A popular cake with cherries made from cognac or other strong alcohol is one of the most popular ones in home cooking. It turns out very tasty, and thanks to different fillings, you can vary the basic recipe as you like.
Cake "Drunk cherry" (step-by-step recipe with a photo below) can be prepared with a creamy condensed, sour cream, custard, cheese, jelly cream. No particularly complex ingredients are required, it all depends on the preferences of the hostess.
Drunk Cake Cake - General Cooking Principles
Cake is made on the basis of sponge cake. It is in the preparation of biscuit basics lies the main complexity of the dish. Step-by-step recipe with a photo for a cake “Drunk cherry” includes a step-by-step description of the process, but without the knowledge of some of the subtleties bake a lush cake and it will not work.
To bake a classic sponge cake, you need only three ingredients: eggs, flour and sugar. However, you can improve the composition by adding a tablespoon of starch to the mixture. We give a proven way to bake biscuit cake. It can be taken as the basis for any of the “Drunk cherry” cake variants listed below, and a basic recipe with a photo will help you understand the logic of the process.
Ingredients:
• four medium sized chicken eggs;
• 120 grams of white sugar;
• 120 grams of flour;
• tablespoon of starch.
If you wish, you can add? teaspoon baking powder, but it is not necessary. First, eggs, without dividing them into yolks and proteins, mix slightly with a mixer. Then, in three steps, without stopping the beating, add sugar, and continue beating until the mass is compacted. It should brighten, but the main sign of readiness is the ability to “draw” a trickle of egg base. If you remove the mixer whisk from the mass and allow the eggs to drain from it, then a clear trace will remain for 3-4 seconds. Now you need to add to the dough flour, sifted with starch, mixing with a wooden spatula from the bottom up. It is necessary to try to maintain the airiness of the mass, to prevent air bubbles from collapsing.
It turns out a light biscuit dough, which needs to be poured into a detachable form laid out with parchment (a 24 cm shape will suit for a specified number of ingredients). Bake the biscuits need forty minutes at 180 °.
An important nuance: cocoa is surely added to the “Drunk cherry” sponge cake. Baked cake should have a dark, brown color and a characteristic shade of taste. Cocoa can be mixed with flour at the stage of sifting or added separately, beating eggs.
Fresh, frozen or canned cherry infused in cognac is the second crucial point that distinguishes the cake “Drunk Cherry”. In the step-by-step recipe with a photo there is a detailed description. You just need to pour the berry strong alcohol and insist for a few minutes or hours. Suit brandy, rum, vodka, brandy.
Drunk cherry cake with condensed milk cream
The classic “condensed milk” cake seems to many Russians to be the most delicious. Despite the high calorie content, it is most often baked according to the recipe of the “Drunk cherry” cake. Step-by-step recipe with photos is a great tip for beginner hostesses.
Ingredients:
In sponge cake:
• four eggs;
• 15 gr. dry cocoa powder;
• 20 gr. starch;
• 120 gr. Sahara;
• 80 gr. white flour.
In the filling and cream:
• a cup of cherries;
• 100 ml of cognac;
• pack of oil;
• can of condensed milk.
Frosting and decoration top:
• chocolate bar;
• some powdered sugar (spoon);
• half a cup of cream;
• 15 gr. butter;
• 15-20 pcs. cherries;
• whipped cream.
Preparation:
Prepare a "drunken" basis, bay cherry brandy. This can be done 3 hours before baking the cake or the night before.
Bake the cake as described above. You can beat the whites and yolks separately, and then gently combine. It is important to cool the finished cake completely and only after that uncover the sides of the detachable form and remove the cake.
Cut off the top of the cake with a sharp long knife.
From the bottom, gently “scoop” with a spoon or cut out the biscuit pulp with a knife. It should make a basket - we will put the stuffing in it.
Biscuit flesh hands to break into a crumb.
Cherry cast on a sieve, but brandy infusion with juice is not poured.
Beat condensed milk and melted butter into a fluffy mass.
Combine the cream and berries, add half the resulting crumbs from the pulp of the biscuit, mix everything.
Soak the bottom of the main sponge cake and the bottom of the upper part with cherry juice.
Put the resulting cream filling in the prepared “basket”.
Cover with the cut off top.
Put on the shelf of the refrigerator.
In the meantime, make the icing. In a saucepan, break the chocolate into small pieces, add powdered sugar.
Heat the cream on the stove and pour it into the chocolate.
Melt the chocolate pieces over the steam.
Put butter in the glaze mass, wait until it is dissolved.
Place the grid on the chopping board, place the product on it.
Smear glaze on all sides.
Sprinkle the cake with the remaining crumb.
At the top, spread out the cherry, sprinkled with sugar, decorate with whipped cream.
Put the cake in the fridge.
Submit to the table in an hour.
Drunk cherry cake on sour cream
A lighter version of the popular dessert cake is made with sour cream. In addition, sour cream is added to the biscuit dough, which makes it more moist cake. Less calories, and tastes just as tasty.
Ingredients:
• five eggs;
• 200 ml of store sour cream into the dough and 500 ml into cream (you can enlarge it if you wish, then the torus will be more moist);
• 210 grams of sugar in the dough and 230 grams in the impregnation;
• one and a half glasses of white flour;
• four tablespoons of cocoa;
• teaspoon of soda;
• half a glass of vodka or brandy
• two glasses of cherries; • chocolate crumb (for decoration, not necessary).
Glaze:
• cocoa - 3 tbsp. l .;
• powdered sugar or fine sugar - 4 tbsp. l .;
• butter - 1 tsp;
• cream or milk - 4 tbsp. l
Preparation:
Prepare a cherry, its cognac.
Combine sugar with eggs, beat.
In sour cream pour soda, mix, pour in eggs.
Add cocoa in flour, stir and sift.
Pour the norm of flour, mix.
Bake a sponge cake.
Cooled biscuit cake split with a thread or a knife in half.
Sugar and sour cream whip.
Cut the pulp from the halves of the cake.
Break it into pieces and combine with sour cream and strained berries. This is a filling.
Fill the “basket” of the lower half of the cake with the filling.
Cover the top half.
Cook the icing.
Smear the top and sides of the cake with icing.
Decorate with grated chocolate crumbs.
Drunk Cherry Cake with Mascarpone Cream Cheese
Another version of the “Drunk Cherry” cake layer (step-by-step recipe with a photo is almost the same as other options) - this is a gentle mascarpone as one of the ingredients of the cream.
Ingredients:
• five eggs;
• 90 grams of flour;
• 180 grams of sugar;
• 35 grams of cocoa;
• 300 grams of cherries;
• 350 ml store cream;
• 125 grams of mascarpone;
•? cups of powdered sugar;
• two glasses of cognac;
• a bar of dark chocolate.
Preparation:
Bake the biscuit on the main recipe and cool it completely.
As the cake gets cold, pour the cherries into the alcohol.
Prepare the cream, whipping up cold cream, powder and mascarpone.
Make a biscuit basket as described above.
Mix cherries, half pieces of biscuit “middle” and berries.
Assemble the cake.
Put pressure on it and put it in the fridge.
Melt the chocolate pieces as described above.
Pour warm icing on the sides and on top of the cake, sprinkle with the remains of biscuit crumbs.
Freeze in the fridge and serve.
Drunk Cherry Cake with Custard
Another simple and tasty way to prepare a drunk cherry cake with a step-by-step recipe from a photo is a quiche cake. It is prepared simply from the most ordinary products.
Ingredients:
• nine eggs (five in dough, four in cream);
• one and a half cups of flour (cup in the dough, the rest - in the cream);
• three glasses of sugar (half in the dough, half in the cream);
• two spoons of dry cocoa;
• two glasses of milk;
• regular pack of oil (180-200 grams);
• chocolate for icing.
Preparation:
Fresh or canned cherries pour vodka or brandy.
From eggs, sugar, flour to make a biscuit according to the basic recipe.
Cook the cream. To do this, flour, sugar, eggs and milk, beat.
Put the mixture on the fire and brew until it thickens and begins to “puff” like semolina.
In the cooled cream to introduce soft oil, stir.
Strain the cherry.
Cut the cake into pieces, take out the middle.
Connect the filling.
Assemble the cake as described above.
Pour chocolate over melted chocolate cake.
If desired, decorate with cherries, chocolate chips, whipped cream.
Drunk Cherry Cake with Curd Cream
The unusual recipe for “bare” cake without icing is a great alternative to the classic version.
Ingredients:
• four eggs;
• 170 grams of flour;
• 180 grams of sugar in the dough, 200 grams - in the cream;
• teaspoon baking powder;
• 3 tbsp. l cooled boiling water;
• 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
• 200 grams of berries;
• a glass of vodka;
• 250 grams of sour cream;
• 300 grams of cottage cheese.
Preparation:
Prepare the biscuit dough according to the basic recipe. At the stage of mixing with flour, pour in water and vegetable oil.
Bake the cake and cool it completely.
Cut the cake into 2-3 pieces.
For cream curd rub and whip in a blender with sugar and sour cream.
Cherry juice mix brandy.
Saturate the mixture with this mixture.
Spread each layer of cream, leaving part of the cream for making the top. Put the cream on the top of the cake, form "sides" and put the cherry.
Lightly freeze in the refrigerator.
Drunk cherry cake with gelatin
To make the cream more dense, you can add gelatin to it. Step-by-step recipe with a photo for the cake “Drunk cherry” remains unchanged except for minor changes in the amount of the original ingredients.
Ingredients:
• six eggs;
• a glass of flour;
• glasses of cherries;
• a glass of sugar;
• half a glass of cognac or vodka;
• tablespoon of gelatin;
• whipping cream;
• a little icing sugar (enough for two spoons);
• a bar of dark chocolate.
Preparation:
Berries pour brandy.
Bake cake made from sugar, flour and eggs.
Gelatin pour water, after swelling dissolve in a water bath according to the instructions.
Cream pour into a saucepan and mixer whip them with powder.
Pour the cooled gelatin, stir.
Combine the cream with the cherry filtered through a sieve.
Collect the cake in the usual way, soaking the cakes with alcohol and juice.
Pour chocolate cake.
Drunk Cake Cake - Tips and Tips
To make the cherry on top of the cake keep its shape and look beautiful, you need to put a nut inside.
The sides of the form cannot be oiled - the biscuit will not rise.
Checking the readiness of the cake, it should be pierced with a match. If the tree is dry, the sponge cake is ready.
To the top of the cake turned out to be smooth, the form with batter should be vigorously scrolled around its axis 4-5 times.
