Recipe for making a cake “Chocolate cake with blueberries and white chocolate cream”:
Ingredients:
For cake:
– 200 g of blueberries
– 200 g of flour
– 200 g of sugar
– 150 g of oil
– 4 eggs
– 50 g cocoa
– 1 tsp baking powder
– 1 tsp vanilla extract
– a pinch of salt
For cream:
– 200 g of white chocolate
– 400 ml of cream (liquids)
– 2 tsp vanilla extract
– 250 g of butter
– 100 g of sugar powder
For decoration:
– Fresh blueberries
– dark chocolate
Instructions:
1. Take blueberries and chop it finely. Put in a small bowl and sprinkle with sugar. Leave for a few minutes so that the berries are given juice.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Mix to uniform distribution of ingredients.
3. In another bowl, beat the oil and sugar until lush and homogeneous mass is obtained. Add the eggs one at a time, whipping between the additions. Then add the vanilla extract.
4. Gradually add a mixture of dry ingredients to a bowl with butter and eggs, while continuing to whip so that everything is well connected.
5. Add squeezed blueberry juice and carefully mix the dough until smooth.
6. Heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Put the dough in a baking dish (previously lubricated with oil or covered with parchment paper) and bake the cake for about 30-35 minutes, or until a wooden skew comes out of the center clean.
7. The time, while the cake is baking, can be used to prepare a cream. Melt white chocolate in a water bath or in a microwave.
8. In a separate bowl, beat the cream with vanilla extract until hard peaks are formed. Add butter and powdered sugar, continue to beat until a homogeneous consistency.
9. Gradually add melted white chocolate to the cream, continuing to whisk until smooth.
10. When the cake has cooled, cut it in half horizontally. Apply half the cream to the lower layer of the cake and evenly distribute fresh blueberries through the cream. Put the top layer of the cake and cover it with the remaining cream.
11. Decorate the top of the cake with fresh blueberries and grated dark chocolate.
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