Cake "Lolita" - recipes and secrets of baking

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

Everyone who loves desserts should definitely try the extraordinarily tasty, very delicate and moderately sweet "Lolita" cake. It's easy enough to make at home. Other fruits and berries can be used instead of cherries. The most important thing is to keep the balance between sour and sweet taste, because it is what makes this dessert so unusual.

Sponge cake "Lolita"

To start preparing a delicious dessert, prepare the following set of products:

• Milk chocolate - 250 grams.
• Eggs - eight pieces.
• Powdered sugar - 100 grams.
• Butter - 180 grams.
• Flour and granulated sugar - 100 grams each.
• Soda and vanilla - half a teaspoon each.
• Cocoa powder - three tablespoons.
• Cream 33% - half a liter.
• Gelatin - 30 grams.
• Cranberries and cherries - 100 grams.
• Cognac - for soaking berries.
• Baking powder - one teaspoon.
• Lemon juice - one tablespoonspoon.

The Lolita cake recipe has quite a lot of ingredients, but the cooking method is not that complicated:

1. To make a sponge cake, you need to beat 90 grams of powdered sugar with 100 grams of butter until smooth.
2. Separate five proteins from the yolks. Beat the last with 50 grams of sugar. And beat the chilled proteins to stable peaks with the remaining granulated sugar and lemon juice.
3. 100 grams of chocolate melt in a water bath and add it to the mixture of yolks and sugar.
4. Sift the flour, cocoa, soda and baking powder into a separate bowl and gently fold the whipped whites and melted chocolate with yolks into the dry mixture.
5. Next, put the finished dough into a greased form and send it to the oven for 55 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
6. While the finished biscuit is cooling, soak the berries for swelling in cognac and prepare the mousse.
7. Beat the butter until white and add it to the pre-melted remaining chocolate, mix.
8. Separate the yolks from the whites. Beat the yolks until white, and beat the whites with 10 grams of powdered sugar.
9. Now put everything together and mix with a silicone spatula.
10. Whip cream until thick and add dissolved gelatin to them.
11. Next, we divide the cooled biscuit for the "Lolita" cake into three parts.
12. We coat the lower cake with mousse, close it with the second cake, put berries on it and grease with cream.
13. Smear the top layer and the whole cake with cream and send torefrigerator for a couple of hours.
14. Decorate the cake as you wish.

The finished cake "Lolita" looks very bright. A cutaway photo of the dessert is shown below.

Coffee and dark chocolate cake variant

For baking the Lolita cake we need:

• Dark chocolate, margarine, sugar, flour - 100 grams each.
• Powdered sugar - 75 grams.
• Eggs - five pieces.
• Cocoa - four tablespoons.
• Lemon peel and baking powder - one teaspoon each.

Products for mousse:

• Chocolate - 150 grams.
• Eggs - three pieces.
• Powdered sugar - one tablespoon.
• Butter - 80 grams.
• Instant coffee - two tablespoons.

Layer: cranberries and cherries soaked in rum.

Cake topping: whipped cream with melted gelatin.

Algorithm for making "Lolita" cake:

1. For the cake you need to beat the butter with powder and lemon zest.
2. Beat egg whites and yolks separately with halved sugar.
3. Pour melted chocolate and yolk mixture into butter.
4. Now carefully add the sifted flour, cocoa, baking powder to this mixture, mix.
5. Add whipped egg whites to the dough and mix.
6. Bake the cake at 180 degrees for about 55 minutes.
7. Cool the finished cake and cut into three parts.
8. Cooking mousse: mix melted chocolate with whippedbutter, with coffee, with egg yolks beaten separately and whites whipped to stable peaks with powdered sugar. Put the finished mousse in the refrigerator for half an hour.
9. Lolita cake assembly:

• Corzh.
• Mousse.
• Corzh.
• Berries.
• Whipped cream.
• Corzh.

The whole cake should be smeared with cream, removed for two hours in the cold. Decorate as you wish.

Lolita Cake

If you are planning a children's party, then Lolita cakes are ideal for this event:

• Cowberry or cranberry jam - 250 grams.
• Powdered sugar - two glasses.
• Juice of half a lemon.
• Sugar - half a glass.
• Vanillin - one teaspoon.
• Eggs - four pieces.
• Flour - one glass.

Cooking method:

1. Beat eggs with sugar and put in a water bath. Continue whisking until the mixture turns white.
2. Remove from water bath, add vanilla and continue beating until stiff peaks.
3. Gently add the sifted flour and mix everything with a silicone spatula.
4. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper, pour the dough on it and bake for no more than 10 minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees.
5. After five minutes, we cut the finished cake into four parts and put each cake on top of each other, soaking them with jam. Then cut into several equal pieces.
6. Top the cakes with any icing of your choice anddecorate as you wish.

Tips

Some useful tips:

• Be sure to soak the berries in cognac or rum.
• Sift flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will be airy.
• Cream, use a high percentage of fat, otherwise they will not whip.
• Eggs and butter should be chilled before beating.
• To make whites beat better, you can add a pinch of s alt.
• Wait for the biscuit to cool completely. Otherwise, it will simply break.

Follow these simple rules and you will achieve the desired result.