For those who can not live without sweets "Drunken Cherry in Chocolate" there are favorite alcoholic and berry variations in both baked goods and desserts. Preparation of the cake "Drunken Cherry" takes quite a long time, and not so much the process as preparation for it - you must first insist on cherry on brandy, cool the cake well before working with it. This cake will not be done in an hour, and it is more suitable for family celebrations than for everyday tea drinking. But, believe me, the cake is simply magnificent and really deserves to accompany you only in the most joyful moments.
How to cook a cake "Drunken Cherry"?
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- egg - 3 pieces;
- sugar - 2 and 1/3 cup;
- flour - 3 cups;
- milk - 1 and 1/3 cup;
- vegetable oil (refined) - 3/4 cup;
- boiling water and 1/3 cup;
- cocoa - 13 tbsp. spoons;
- baking powder - 2 tsp;
- soda - 2 tsp.
For cream:
- butter - 250 g;
- condensed milk - 1 can (400 g);
- cocoa - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- cognac - 1 tbsp. spoons;
- cherries (can be frozen) - 3 glasses.
For glaze:
- chocolate bitter - 100 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- powdered sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- starch - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- cognac - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
First, let's figure out how to make a cherry "drunk". Remove the bones from the berries, leaving a dozen whole - for decoration. We spread separately the cleared cherries and with stones in 2 jars, we pour cognac so that berries are completely covered. Tightly close the lid and insist two days.
How to bake a biscuit for a cake "Drunken Cherry"?
- Of course, the cake should be very chocolate. Afraid or not like - reduce the number of spoons of cocoa.
- The recipe is designed for a shape 23 cm in diameter. It should be deep enough, the finished cake height is about 10 cm.
Preheating the oven to 220 degrees. Sift in a bowl of all dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, cocoa. Separately, lightly beat eggs, add vegetable oil and milk to them, mix well. Pour everything into the dry mixture. The dough should turn out thick, like a viscous porridge.
Add the steep boiling water, quickly pouring the dough into the parchment-covered form. Biscuit bake about an hour and a half at 190 degrees. We check the readiness of a toothpick - pierce the cake, if the stick stays dry, the biscuit is ready. Let it cool down a bit and take it out of the mold.
Furnace cakes are better in the evening, leaving it to cool all night. We make from a completely cooled biscuit "box". With a sharp knife we cut off the top about one and a half centimeters high. If the biscuit did not turn out perfectly smooth, the "hills" and "hills" can also be cut off - they will go into the filling, and the icing will hide all the roughness.
We take out the crumb from the cake, the thickness of the walls and the bottom should be about a centimeter. Extracted biscuit weed into crumbs. The damp cherry without pits we will throw away on a sieve. Cognac from under it we mix with condensed milk, add the softened butter and beat up the mixer. We add cocoa, biscuit and cherry. All gently stir. We fill the box with this mass, close it with a cut off top and press it down a bit.
For glaze we use butter on a water bath, successively add sugar powder, cognac from cherry, cocoa, starch, stirring each time to homogeneity. Put the pieces of chocolate tiles and stir until they dissolve completely. We cover the cake with frosting on all sides, let's get a little stiff and decorate the top with "drunken" cherries with a stone. Ready cake should brew for about an hour. Just wait a little more and serve me a treat to the table!
Dessert "Drunken Cherry" - recipe
Ingredients:
- cherry (you can use frozen) - 1 glass;
- red sweet wine - 1 glass;
- walnuts - 1/2 cup;
- sour cream (fat content not less than 25%) - 1 glass;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- Vanilla sugar - 1 packet;
- jelly cherry - 1 packing.
Preparation
From the cherry we remove the bones. We do not chop the nuts very finely, add them to the berries and fill it with wine so that it completely covers. Bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 15-20 minutes. We merge the wine, and spread the nuts and cherries on the kremanki.
Sour cream whipped with sugar and vanilla, cover the cherry and send it to the refrigerator to make it freeze.
Cook jelly, cool and pour over sour cream. You can decorate the croissants with any berries. Again, send the dessert to the fridge - until it is completely solidified. Perfect treat in the summer heat!