The Royal cake is a gorgeous festive pastry worthy of the most honored guests. The uniqueness of this cake is that each cake is enriched with different types of fillers. And what kind of additives for cake layers to choose is up to you. And the more such cakes there are, the more magnificent the treat will turn out.
Ingredient List
- premium flour - 500 g;
- butter margarine - 100 g (can be replaced with butter);
- sour cream with a fat content of 15% - 400 g;
- sugar - 340 g;
- soda - 2 tsp;
- lemon - 0.5 pcs. or apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- vanillin - 1 tsp;
- shelled walnuts - 100 g;
- poppy - 80 g;
- white raisins - 3 tbsp. l.;
- cocoa - 0.5 tbsp. l.;
- curd cheese - 100 g;
- condensed milk - 3 tbsp. l.;
- butter - 150 g;
- mixer;
- baking dish or baking sheet;
- parchment paper;
- kitchen scales.
Cake recipe
In order to prepare the royal cake "Royal", the most important task is to make cakes that will differ from each other in various additions. This classic recipe uses four types of additives: cocoa, raisins, poppy seeds and nuts. If desired, the number of cakes with fillers can be reduced or increased.
Melt the creamy margarine in the microwave or in a water bath until liquid, and then pour it into a deep bowl. Add sugar, sour cream and 0.5 teaspoon of vanillin to it. After that, beat the resulting mixture with a mixer at high speeds until a homogeneous mass is formed (you need to beat for at least 4 minutes).
After that, extinguish the baking soda with apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, and then add it to the sugar-sour cream mass. Add flour in portions and stir until no flour lumps remain in the dough. Divide the finished dough into four equal parts using a kitchen scale. It is better not to do this "by eye", because cakes should be exactly the same size.
Divide each part of the dough into separate containers and add to each of them filler. To the first piece of dough - cocoa, to the second - washed and dried raisins, to the third - poppy seeds, to the fourth - nuts (you can pre-grind them slightly in a mortar). Stir so that the filler is distributed as evenly as possible in the dough.
Turn on the oven and set the temperature to 180 degrees. While it is heating up, line the baking dish (baking sheet) with parchment paper and grease with any oil. Then lay out some of the dough for the first crust and shape it evenly. Send the piece to the oven and bake for 25 minutes. At the end of the allotted time, pierce the cake with a match - if it is dry, then the product can be removed.
Similar to baking the first crust, bake the remaining three. If you have two baking trays, you can cook the cakes at the same time, for example, two cakes on the top rack of the oven and the other two on the bottom. After 15 minutes, change the trays with the cakes so that they are baked evenly.
Remove the finished cakes from the oven and cool properly. In the meantime, they cool down, you can start preparing the cream.
How to make a delicious cream for the "Royal" cake
Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance and keep at room temperature to soften. Then transfer it to a bowl and divide into small pieces. Add condensed milk, cream cheese and the remaining vanillin to it. Beat everything together with a mixer until smooth, about 1 minute.
When the cream is ready, spread each cake with it and place them on top of each other in a random order: for example, first the cake with raisins, then with cocoa, then with nuts and the last with poppy seeds. Cover the top and sides of the cake with cream as well. The assembled cake can be decorated to your liking - sprinkle with nuts or cookie crumbs.
