Cocoa pies are crumbly and tender, so such pastries will be a great addition to tea drinking. Such dishes are quite simple to prepare and do not require any special culinary skills.
"Quick" cocoa pie
Ingredients:
- sour cream (low-fat) - 0.25 cups;
- milk - 0.25 glasses;
- cocoa - 3 tablespoons;
- flour - 1 glass;
- egg - 1 piece;
- sugar - 5 tablespoons;
- walnuts (kernels) - 0.5 cups;
- icing sugar - 3 tablespoons;
- margarine - 120 grams;
- oil - 30 grams;
- water - 0.5 cups;
- cinnamon - 0.5 teaspoon;
- soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
- vinegar - 0.5 teaspoon;
- salt - 1 pinch.
Mix 100 grams of margarine with 4 tablespoons of sugar. Add sour cream and an egg to them. Beat this mass thoroughly with a mixer.
Mix 2 tablespoons of cocoa with 1 tablespoon of sugar and dilute the resulting powder in 0.5 cups of hot water. Pour this liquid into the sour cream and margarine mass.
Add flour, cinnamon and salt to this mixture. Beat the resulting dough thoroughly with a mixer. You should get a homogeneous mass of chocolate color.
Dry and chop the walnuts. Pour them out for future cake. Then add vinegar quenched baking soda to the dough. Stir the resulting mass and put it in a mold, previously greased with butter. Bake the cake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for about 30 minutes.
While the dough is being prepared, you can make a fondant. Mix 1 tablespoon of cocoa with 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar. Pour the resulting powder with milk and stir. Place this liquid on the stove and bring to a boil. Then add 20 grams of margarine to the milk. Stir the resulting mixture and pour 2 tablespoons of powder into it. Pour this fondant over the finished cocoa pie and spread evenly.
Pie with cocoa and curd filling
Ingredients:
- sour cream - 4 tablespoons;
- cottage cheese - 600 grams;
- flour - 2 tablespoons;
- cocoa - 3 tablespoons;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- potato starch - 2 tablespoons;
- sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- butter - 100 grams;
- margarine - 200 grams;
- soda - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 1 pinch.
Grind frozen margarine, mix it with sugar and cocoa. Add 2 tablespoons of sour cream, salt and baking soda to these ingredients. Stir constantly, pour flour into the resulting mass. You should get a smooth and thick dough. Divide it into two parts, wrap one of which in a bag and put in the freezer. Put the remaining dough in a mold, distribute it evenly and make high sides so that the filling does not fall out of the pie.
Combine curd with 2 tablespoons sour cream, beaten eggs, starch and butter. Put the resulting mass in a future cake.
Remove the frozen dough from the refrigerator, grind and pour over the curd filling. Bake the pie for 35 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 ° C.
