Smetannik per GOST
Description
It goes perfectly with tea and coffee. You don’t need any special skills to make sour cream cake, and the ingredients are the simplest kind—you’ll find them in every home—yet the result is a beautiful, delicious pie, almost a cake. Step-by-step instructions will help you make this wonderful pie, which is ideal for a family get-together or a friendly tea party.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Crack the eggs into the bowl for the dough and beat them until foamy.
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Step 3
Gradually add the sugar, continuing to beat until light and fluffy.
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Step 4
Pour in the melted butter. The butter must not be hot. Add 200 grams of sour cream of any fat content and beat everything together.
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Step 5
Add a pinch of salt, vanilla sugar, and baking soda slaked in vinegar to the dough, and mix.
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Step 6
Add the flour, mix the dough until smooth.
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Step 7
Line the bottom of the baking dish with parchment paper, grease the dish with butter, and dust lightly with flour; tap off the excess flour. Put the dough into the prepared dish and level the top. Bake in the oven at 180°C for about 45 minutes. Doneness can be checked with a wooden toothpick.
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Step 8
While the sponge cake bakes, prepare the sour cream frosting. To do this, whip cold sour cream (from the refrigerator) with powdered sugar and vanilla sugar. You may substitute granulated sugar for the powdered sugar; in that case, whip until the sugar dissolves. Refrigerate the finished frosting until you are ready to use it.
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Step 9
Cool the finished cake layer, then cut it in two. Trim off the top part of the layer to make crumbs.
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Step 10
Spread half of the sour cream cream on the bottom layer. Place the second layer on top and spread the cream over the top of the smetannik.
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Step 11
Break the trimmed part of the layer into pieces and place in a blender.
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Step 12
Crumble the sponge cake into crumbs.
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Step 13
Sprinkle the top of the sour cream cake with biscuit crumbs. Let the pie rest in the refrigerator for about 2 hours so the sour cream cream soaks well into the cake layers.
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Step 14
The finished sour cream cake can be decorated as you like with fresh berries, various sprinkles, chocolate pieces, and nuts. Such a simple yet beautiful and delicious pie can even be served at a festive table.