Торт «Дунайские волны» является ярким representative of German cuisine. This dessert includes fresh or canned cherries, creamy cream pudding and two kinds of sponge cake: classic light and chocolate. How to cook a cake "Danube waves"? The recipe, photo and detailed description of the cooking process will be given in this article.
Description of the cake "Danube waves"
The classic German dessert Donauwelle is famousus under the name "Danube waves". This cake consists of a two-layer sponge cake. The classic version of the dish as a filling involves the use of fresh cherries. Canned berries are also allowed. Vanilla pudding acts as a cream in this dessert. On top of the cake "Danube Waves" should be filled with chocolate icing, which has another name - couverture.
Чаще всего для приготовления десерта используется rectangular or square shape. Serve cake is recommended a la carte. The top of the dish is best decorated with a wave-like pattern, which can be applied to the still frozen glaze with a bread knife. So the appearance of the dessert will be in harmony with its name.
Below is a detailed description of the preparation process of the classic Danube Waves dessert.
Ingredients for sponge cake
To prepare the cake will need the following products:
- sugar - 200 grams;
- chicken egg - 5 pieces;
- butter - 250 grams;
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet;
- flour - 350 grams;
- baking powder for dough - 3 teaspoons;
- milk - 1 tablespoon;
- cocoa powder - 20 grams;
- salt - on the tip of a knife;
- pitted cherries - 700 grams.
Ingredients for Cream
For the preparation of butter cream will need the following components:
- vanilla-flavored pudding - 1 sachet;
- milk - 500 milliliters;
- butter - 250 grams.
Ingredients for Covert
The following products are required to make chocolate coating:
- butter - 40 grams;
- black chocolate - 200 grams.
Below is a step-by-step description of cooking classic dessert "Danube waves".
Cake "Danube waves": the process of making biscuit base
To make a cake biscuit, you need to do the following steps.
Put in a container of softened butter. Add sugar plain, vanilla and salt. Mix these ingredients with a mixer until the mass acquires a uniform consistency.
Add one chicken egg to the mixture and beat the mixture using a mixer for thirty seconds. To carry out the same procedure with all remaining eggs, driving in one by one and mixing.
Add to the resulting mass a mixture of sifted flour and baking powder for the dough. You need to add these ingredients in two steps. Stir the dough using a mixer at low speed.
Rectangular baking dish of 30 x 40 centimeters in size should be covered with parchment. Lay out 2/3 of the dough and level it well.
Mix cocoa powder with milk and add the resulting mass to the remaining dough. Mix well.
Put the dough with cocoa in the form on top of the light layer. Flatten.
Dry cherries using paper towels. Spread the berries evenly over the dough, pressing a little each of them into the brown layer.
Bake in the oven preheated to 200 ° C for forty minutes. When the specified time has elapsed, remove the finished sponge cake from the oven and leave it to cool.
While the base of the cake is baked, you should start preparing the pudding. This process is described below.
Cooking Vanilla Pudding
The pudding cream is made as follows.You need to make a cream of milk and a bag of vanilla pudding according to the recipe indicated on the pack. Add sugar, if indicated in the instructions. Cover the container with the prepared mass of food film and leave to cool at room temperature. Beat butter with a mixer.
One teaspoon to add the oily mass to the cooled pudding, gently stirring. A prerequisite is that these components must have the same temperature!
Apply the cream on the cooled cake. Put in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
While the Danube Waves cake in the fridge will be soaked with cream, it is recommended to make a couverture. This process is described below.
Chocolate glaze preparation
To make a couverture you need to donext steps. Break the chocolate into small pieces. Put them in a bowl. Add butter. Melt these ingredients in a water bath. Apply the couverture on the cooled cake. Using a bread knife, apply a wavy pattern to the surface.
Dessert is ready!
Cake "Danube waves" with apples
Кроме классического рецепта приготовления десерта “Danube waves”, when cherry is used as a filling, there is another interesting variation of this cake. It is recommended to replace the berries with apples. Due to this, the piquant sourish note will remain unchanged.
How to make a cake "Danube waves"? A recipe with a detailed description of each step is given below.
Ingredients for sponge cake
To prepare the cake will need the following products:
- sugar - 65 grams;
- chicken egg - 3 pieces;
- butter - 150 grams;
- flour - 250 grams;
- baking powder for dough - 1.5 tsp;
- cocoa powder - 20 grams;
- milk - 1 tablespoon;
- apples sour - 500 grams.
Ingredients for Cream
For the preparation of butter cream will need the following components:
- vanilla-flavored pudding - 1 sachet;
- milk - 500 milliliters;
- butter - 150 grams.
Cooking biscuit base
To make biscuit cakes, do the following:
- Put in a container of softened butter, add granulated sugar, mix with a mixer until the mass has a uniform consistency;
- Add one chicken egg to the mixture and beat the mixture using a mixer for thirty seconds. To carry out the same procedure with all remaining eggs, hammering in one by one and mixing;
- Add to the resulting mass a mixture of sifted flour and baking powder for the dough. You need to add these ingredients in two steps. Stir the dough with a mixer at low speed;
- Rectangular baking dish of 30 x 40 centimeters in size should be laid with parchment. Put in her half the dough. Well level it;
- Mix cocoa powder with milk and add the resulting mass in the remaining dough, mix well;
- Peel the washed apples, remove the core and cut each of them into eight pieces. Spread the fruit slices evenly over the dough, pressing a little of them into the brown layer;
- Bake in oven preheated to 190 ° C for forty minutes. When the specified time has elapsed, remove the finished sponge cake from the oven and leave it to cool.
While the base of the cake is baked, you should start preparing the pudding. This process is described below.
Cooking Vanilla Pudding
Pudding cream is made like this:
- Prepare cream from milk and a bag of vanilla pudding according to the recipe indicated on the pack, add sugar, if indicated in the instructions;
- Cover the container with the prepared mass of food film and leave to cool at room temperature;
- Beat butter with a mixer.One teaspoon to add it to the cooled pudding, gently stirring. A prerequisite is that these components must have the same temperature;
- Apply the cream on the cooled cake. Decorate the surface of the dessert with cocoa powder. Put in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Dessert is ready. Enjoy your meal!
Conclusion
Cake "Danube waves" - a combination of airtwo types of biscuit cakes, cherry filling with a pleasant sourness, vanilla pudding and chocolate coating. The article provides a classic recipe for making this dessert and a variation in which berries are recommended to be replaced with apples. Thanks to the detailed description of each step, the creation of such a culinary masterpiece will be quite simple. You can also bake a cake "Danube waves" in a slow cooker. The composition and cooking process in this case will remain the same.
