake into three equal layers. One layer will yield 4–5 pastries, depending on the diameters of the molds you choose for the elements.
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Step 9
Put the cream into a pastry bag and make a small hole with scissors. For decorating the piglet, take three round molds of different diameters. Cut out three circles. Spread the cream on the middle circle and place it, cream side down, onto the large one.
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Step 10
Then spread the cream on the small circle and place it on top of the medium one, cream side down. It will form a kind of tower, which we will shape into a little pig using the cream.
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Step 11
Here’s the sponge‑cake pig we ended up with! I think the guests will like it, especially the kids!
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Step 12
Done. Serve at the table.