Homemade recipe №010 Cake "Sponge cake with cocoa" recipe number 2

Description: Layers of biscuit semi-finished product with cocoa (without soaking) are connected with creamy chocolate cream. The surface is finished with creamy chocolate cream and fruit. The side surfaces are finished with cream and crumbs of the semi-finished product "Dachny".

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass of brown color, well retaining its shape.
Manual: Prepare a cream like "Charlotte" No. 59, add cocoa powder at the end of whipping.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass of yellow color, with a smooth glossy surface, well retaining its shape.
Manual: The peeled and cut butter is whipped in a beater at low speed until smooth. Chilled “Charlotte” syrup with the addition of cognac or dessert wine, vanilla powder are gradually poured into the whipped mass and beat at a high number of revolutions until the volume increases by 2.5–3 times. Duration of whipping is 20-30 min.

Manual: The finished semi-finished product "Dachny" No. 37 is crushed and sieved.

Description: ** Characteristics of the semi-finished product. ** Round shape. Smooth thin brown top crust. The crumb is porous, elastic, brown in color.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Melange with granulated sugar without heating or (to speed up the whipping) with preheating to 30 ивают is whipped in a beating machine, first at low, then at a high speed for 30-40 minutes until the volume increases by 2 , 5–3 times. Before the end of whipping, add flour mixed with potato starch and cocoa powder, essence and mix for no more than 15 seconds. Flour should be introduced in 2-3 doses.
The finished dough should be fluffy, well-saturated with air, evenly mixed, without lumps and have a creamy color. The moisture content of the dough is 36–38%.
** Shaping. ** The biscuit dough is immediately poured into baking trays or molds, which are pre-greased or covered with paper. Baking trays and molds are filled to 3/4 of the height so that the dough does not fall over the sides when lifting.
** Baking. ** Baking time 50–55 min at 195–200 ℃ or 40–45 min at 205–225 ℃. The baked sponge cake is cooled for 20-30 minutes, removed from baking trays or molds and left to stand for 8-10 hours at a temperature of 15-20 ℃. After that, the paper is removed, the biscuit is cleaned.

Manual: Charlotte syrup is prepared in two ways.
** First method. ** Granulated sugar, eggs and milk are thoroughly mixed and brought to a boil with constant stirring. The syrup is boiled for 4-5 minutes to a temperature of 104-105 ℃. The prepared syrup is filtered and cooled in the summer to a temperature of 20-22 ℃, in the winter - up to 28-30 ℃.
** Second way. **
a) Preparation of milk sugar syrup. Granulated sugar and milk, provided by the recipe, are mixed and boiled for 60–90 minutes to a temperature of 104–105 ℃ (test per thin thread). The moisture content of the milk sugar syrup is 27%.
b) Preparation of Charlotte syrup. Beat the eggs in a whisk machine for 5-7 minutes and gradually pour in hot milk-sugar syrup in a 1: 1 ratio. The brewed mass is mixed with the rest of the milk-sugar syrup and kept for 5 minutes at a temperature of 95 ℃. The finished syrup is filtered and cooled.

Description: ** Characteristics of the semi-finished product ** Thick dark brown syrup with a bitter taste.
Manual: Granulated sugar and water in a ratio of 5: 1 are heated with occasional stirring until the sugar turns dark brown. After 30-40 minutes of boiling, gradually, in 6-8 doses, add hot water at the rate of 2 parts of water to 5 parts of sugar. In general, the duration of cooking is 50-60 minutes. The syrup is filtered through a sieve with a mesh size of 1–1.5 mm.
Burnt should contain about 40% sugar.