Cake "Grafsky ruins": the best treat for the holiday

Cake "Grafsky ruins" is known under the most different names: "Castle of Love", "Knight's Castle", "Grafsky Castle", etc. At first glance it may seem that it is very laborious in preparation, but it can be cooked quite quickly. An important element of this cake is meringue. At the same time, most of the time is often spent preparing it. Therefore, if the guests are on the threshold, it is worth buying a ready meringue.

And now consider how to make a cake "Grafskie ruins". The recipe below is traditional, however, this does not mean that you can not experiment with it. For example, this cake can be varied with dried fruits and even fresh raspberries or strawberries.

Cake "Grafsky ruins" (biscuit)

You will need the following:

Biscuit:

- 250 g of flour;

- 200 g of sugar-sand;

- five eggs;

- 15 g of soda;

- half the tiles of dark chocolate.

Bézé:

- 3 proteins;

- 200 g of powder;

- a pinch of salt.

Oily cream with condensed milk:

- half a can of boiled condensed milk;

325 g of oil;

- half a can of non-brewed condensed milk.

Protein Cream :

- 2 proteins;

- half a glass of powder;

- half a glass of chopped nuts.

Preparation:

We make a biscuit. To start the egg to be beaten with sugar. To this mass gradually add flour and slaked in vinegar soda. Then we mix everything thoroughly. Before pouring the dough into the mold, it needs to be covered with parchment. In this case, the sides of the mold should not be lubricated, because then the dough will not rise evenly. We bake biscuit cake at a temperature of 180-200 degrees 20-30 minutes. Ready biscuit should be cooled and cut along the perimeter by 2 cakes.

Beze. This ingredient will make the cake "Grafsky ruins" truly festive. To make a meringue, you need to beat the whites, sugar powder and salt before forming a thick foam. Typically, this will take at least 10 minutes. Beating will be easier if you carefully separate the proteins from the yolks. Sugar is added gradually (40 g each). Next, the dry baking sheet is covered with parchment paper, on which we lay out the squirrels with a teaspoon. It is better to use two spoons: one you can scoop up proteins, and the other - to separate the proteins from the first spoon. Bake bake at 100 degrees for about 1 hour.

Protein cream. Before preparing it, the proteins must be cooled in the refrigerator. Then beat them with powdered sugar. Then gradually add the nuts.

Oily cream. Softened butter is beaten with boiled condensed milk. Then pour unboiled condensed milk and whisk again. The cream will have a better consistency if the butter is whipped separately. It is equally important that it is fresh, unsalted and without any third-party flavors.

Cake "Grafsky ruins" - assembly and decoration

One sponge cake is lubricated with oil cream. We close it with another cake, the top of which must be covered with a layer of the same cream. Next, each of the cooked meringues is dipped with one side into a protein cream. Then dry the meringue on the surface of the biscuit (rows in the form of a cone). The surface of the "ruins" is decorated with melted chocolate and chopped nuts.