The sponge cake covered with dark chocolate shell is deservedly named after the romantic and mysterious Eduard Woodstock, the hero of the Hundred Years War. It hides inside a delicate creamy layer and an intriguing berry acidity. With all the true royal sophistication, the Black Prince kefir cake is made from the most affordable ingredients.
Material Content:
Chocolate cake "Black Prince" on kefir
For biscuit:
- 200 ml of kefir;
- 250 g of flour;
- 230 g sugar;
- 50 g of cocoa powder;
- 15 g baking powder;
- one egg.
If the ingredients are mixed in a blender, the order does not matter. For manual kneading, it is important to thoroughly beat the eggs, and add soda at the very end.
While the reaction of soda with lactic acid occurs, the dough is poured into a mold and put in the oven.
The biscuit is baked at 180 ºС for about half an hour.
For cream:
- 200 g of softened oil;
- 250 g sour cream;
- 100 g of sugar.
Kefir chocolate cake is not too sugary and fat. To better soak it, use 15 - 20% liquid sour cream.
- The cream should be whipped until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- The finished biscuit is divided into cakes with a fishing line.
- Coat the cake inside and align the outside with a generous layer of cream.
- Sprinkle generously with chocolate chips on top and sides, garnish with a traditional cherry.
Dessert with jam
The Black Prince cake with jam is distinguished by a particularly tasty and fragrant biscuit, as a berry treat is added to the dough, and not to the cream.
Ingredients:
- 200 ml of kefir;
- 200 ml of jam;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 400 g flour;
- one egg;
- 15 g of soda.
Jam should be acidic, liquid, pitted. Workpieces from any grade of currant are ideal. Sweet and sour composition can be wiped through a sieve to remove berry seeds and skins.
- The biscuit is baked at 180 ° C until cooked and divided into cakes.
- They are layered with sour cream and covered with grated chocolate.
With condensed milk
In special cases, the "Black Prince" can be completely transformed. To give a richer creamy taste, condensed milk is added to the sour cream.
Per 100 g of sour cream:
- 200 g of oil;
- 400 ml of boiled condensed milk;
- vanilla extract.
Kefir cake sponge dough is complemented with grated walnuts and lemon zest. For a regular portion of dough, approximately 30 - 40 g of both, so as not to "overload" the biscuit.
Cherry Recipe
Always a good duet - cherry and chocolate. "Prince" with fresh or frozen berries is usually prepared with a light cream without oil.
For cream:
- 400 g farm sour cream;
- 200 g of powdered sugar;
- vanilla extract.
The berries for the filling and decoration should be dry. You can powder them with corn starch so that the juice does not flow.
- A layer of berries is laid out on the chocolate cake.
- It is fixed with a layer of dense cream.
- The filling is covered with the following cake.
- On the upper layer (under the chocolate chips that decorate the cake), the berries are not put, but for decoration they can be used as much as you like.
Cooking in a slow cooker
Cake "Black Prince" in a slow cooker takes longer to cook than in the oven, but always succeeds. In the microclimate, which supports the multicooker, a biscuit with oil content rises well. Cakes are softer and more tender. This advantage must be taken.
Ingredients:
- 250 ml of kefir;
- 250 g of flour;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 70 g of cocoa powder;
- 100 g butter;
- two eggs;
- 10 g of baking powder.
The amount of sugar can be changed depending on the cream, which will be layered cakes. This will not affect the consistency of the dough and the baking time.
- Baking mode for 80 minutes.
- Another 20 minutes “Warm up”.
- Lubricate the cooled cakes with cream with sour cream or with boiled condensed milk.
- Top cake can be soaked with currant or raspberry jam syrup.
Classic recipe
Most often, this cake is cooked on sour cream. The biscuit turns out a little fatter than on kefir, and a little drier than with butter. This dough easily rises in a conventional oven.
Ingredients:
- 200 ml of sour cream;
- 200 g of flour;
- 200 g of sugar;
- two eggs;
- 50 g of cocoa powder;
- 10 g of soda.
For biscuit, you need liquid sour cream, on a fatty farm product it will turn out to be heavy and dense.
- Bake cakes at 180 ºС for 15 - 20 minutes.
- Spread them with cream or whipped cream.
- Sprinkle the cake with chocolate chips and garnish with cherry.
How to decorate and serve dessert beautifully
In the portrait, the famous prince of Wales and Aquitaine is depicted in black armor with a snow-white plume and a huge ruby on his chest. His costume is associated with stories full of gloomy romance, which are pleasant to listen to with a cup of tea and cake.
The young Plantagenet was knighted at the age of sixteen, after the victorious battle of Crecy, where he commanded the right flank of the English army. In numerous attacks, he participated in light chain mail, and only after the victory did the king-father consider that “the boy deserved his spurs,” and therefore full knightly armor. True, it is still black, without emblems.
The thick layer of grated chocolate that covers the cake brought the dessert a big name, as it resembles the legendary vestment of a knight.
The cake looks more accurately in a thick dark chocolate glaze.
Ingredients:
- 100 g of cocoa powder;
- 100 ml cream;
- 100 g of sugar.
Glaze is boiled until thickened. 50 g of butter is added to the finished mixture to give the “armor” gloss. The cake is poured with warm icing and quickly cooled until chocolate has spread on the dish.
Another story is related to the “Ruby of the Black Prince”. This is a truly gorgeous stone the size of a chicken egg. Currently, a ruby adorns the front cross of the British crown. Edward received it in gratitude from the Spanish king, whom he helped restore the throne.The prince considered the ruby an effective talisman, bringing good luck in battle, and did not part with it.
Hence another tradition - the cake is decorated with a cherry, similar to a ruby on the chest of a warrior.
Each housewife brings her own vision to the dessert, so the “ruby” theme is converted into a cherry filling, a sponge cake with berry soaking or a cherry jelly decoration.
Sometimes the cake is supplemented with a “plume” of whipped cream or a thick sour cream.
Each option, of course, has a right to exist.
