How Emma's grandmother cooks cakes: the best recipes

Grandmother Emma - one of the most famous videoblogers in our country. On its culinary channel, it presents step-by-step recipes for main courses, salads, side dishes, drinks and desserts. Any cake grandmother Emma can cook quickly enough and tell about it so that no one from the audience will not have questions. The most popular recipes for cakes are presented in our article.

How to prepare the grandmother Emma cake "Black Forest" (chocolate biscuit)

The exquisite "Black Forest" has a long history, and for this time has become in Germany a traditional German dessert. Grandmother Emma's cake is prepared in two stages: first bakes a chocolate biscuit, and then prepares a cream for it and a cherry layer, and then performs the assembly of the cake.

Step-by-step preparation of biscuit:

1. The oven is preheated to 180 ° C.
2. A bowl of egg yolks (7 pcs.), Eggs (7 pcs.), Sugar (420 g) and vanillin is heated on a water bath. With constant stirring, the egg mass is brought to 45 ° C, removed from the fire and beaten with a mixer until the volume is increased 4 times.
3. In the egg mass for 3 sets of sifted flour (350 g) and cocoa (70 g). Each time, the dough is gently mixed with a spatula.
4. Lastly, melted butter (150 g) is introduced into the dough.
5. A biscuit is baked in a shape 26-28 cm in diameter for 40 minutes.
6. The cooled biscuit is cut into 3 cakes.

Cream preparation and cake assembly

When assembling the cake "Black Forest" 2 types of cream and a cherry layer are used.

To prepare a creamy chocolate cream in hot fat cream (500 ml), 300 g of melted chocolate is added. The mass is mixed until a uniform consistency is obtained. After cooling in the refrigerator, chocolate and cream are beaten in a magnificent cream. Cream cream for the cake is made even easier - by whipping with a mixer of fat cream (500 ml) and sugar (100 g).

To prepare the cherry impregnation from the jar (700 g) with canned cherries the compote is drained. It adds 300 g of sugar, and after boiling another 40 g of starch, dissolved in the same amount of water. As soon as the compote boils again, cherries are added to it from the jar.

Grandmother Emma cake "Black Forest", namely biscuit cakes, impregnates with sugar syrup with the addition of rum or other alcohol. The cake is going very simply - by coating the cakes with one and the other cream alternately. After a layer of a cream cream cherries with a dense kissel are laid out. The product is decorated with the remains of cream and whole cherries.

Cake "Snickers" from the grandmother of Emma

Lovers of nuts will appreciate the refined taste of this chocolate cake. It turns out high, beautiful and very tasty.

Grandmother Emma cake "Snickers" prepares according to the following algorithm:

1. The oven heats up to 180 ° С.
2. Separate forms for baking (2 pieces) are lined with parchment and lubricated with butter.
3. In a deep bowl dry ingredients are mixed: 350 g of flour, baking powder (2 tsp) and 30 g of cocoa.
4. Soft butter is beaten with an electric mixer (200 g).
5. Gradually introduced sugar (400 g), 3 eggs, a pinch of salt and vanillin.
6. At a slow speed of the mixer, kefir (400 ml) and dry ingredients are introduced into the dough.
7. The chocolate dough is laid out on baking forms and sent to the oven for 35 minutes.
8. In the bowl of the mixer, caramel cream from butter (400 g) and boiled condensed milk (2 cans) are beaten.
9. In a separate bowl, another cream of butter is prepared (200 g), the same amount of peanut butter, whipped with a pinch of salt of proteins (2 pcs.) And hot honey syrup (50 ml of honey, 80 g of sugar and 50 ml of water). At the end of whipping, crushed peanuts are added to the cream.
10. To assemble the cake, biscuits are cut in half to get 4 cakes. Each cake is smeared with cream, after which the whole cake is covered with chocolate glaze.

The recipe for the cake "Prague"

A beautiful cake with a rich chocolate taste in many families has traditionally been baked for the New Year. The cake "Prague" grandmother Emma prepares according to the following recipe:

1. The oven heats up to 180 ° С.
2. The dough is mixed by successively adding ingredients: condensed milk (400 ml), cocoa (4 tablespoons), 4 eggs, sugar (2 tablespoons), vanillin, 500 ml sour cream, flour (2 items), baking powder (2 h. Spoons).
3. The cake is baked for 35 minutes in the form of a diameter of 26-28 cm, and after cooling it is cut into 2 cakes.
4. In the mixer bowl, a cream of whipped white soft butter (300 g), 100 g of cocoa, vanillin and condensed milk (1 pot) is kneaded.
5. Cake promazyvaetsya cream between the cakes, as well as from the side and from above.

Ready cake is decorated with chopped nuts, chocolate glaze or to your liking. It is recommended to refrigerate the product for 3 hours before serving.

Biscuit cake "Apricot" from the grandmother of Emma

This beautiful cake will perfectly suit both the celebration and the usual tea party. Grandmother Emma's cake is made from biscuit with a cream of whipped cream and apricot jam, which gives the product spicy sourness.

Step-by-Step Recipe:

1. Egg proteins (8 pcs.) Are beaten with sugar (150 g) into dense foam.
2. Separately, the yolks are beaten with the same amount of sugar. In addition, lemon zest (½ lemon) and juice (2 tablespoons) are added.
3. In the yolk mass, half of the whipped proteins are introduced and flour is sieved (200 g), followed by potato starch (100 g).
4. The rest of the proteins is introduced.
5. The dough is laid out in a 28 cm diameter and sent to the oven, heated to 180 ° C, for 40 minutes. The cooled biscuit is divided into 4 parts.
6. Prepare a layer of jam (300 g) and chopped almonds (50 g).
7. Fat cream (500 ml) is beaten with sugar (100 g) into a firm foam.
8. The cakes are soaked with syrup from canned apricots, then cream with cream and jam is applied on them. Cake is decorated with halves of apricots.

Cake "Lady's fingers"

From the brewed dough you can cook not only eclairs or profiteroles, but also a very tasty dessert "Lady fingers". This grandmother Emma's cake is prepared with sour cream and berries.

The recipe for its preparation consists in the following steps:

1. In a saucepan is laid out 100 g of butter, 300 ml of water and a pinch of salt are added. On medium heat, the mass is brought to a boil.
2. Flour (170 g) is sieved in a saucepan with a creamy mass, and the dough is kneaded until it begins to lag behind the walls of the dishes.
3. The hot dough is transferred to the bowl of the mixer and with constant stirring, 6-7 eggs are introduced into it.
4. The finished viscous dough is transferred to a confectioner's bag with a nozzle 1 cm in diameter and squeezed out onto parchment in the form of strips. The products are baked for 20 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C.
5. A sour cream is prepared from 1 kg of sour cream with a fat content of 25% and 400 g of sugar.
6. At the bottom of the split form is laid out ¼ of the cream.
7. Dough products are broken into pieces the size of a finger and mixed with cream. Then they are densely laid out in a layer by layer. To taste, you can add berries of strawberries and pieces of kiwi.

Before decorating, Emma's grandmother's cake is infused in the refrigerator for 5 hours. After that, you can get it from a split form, flap the sides and top with a creamy cream and decorate with thin slices of fruit.