This article contains the recipe for the cake "Mink"mole ", step by step explaining how to properly prepare a popular dessert now. Also indicated are the variations for the filling and the basis of the cake-biscuit. It is worth noting that the amount of ingredients is given for cooking dessert for six to eight people, if you need a smaller amount of cake, you should reduce the dosage in half.
Essential Ingredients for the Basics
To prepare the original cake "Mink Mole" with bananas by prescription, you should prepare such products:
- six eggs;
- three tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder;
- 260 grams of granulated sugar;
- 6 tbsp. spoons of warm water;
- 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder for dough;
- 220 grams of wheat flour.
Preparation of a biscuit test
По рецепту торт «Норка крота» готовится на основе usual chocolate biscuit, which is prepared as follows: the eggs should be divided into proteins and yolks. Protein whisk together with a mixer until a firm strong foam, which well preserves the spikes made by the spoon. When the mass is ready, in another bowl we beat the yolks (also with a mixer), while in the process warm water is gradually added, which will help the mass to become more foamy.
Then in small portions pour sugar, notstopping the process of whisking the yolks until the weight has turned white and the sugar is completely dissolved. Then, over the egg mass with a spoon lay out the protein, without mixing them. Above all this splendor is poured flour mixed with baking powder and cocoa, only then with a spoon, with movements from the bottom to the top, gently mix the contents of the dishes, turning it into a tender dough. In no case should you apply a mixer - at this stage it will ruin the entire air structure: the biscuit for the cake "Mink Mole" does not work out - it will be flat and lifeless, and after all its loose structure is the basis for processing the finished dessert.
Baking Basics
Pour the dough into a pre-prepared roundform: it should be laid out with parchment and a little oiled to make the finished biscuit easier to remove from the mold. He can stick, then his whole form is broken, which is very important. We put the basis for the cake "Mink Mole" in the oven, which is already warmed up to 190 ° C, and bake until ready, in no case opening the oven door for the first half hour, otherwise the biscuit dough will settle.
Readiness is checked by a wooden stick:pierce the biscuit to the middle and touch it - to touch the stick should be absolutely dry, so the base for the cake is ready. Do not immediately take out the baked biscuit from the mold, let it stand for at least fifteen minutes and only then, turning it gently, release the dough from the parchment paper. By the way: the upper part of the biscuit with baking is the bottom of the finished cake: it is more dense texture, which is good for the integrity of the prepared dish.
Filling products
For the preparation of fillings from a cream soufflé with bananas, the following ingredients will be required in the mink cake:
- six large bananas of medium ripeness;
- 250 grams of fresh cottage cheese, if possible, it is better to buy a home;
- 0.5 liters of cream or sour cream;
- 13 teaspoons of vanillin;
- 25 grams of instant gelatin, soaked in 100 grams of water;
- 170 grams of sugar, instead of it you can use powdered sugar, so that the crystals dissolve faster;
- 200 grams of dark chocolate without additives and fillers.
Preparation of the filling-soufflé
One banana along with cottage cheese and half the normsugar whisk blender to a monotonous consistency. In a separate bowl, mix the cream, vanilla and remaining sugar, whisk until lightly thickened.
Chocolate tile grate with largeholes: should be obtained shavings, which must be carefully mixed with a spoon with the curd mass. Swell the gelatin in a water bath before dissolving and pour into the chocolate mass, stirring constantly so that it is evenly distributed. After we mix together the beginning to solidify the mass of cottage cheese and whipped cream, acting with a spoon actively, but gently.
Assembling and decorating the cake
"Mink Mole" knowingly has this name:At a cut this dessert reminds underground passages of a small predator. With a completely cooled biscuit, we take out the crumb so that the bottom and sides remain intact, the thickness of which should be at least one and a half centimeters. The simplest way is to make a teaspoon with a sharp edge.
В образовавшуюся «мисочку» выкладываем очищенные, but whole bananas so that they fill the whole bottom, if necessary cut bananas for convenience, just do not need to cut them into pieces or mugs. Fill them with the finished stuffing almost completely, from above sprinkle with pieces of biscuit, left from the base. We put the cake in the fridge so that the souffle stiffens a little, then it will be easier to decorate the rest.
When the mass becomes more elastic due togelatin, continue the design of "Mink Mole": the cake on the photo looks like a slide, so we put the remaining cream on top, which is also practically frozen, so it will have irregularly shaped lumps creating the necessary "mountain of the earth". The resulting hill is sprinkled with the remnants of biscuit crumbs: it really will resemble a hill of earth in a crotch hole. If you want a more original look, you can grind a small handful of walnuts and sprinkle the top of the cake with pieces of biscuit - this will resemble sand and pebbles in the ground.
Cooking options
Soufflé for the cake "Mink Mole" can be prepared,replacing the cream with yogurt without additives, and if you want a more dietary and easy option, for fresh milk in the same amount, but by increasing the dosage of gelatin by half. Some landladies cut the bananas along two halves for the sake of economy, making two mole moves small and almost unlike the original. On the advice of the leading culinary experts, it is better not to do this, because the highlight of the dish is just in the form of these fruits, otherwise the cake turns into an ordinary dessert with curd filling.
There is also a version of the cake onthe basis of an oil rather than a classic biscuit for those who do not have the time or skills for long whipping eggs. To prepare an oil biscuit you need to take four eggs and lightly beat up with one glass of sugar, add to them 150 grams of melted butter, 100 grams of sour cream or curdled milk, three tablespoons of cocoa powder, 13 teaspoons of soda. All to mix up to a monotonous mass and to add to it two glasses of sifted flour. The resulting dough should be placed in parchment-lined form, baked at 190 ° C until cooked in the oven. With the cooled biscuit come according to the recipe described above. This cake looks original, appetizing and beautiful. Do not buy dessert in the store, try to make it yourself.
