In this article we will tell you how to learn how to prepare a confectionery miracle - the Mikado cake according to the Armenian recipe. By the way, cakes with a similar recipe are known and popular not only in Armenia, but also in other countries under different names.
A little oddity of the name, some prepare a cream for this cake, using a simple mega-popular in the post-Soviet space delicacy - milk, condensed with sugar. Far from all to the taste of this product, because the flavor has a very specific: cloying and rather rude. That is why, probably, it is still better to use sour cream, cream or less fatty classic unsweetened yogurt . Such cream will turn out gentle, not cloying and not too fat.
Armenian cake "Mikado" - original classic recipe
Ingredients:
- butter natural - 150 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- wheat flour - 600 g;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- eggs of chicken - 2 pieces;
- cognac - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- food soda - 1 pinch;
- vanilla - 1 pinch;
- lemon juice;
For cream:
- cream thick - 100 ml;
- yogurt unsweetened - 200 ml;
- dark chocolate - large tiles;
- cognac - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Preparation
In a working bowl, we will rinse the butter with sugar, add eggs, sour cream, salt, soda juice, cognac and vanilla, which have been extinguished with lemon juice. All for a short while, but carefully mix it with a fork or at low speed. We knead the dough, pouring a little sifted flour. Com put the dough into the refrigerator under the film, cool down and move away.
Chocolate is grated on the grater. Cooking cream: warm the cream in a water bath, pour cognac, add chocolate (not all, leave for sprinkling), stir, bring to homogeneity. Slightly cool, add yogurt,
The cooled dough is divided into 10 approximately identical parts, each of them is rolled into a thin enough layer. We bake cakes in the oven each individually for 2.5-4 minutes, the optimum temperature is about 200 degrees. Carefully remove the cakes from the baking sheet, spread one on another, abundantly spreading the surface of each cream. The top cake is sprinkled with grated chocolate, then put the cake in the cool place for about an hour at 3. Cut the edges with a knife.
We serve the real Armenian cake "Mikado", of course, with strong coffee , brewed in a classical dzhezve.