Rosa Cooking

Labin cake

.... one jaaaaakooooooo fine cake for me, there are all the thicknesses of this suite and it connects me to one Istrian town Labin. My aunt from Labin always cheered us up with a Labin cake that all relatives talk about today ...

Preparation steps

  • Soak the bread crumbs in rum just enough for the crumbs to absorb the rum, stir with a spoon and set aside. Grind half of the walnuts finely and the other half into slightly larger pieces. Separate the egg yolks from the egg whites, beat the egg yolks at maximum speed with five tablespoons of sugar until the mass doubles and lightens the yellow color. Mix the sifted flour and cocoa with a teaspoon of baking powder at the lowest speed. Then add bread crumbs and ground walnuts. Beat the egg whites into a solid batter and combine with the original mass with a whisk, lightly beat with a whisk so that the mass does not collapse. Preheat the oven to 180'C. Grease and flour a 26cm diameter cake tin and pour the biscuit mass into the mold and place in a preheated oven for about thirty minutes. Before removing from the oven, prick in the middle with a toothpick, and if the toothpick is dry, you can remove the biscuit from the oven if you do not bake for another five to ten minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Cut the cooled dough once, soak the two crusts with sugar syrup (dissolve the sugar in rum and water by heating in the microwave or on the stove).
  • For the cream, beat three whole eggs with sugar (finer crystal sugar) on a steamer with a mixer, beat with a mixer until the sugar is felt and add chocolate to the creamy mixture. (My kids only like 200g of chocolate so then I leave out the walnuts if I work for a more mature age I put 50g of chocolate and 200g of walnuts, I leave room for you as desired). Cool the cream to room temperature, place plastic wrap over the bowl to prevent crusting. Make the softened butter with a mixer, add one tablespoon of cream and combine with the butter at the highest speed, then add two more tablespoons, combine and finally add the whole cream. Coat the lower soaked crust with a thick layer of cream, place the upper soaked crust on the cream and coat it with cream. There is a lot of cream so you can put the cream in a syringe and decorate it, you can melt the chocolate and pour over the cake, you can grate the chocolate on an apple grater and sprinkle the cake or decorate with fondant (MinjaB).

Serving

Cake briefs; you to choose how and with what you will decorate this fine cake. Why pants; aunt’s cake was always decorated with spinach egg whites and we as kids ate all the decorations and then grandma would carry a naked cake on the table and always ask her grandchildren who took off the panties of the cake and we just laughed. This cream goes great with fondant, with the proviso that I made the fondant (and decorations) the day before, and the cake in the evening. However, I rolled out the fondant a couple of hours before the celebration and put it on the cake. Cut off the ends of the fondant with a knife and decorate with decorations that you made the day before for drying. The fondant was refrigerated after placing and was perfect, it didn’t stick, it cuts very easily, for recommendation.