Chocolate cake
Description
Perfect with tea and coffee. Chocolate cake "Marquis" will be highly appreciated by all chocolate lovers. This cake will let you show your imagination in decorating it. It can be decorated with fresh berries, fruits, nuts, pieces of tasty cookies, or chocolate. You can leave it undecorated, as it is already good on its own. And it is very easy to make using this step-by-step recipe. The baked dessert is ready. Serve it to the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Mix the dry ingredients for making the sponge cake: 300 grams of sugar, 250 grams of flour, 50 grams of cocoa, baking soda, vanilla sugar, and salt.
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Step 3
Whisk the eggs.
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Step 4
Add vegetable oil and softened butter (60 grams) to the beaten eggs, then beat everything together.
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Step 5
Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and whisk everything together. Lastly, pour in the vinegar and mix.
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Step 6
Prepare a baking pan for the sponge cake. Grease it with butter and lightly dust with flour. You can bake the sponge cake in one go if the pan is tall, or split it into 2 batches if the pan is shallow. Pan diameter is 22 cm. Bake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
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Step 7
Cool the finished sponge cake completely to room temperature. If time permits, you can wrap the sponge cake in plastic wrap and let it rest for 6–8 hours.
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Step 8
To prepare the cream, pour condensed milk, 80 ml of water, and 100 grams of sugar into a saucepan, then heat until boiling.
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Step 9
Separately mix 50 grams of cocoa powder and 2 tablespoons of flour.
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Step 10
Gradually pour the hot mixture into the dry mixture in batches and stir.
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Step 11
Knead the chocolate mixture until smooth, then cool it to room temperature.
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Step 12
Whip 250 grams of room-temperature butter until fluffy.
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Step 13
Add the chocolate mixture, cooled to room temperature, to the butter.
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Step 14
Whip the cream until smooth. For the cream to have the right consistency, both the butter and the chocolate mixture must be at the same room temperature. This is important!
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Step 15
Cut the sponge cake into 3 or 4 layers. Spread the layers with chocolate cream. Before slicing, cut off the top of the sponge cake; it will be useful for making sponge crumbs. It is better to use the lower even part of the sponge cake for the top of the cake.
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Step 16
Spread cream over the top and sides of the cake.
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Step 17
Place the cut-off top of the sponge cake into the blender bowl.
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Step 18
Grind the sponge cake into crumbs. Sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with sponge cake crumbs.
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Step 19
The sponge cake covered in crumbs is already ready to serve; it is complete in both taste and appearance. But during berry season, I suggest this decorating option, which will make your cake even more attractive. Take fresh strawberries and 100 grams of chocolate (white, dark, milk, any kind).
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Step 20
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or microwave, dip the strawberries in the melted chocolate, and let them set on a rack. You can pipe a lattice of white or dark chocolate over the dark chocolate.
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Step 21
Arrange the chocolate-covered strawberries on the cake; you can sprinkle them with crushed nuts. The cake is ready to serve. It looks magnificent, festive, and is also very delicious. Such a cake will undoubtedly decorate any праздничный table.