Coffee cake "Mocha": recipe, ingredients, preparation time, decoration

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The Mocha cake recipe is quite a unique thing for every housewife. Someone prepares it with liquor, and someone without. Someone makes a simple chocolate filling, and someone spends as much time decorating as preparing the ingredients along with assembling the cake. Further in the article, several recipes for this delicacy will be analyzed, as well as various ways to decorate it.

A few useful notes

The following few tips will greatly help you with the process of decorating the mocha coffee cake. The following is a list of them:

• You can make beautiful chocolate chips with a regular vegetable peeler. She needs to cut off the top layer of the tile.
• Also, when preparing chocolate chips, you must first sharpen it on a separate plate. Then it can be transferred to the cake itself. Thanks to this manipulation, you can evenly distributedecoration.

• Exactly the same algorithm of work with cream decorations. Cook them separately on a plate, then carefully transfer them to the cake with a knife. This will also help to avoid the presence of damaged jewelry. Because if one of them fails, you can always make a new one and transfer it.
• Another important note concerns the leveling of the cream on the surface of the cake. After you finish spreading it, run a wide hot knife across the coating. This will work like an iron, flattening the decoration.

Now you can move on to the Mocha cake recipe.

First cooking and decorating method

Despite the fact that such a cake is quite simple to prepare, it will require a lot of ingredients. As a result, for a biscuit you need:

• one hundred grams of wheat flour;
• four chicken eggs;
• one hundred grams of sugar;
• 30 grams of butter.

Cream Ingredients

The following list of products is designed for the three most important components of delicacy. To prepare the cream, you need:

• one chicken egg;
• 250 grams of butter;
• four egg yolks;
• 200 grams of sugar.

Products for paste and impregnation

Now you need to prepare products for the last important components of the cake. First you need to deal with coffee paste:

• 125 grams of water;
• 125 grams of sugar;
• 65 grams instantcoffee.

Syrup:

• 60 grams of water;
• 60 grams of sugar.

Cooking process

It will take approximately two hours to prepare all the ingredients and assemble the cake. Start by making coffee paste. Here's what to do:

To begin with, pour the specified amount of sugar into a saucepan and heat. It is necessary to continue the procedure until the granules are completely melted and the caramel color is acquired

• Next here you need to pour coffee and pour water. Boil the mixture, stirring constantly. In the end, it should be rich and slightly liquid. After that, it must be removed in the refrigerator.
• Now, according to the Mocha cake recipe, you need to prepare the base. For a biscuit in one saucepan, you need to combine sugar and eggs.
• Place the dish in a water bath and continue whisking the contents with a whisk until it reaches a temperature of about 43 degrees.
• After that, the pan must be removed from the water bath and processed with a mixer for six minutes. You need to stop the procedure after the mass increases in volume and becomes lush, while it must retain its shape.
• Now here you need to add and mix the flour in parts. Continue stirring until the mass is homogeneous.
• After that melted butter is added. It must also be mixed into the dough and processed untiluntil the latter has an airy texture.
• The form for making a biscuit at home should be covered with baking paper. Next, you need to pour in the dough. It is advisable to divide it into several portions and cook several cakes separately. Bake them at 180 degrees for 25 or 30 minutes.
• Further, according to the Mocha cake recipe, you need to prepare a cream. To do this, mix the egg and yolks in one bowl. Process the resulting mixture with a mixer until a fluffy consistency of a light shade is obtained.
• Now you need to put sugar into the saucepan, pour it with water and cook on fire until it reaches 116 degrees.
• Once the desired state is obtained, start again processing the mixture of egg and yolks with the mixer, while adding the prepared syrup to it.
• Keep beating until smooth and cool.
• Next, add butter (it should be at room temperature).
• Then pour in the previously prepared pasta (set aside one tablespoon of it).
• Mix all contents again until you get a fluffy and smooth cream. It should take on a coffee hue.
• Now you need to figure out how to soak the cake layers. To do this, combine sugar, water and the rest of the pasta in a saucepan. Boil the contents until the sugar is completely dissolved and boil.
• Next, you need to grease the top side of each cake with cream and evenly distribute it over the surface. After processing the latter, you need to smear the sides of the cake with cream and level it so thatso that there are no spaces anywhere.
• According to the recipe for this "Mocha" cake, the decoration is optional. After assembly, the cake must be put in the refrigerator for 1.5 hours.

Second recipe

In this case, the decoration will be more complex. The composition is also different. You need the following ingredients for Mocha Cake:

• wheat flour;
• 350 grams of butter;
• 7 chicken eggs;
• three yolks;
• 350 grams of powdered sugar;
• three tablespoons of instant coffee;
• 300 grams of water;
• 10 teaspoons of coffee extract;
• 50 grams of coffee beans in chocolate;
• peeled hazelnuts.

Recipe implementation

You will also need about two hours to cook. Here's what to do:

• Pour some water into a saucepan and bring to a boil over low heat.
• Preheat oven to 175 degrees.
• The form in which the cakes will be prepared, grease with oil.

• Melt 50 grams of butter separately.
• Now put five eggs and 180 grams of powdered sugar in a separate metal bowl. Place the dish on a pot of boiling water. Be careful not to touch the liquid.
• Start whipping the contents with a whisk, while waiting until it reaches a temperature of 60 degrees.
• After that, remove the dishes from the pan and continue beatingcontent for an additional ten minutes. A sign of the termination of the procedure should be room temperature, airy foam and an increase in volume.
• In a separate mug, mix a tablespoon of coffee and the same amount of hot water. Stir and pour in the previously melted warm butter. Blend again until a smooth paste is obtained.
• Now take five tablespoons of the egg mixture prepared earlier and add to the mug. Stir the contents until you have an even mass.
• Combine the egg and egg-butter masses. Start mixing, gradually adding flour, until the dough is not too runny.
• Next, just mix until you get a uniform airy dough.
• Once you have the desired ingredient, put it in the previously prepared baking dish.
• It will not be superfluous to twist the dough a little once so that it is evenly distributed over the dishes and comes closer to its edges. As a result, the cake will be even, without a bump in the center.
• Now the dough needs to be cooked for 30 minutes. A sign of readiness should be the departure of the biscuit from the sides and the general springiness when pressed.
• Once it has cooled in the form, it must be laid out and left to infuse for eight hours (preferably).

Further, cream is prepared according to the Mocha cake recipe.

• Mix a teaspoon of coffee extract, a tablespoon of instant coffee and a tablespoon of water. Mix everything until smooth.
• In a saucepan combine170 grams of powdered sugar and 60 milliliters of water. Start boiling.
• Mix and start beating two eggs and three yolks. You should get an air foam.
• After the syrup is heated to 120 degrees, pour it into the eggs and beat with a mixer for ten minutes, until the mass is almost completely cool.
• After that, pour in the previously prepared coffee paste and beat the butter until light.
• Combine both masses, mix and put in the refrigerator.
• To make syrup for impregnation, mix 100 milliliters of water and 130 grams of sugar. Bring to a boil and cool.
• Pour in a tablespoon of instant coffee and a teaspoon of coffee extract. Stir.
• Divide the biscuit into five layers and soak each with syrup.

Assembling and decorating

The last and most important step. For him you need:

• Cream divided into two parts: one to cover the top and sides, the second in a pastry bag. Need a star tip.
• Place the first cake and use the bag to apply the cream. Spread with a spatula and repeat with the rest of the cakes.
• Now you need to process the top surface and sides. Smooth the cream with a warm knife.
• Next, chop the hazelnuts into large slices and sprinkle them on the sides.

• Decorate the top with roses made from cream using a bag.
• Place a chocolate covered coffee bean on top of each.

Then leave the cake to infuse overnight. If you can't do that muchwait, two hours is enough.