Fasting chocolate cake
I made it for St. Nicholas and, believe me, it is fasting, but it can also be found on the New Year's table without any complex.
Preparation steps
- Patišpanj:
- Chop the walnuts and grate the chocolate into larger pieces.
- Whisk the margarine and sugar with a mixer.
- Add sifted flour with baking powder, baking soda and cocoa.
- Add walnuts and chocolate and sour water so that you get a mass that will resemble some egg patisserie in density.
- Pour into a tray measuring 25 × 40 (approximately, but not smaller) on baking paper (required).
- Allow to cool.
- Together with the baking paper, transfer the crust to the tray on which it will stand. That's the easiest way.
- File:
- Whip the sweet sour cream with the whipped cream.
- Add the melted, cooled chocolate and stir a little more. You will get a very solid filling.
- Apply the entire amount of filling on the crust and pour the glaze on top.
- Glaze:
- Heat the sour cream to boiling point.
- Remove it immediately from the heat (it should not boil) and pour over the broken chocolate.
- Stir quickly with a spoon to melt the chocolate and immediately pour over the filling.
Serving
I used chocolate with 70% cocoa content. I messed up a bit with the icing because it started to shrink as I applied it to the cake (I smoothed it a lot) and it lost its shine. I made the glaze this way for the first time. The recipe for patišpanj is from a magazine, but I supplemented it a bit, and the filling and glaze are very well known. Overall, I am very pleased with this combination.