When friends unexpectedly come to visit or relatives come to visit, a recipe for quick preparation of a cake for tea called "train station" can help out. It will appeal to both chocolate lovers and lovers of fruit filling.
Recipe for making "station" cake
If you are tormented by nostalgia, if melancholy is in your soul, it's time to bake this cake. The combination of chocolate taste and astringency of the jam will take you back to your youth, when you could have a cup of "three elephants" tea with such a cake in every buffet at the station.
For cooking, you need the following ingredients:
- wheat flour of the highest grade in the amount of two glasses;
- a glass of granulated sugar;
- two raw eggs;
- one teaspoon of cocoa powder;
- one teaspoon of baking soda (be sure to extinguish in vinegar);
- butter or margarine - 100 grams;
- medium fat sour cream - 100 grams.
Instead of sour cream, thick fatty kefir can be added to the dough. And replace half of the flour with semolina.
Granulated sugar must be rubbed with butter. Then add the soda and cocoa powder quenched in vinegar. Mix all ingredients until smooth. Drive two eggs into the mass and add sour cream or kefir. Mix everything well again. Add two glasses of flour to the total mass. Knead the batter. Be sure to thoroughly grind all the lumps.
Oil or line a deep baking tray with pastry paper. Pour the prepared dough in an even layer. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Place the baking sheet in the oven for baking. The baking time depends on the thickness of the biscuit layer (approximately forty minutes).
Cool the finished cake and divide into two parts. Spread the first layer with any jam or jam with a sour taste. It can be plum jam, black currant jam, or any other. Cut the finished double biscuit into rhombuses or rectangles. Top with hot chocolate icing or fondant. The station cake is ready.
The easiest way to make chocolate icing is to melt a bar of chocolate in a steam bath. When the mass becomes liquid, pour it over the cake.
Chocolate fudge recipe
The following products must be used:
- cocoa powder - two teaspoons;
- a tablespoon of butter;
- 2 tablespoons of water or milk;
- 2-3 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
Pour water or milk into a small ladle and add sugar. Put everything on fire, heat up, stir and let the sugar completely dissolve. Pour cocoa powder into the syrup and stir again. Add butter to the total mass. Mix everything well until smooth. The chocolate fudge is ready.
