Walnut cake

The recipe for this simple and delicious home baking includes the following ingredients: peeled walnuts, granulated sugar, chicken eggs (medium size), wheat flour (higher or first grade), sour cream (I have 20% fat, but at all), butter, food soda and ground cinnamon. If you do not like cinnamon, you can not add it at all. All products (with the exception of chicken eggs) should be at room temperature.

Since the dough for walnut cake is made very quickly, you can immediately turn on the oven at 170 degrees. First of all, you need to chop the peeled walnuts, but not very finely — not in the crumb, but so that pieces remain. You can do this with a sharp knife or use a kitchen combine.

Chicken eggs need to be washed and thoroughly dry with a napkin or towel. Gently separate proteins from yolks — in this recipe we need both. We still leave the proteins, and we transfer the yolks to a bowl and add 150 grams of sugar to them.

Beat everything with a whisk or mixer to partial dissolution of sugar, whitewashing and increasing mass in volume. Then add sour cream, food soda and ground cinnamon (if you love it).

Once again, mix everything thoroughly and enter the soft butter. If you forgot to get oil from the refrigerator in advance, you can quickly soften it in the microwave in defrosting mode.

We interfere with the oil in the dough, and then add crushed walnuts.

At the very end, it is time to add wheat flour, which we pre -sift through a sieve.

After mixing (I just whip everything with a mixer at the lowest speed), a homogeneous dough with nuts of walnut crumbs is obtained. By consistency, it is not liquid, it holds the shape perfectly and resembles a cupcake. If it is not entirely clear, another example: fat sour cream (approximately 30%) or thick dough for pancakes.

We take a baking dish (preferably with a diameter of 20-24 centimeters, but this is not fundamentally) and lubricate it with any confectionery fat: refined vegetable or butter, ghee or animal fat — which is more like. We spread the dough in the shape and level it with a spoon or spatula. We put the bake in a heated oven at 170 degrees for about 30 minutes.

While preparing a walnut pie, we’ll get a mere. It will be a French meringue (you can read about all the intricacies and nuances of its preparation here) — air cream. We have 3 egg proteins and 100 grams of sugar — we will need them. Pour the proteins into clean and dry dishes and begin to beat with a mixer at medium speed. When the squirrels will bury and become clouded, we gradually pour sugar into them, without stopping whipping. Then we make the maximum speed and beat the proteins with sugar to hard peaks. In other words, the mass should be dense and not move. The photo shows how well the proteins with sugar are beaten. If you are sure that the squirrels were beaten enough, take a bowl with them and turn it over your head. Hold it like that, having read it to 10. If you have not dared to do this, then you are simply not sure that the meringue is quite stable — beat more. Of course, I don’t do that — I just know when it’s enough to beat.

In half an hour (well, or approximately — focus on your oven, they are sometimes like such capricious) walnut cake almost baked — if you check it on a dry beam, a wooden skewer or toothpick comes out almost dry.

Quickly spread the French meringue on top of the pie — with the help of a culinary bag with a nozzle or just a spoon — as you like best. And again, put the pie in the oven for another 15 minutes to prepare at 170 degrees.

During this time, not only the pie will reach, but also bake, and the protein cream will also be slightly browned.

Let us cool the finished walnut cake with the meringue, and then we free it from the shape and serve it.

A delicate, soft, fragrant and very tasty nut dough goes perfectly with an air mating cap. The upper layer is obtained like a sweet souffle cloud with a thin crisp crust. Try, sweet tooth, will not regret it! And all the lovers on the holiday — today is February 14! Strong love to you, boundless happiness and mutual understanding in everything!