What could be tastier for a sweet tooth than tea drinking with a treat? A heart-shaped sweet treat that combines honey cakes, hazelnuts and chocolate icing with a cup of aromatic coffee with milk, for example. You have a chance to check it out, if you don’t find it hard to read our signature recipe in full and reproduce the heart cake in your favorite kitchen with your own hands. We can guarantee a charge of strong emotions during the cooking process and admiring exclamations of loved ones at the sight of finished baking. Isn't this what real hostesses dream of ...
By calling the cake the king of all dishes, we are right on target. Each of us, being present at the festive table, eagerly awaits the culmination in treats - dessert, saving a place for him in his tummy. Focusing on culinary dictionaries, information about the origin of cakes pops up, but it is amusingly divided into many interesting theories:
• Historians attribute the origin of the word cake to the XIII century, and the first confectioners consider the Egyptians, who baked in the distant past, bread sweetened with honey with the addition of nuts or dried fruits.
• There are also legends about sweet Italian pies, as about the "ancestors" of modern cakes, and such a well-known proverb "There is no arguing about tastes" is interpreted in Italian as "There is no arguing about cakes."
• The East can also be considered the founder of the kings of all dishes, with enchanting fragrant sweets, using milk, honey and sesame seeds, reminiscent of modern cakes in their forms.
Theories are theories, but you can't argue with facts. Based on confirmed information about French confectioners, who with 100% certainty can be called the founders of the world fashion for desserts, we will consider France the main country of all cakes, such as biscuit, meringue, etc. Show off your confectionery masterpieces, which are considered an integral part of any holiday table in now maybe in Russia, but it has long been customary in Russia to serve only sweet and beautifully decorated pies for the celebration.
As time went…
Our bakers borrowed world-famous recipes, supplemented them with their own variations, thereby transforming pies into holiday cakes of various shapes and symbols. For several years now, heart-shaped cakes have been especially popular, photos of which flash on the pages of culinary blogs on the World Wide Web. We decided to keep up with fashion and create this sweet miracle, putting all our love for confectionery into it and at the same time tell HozOboz readers how to bake a heart cake.
On the cake:
For impregnation:
For stuffing:
For decor:
We put a pan on the steam bath and let the water boil. At this time, stir the eggs with sugar in a separate bowl.
Beat the eggs with sugar until a stable foam is formed.
Grate the butter and pour in the honey.
Now put the honey and butter in a steam bath and let it melt. Then add the baking powder.
Mix egg foam with melted honey and butter and let cool.
Now we introduce the sifted flour, but the dough should remain quite liquid.
We fill the silicone mold using about 60% of the dough. From the remaining dough after we prepare the second cake, which should be baked less so that it is not ruddy.
Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the cake for about 20 minutes.
We cut each of the two cakes into two lengthwise. As a result, we get 4 halves. One of the cakes should be thicker - we use it at the base of the cake.
We prepare the impregnation for the cakes. To do this, we place a bowl of honey and sugar on the steam bath. We impregnate the cakes with the finished syrup.
For cream, mix sour cream with condensed milk in a ratio of 40:60 and send to the refrigerator.
Place the nuts in the blender tank and chop into small pieces.
Melt white chocolate in a steam bath and make a bow out of it, as in the photo.
Using a brush, we place liquid chocolate on special stencils that we make from a folder-corner. We will need: a large blank - a ribbon, about 6 petals - for a bow. Once the chocolate is applied, bend the strips with chocolate inward, clamp with clothespins and place in the refrigerator.
The decor will be ready in 30 minutes, but we will not remove it until the cake is ready.
Lubricate the lower cake with sour cream and leave for 30 minutes.
Then sprinkle chopped nuts over the sour cream.
We put the second cake and spread it with the cream of sour cream and condensed milk prepared earlier. Sprinkle nuts on top. We also spread the third cake.
From above we cover the cake with the final half, grease the sides with the rest of the cream and send it to the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
We take the cake out of the refrigerator and sprinkle nuts on the sides.
Use the steam bath again, this time to melt the dark chocolate.
As soon as the chocolate starts to melt, add a little butter.
We cover the heart with chocolate icing so that the appetizing droplets drip onto the sides and put the cake in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
Then we take out the cake and make a chocolate bow. To do this, remove the stencil strips and quickly place the bow on the heart so that it does not have time to melt.
As a final touch, we use a waffle flower and hearts.
As you can see, the result deserves to be on the shelf of the most luxurious confectionery.
Before serving, keep the cake in a cool place and serve with aromatic tea or strong coffee. Have a sweet experience.
Modern trends in confectionery fashion dictate such a diverse combination of cakes, creams and decorations that all that remains is to give free rein to imagination and create, create, create...
• If we used honey cakes to make a heart-shaped cake, this does not mean at all that biscuit dough would not work. The biscuit goes well with chocolate icing, which means that as a variety option in the recipe, it would fit perfectly.
• Fluffy cream instead of condensed cream would make the cake lighter. We will definitely implement these experiments next time. Now we have just such a cake, very high-calorie, but the most delicious!
You don’t have to worry about the extra calories of truly high-calorie baked goods with chocolate icing. A good mood and a charge of vivacity from delicacies can only be compared with debilitating hunger strikes that will not bring anything good for the nervous system. Sweet tooths are the most cheerful people in the world, so let's always smile, especially since this is what we want with the onset of spring!