The recipe for the famous cake "Kiev" is only 50 years old. Like all ingenious, he appeared by chance. It is believed that confectioners simply forgot to put their eggs in the refrigerator. And the next day they made a cake, protein cakes generously smeared with cream and sprinkled with vanilla powder. Customers liked the cake so much that for many years it became a visiting card of Kiev.
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You will need
- For the test:
- - eggs - 10 pcs.;
- - sugar - 1 cup;
- - chopped nuts - 1 cup;
- - flour - 3 tablespoons;
- - vanillin.
- For dark cream:
- - sugar - 1/3 cup;
- - butter - 70 g;
- - yolk - 1 pc;
- - milk - 30 ml;
- - cocoa powder 2 tablespoons;
- - cognac 2 tablespoons;
- - vanillin.
- For a light cream:
- - sugar - 2/3 cup;
- - butter - 150 g;
- - yolk - 1 pc.;
- - milk - 100 ml;
- - cognac - 1 tablespoon;
- - vanillin.
Instruction manual
1
Separate the proteins from the yolks and leave them for several hours at room temperature, then beat them in a foam. Fry chopped nuts in a dry pan. Mix them with flour and sugar. Then carefully add the mixture to the protein foam and mix until smooth.
2
Take 2 baking dishes. Cover their bottom with baking paper. Until the protein mass has settled, quickly lay it out in a mold so that you get 2 cakes with a thickness of about 1 centimeter.
3
Preheat the oven to 110 degrees. Put the forms with the dough into it and bake the cakes for 2 hours. Remove from the oven and let them cool.
4
While the cakes are cooling, prepare 2 creams: dark and light. For each, first mix milk, sugar and yolks. Heat the mixture with constant stirring. Then strain and cool. Whip the cream, gradually adding soft butter and other ingredients.
5
Grease 1 cake first with light cream. Put a second one on it and grease it with dark cream. Decorate the cake to your liking.