Usuba
Compact Chocolate Cake with Cream
Tender chocolate cake with cottage cheese and cream frosting. Compact size is ideal for a small gathering. The cake layer is soaked with cream, covered on all sides and decorated to taste.
- Prep
- 60 min
- Cooking
- 120 min
- Total
- 180 min
- Standard serving
- 133.1 g
Ingredients
Total 16- Wheat flour
10.83 g≈ 1.5 tbsp - Sugar
11.67 g≈ 1 tbsp - Cocoa powder
2.5 g≈ 1/2 tsp - Baking powder
0.32 g - Baking soda
0.44 g - Salt
0.2 g - Boiling water
10 ml≈ 2 tsp - Sour cream
9.901 ml≈ 2 tsp - Vegetable oil
3.33 ml≈ 2/3 tsp - Chicken egg
8.5 g - Vanilla Paste
0.935 g - Cream cheese
50 g≈ 3 tbsp - Cream33%
12.5 ml≈ 2.5 tsp - Powdered Sugar
10 g≈ 2.5 tsp - Food coloring
to taste - Chocolate
to taste
Instructions
- 1
Step 1
Prepare all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- 2
Step 2
Grease a 12 cm diameter cake tin with butter and line it with parchment paper.
- 3
Step 3
Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and baking powder into a large bowl. Add salt and sugar.
- 4
Step 4
In a separate bowl, mix hot water, sour cream, vegetable oil, egg, and half a teaspoon of vanilla paste until smooth.
- 5
Step 5
Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and knead the dough.
- 6
Step 6
Transfer the dough to a baking form and bake for 30 minutes. Check for doneness with a skewer — it should come out dry or with moist crumbs.
- 7
Step 7
Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then cool completely on a wire rack.
- 8
Step 8
For the cream, whip the cream cheese, vanilla paste, heavy cream, and powdered sugar until smooth.
- 9
Step 9
Set aside 2 tablespoons of cream and tint with food coloring. This cream will be useful for decoration or writing.
- 10
Step 10
Cut the cooled cake layer, spread it with cream and stack the layers. Place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes (or in the freezer for 10) until the cream hardens.
- 11
Step 11
Cover the cake with cream on all sides. Return to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- 12
Step 12
Decorate the cake before serving. Serve with tea or coffee.
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