Chocolate Easter cake - a delicious recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: gas or electric oven, stove or frying top, 1 liter pan, mixer, 2 deep containers, sieve, 4 deep bowls, citrus juice squeezer, fine grater, 8 liter pan, tablespoon, teaspoon, kitchen scale, measuring glass, cloth towel, wooden skewer, fork, knife, silicone spatula, cake molds, parchment paper, dessert plate.

Ingredients

Step cooking

• Pour 1.5-2 stacks into the pan. water and over high heat bring to a boil.
• We rinse 1 glass of raisins under running water, pour it into a deep container, pour boiling water and leave.

Opara

1. Pour 0.5 liters of milk into a liter pan and heat on a low heat until warm. Pour warm milk into a deep container, add 1 tbsp. l sugar and 50 g of yeast, then stir with a tablespoon until the yeast dissolves.
   
2. Pour 200 g of flour into the yeast mixture and stir with a spoon. If the dough turned out to be liquidy, add another 100 g of flour, until we get the dough, like pancakes. We cover the container with a dish of cloth with a kitchen towel and put in a warm place for 30-40 minutes to lift.
   

Report to the dough

1. Break 4 eggs into a deep container and beat them with a mixer or food processor in a stable foam. Add 260 g of sugar to the egg mass, 2 tsp. vanilla sugar and beat all about 10 minutes until the crystals are completely dissolved.
   
2. We wash 1 orange under running water, after which we rub the top layer of the peel on a fine grater to make a zest.
   
3. We cut the orange into 2 halves and with the help of a citrus juice squeezer squeeze the orange and pour the juice into a deep bowl. Melt 200 g of butter in a deep bath in a deep bowl, and 200 g of chocolate with 30 g of butter in a deep water bath, stirring to obtain a homogeneous mass. Strain the steamed raisins and squeeze it slightly with your hands to remove excess water.
   

Dough

1. When 30-40 minutes have passed, pour warm melted butter into the risen dough, add steamed raisins, orange juice, zest, 40 g of almond flakes and beaten egg mixture, then mix thoroughly with a silicone spatula. Pour 1 kg of flour into the dough and mix thoroughly with a spatula until a thick, viscous mass is obtained.
   
2. Water the dough on top of 1 tbsp. l sunflower oil and stir with a spatula. Add 2 tbsp. l of melted chocolate on opposite sides of the dough, with a spatula we push it several times into the mass, then turn the dough over, add the rest of the chocolate there and mix lightly to make the dough marble.
   
3. We shift the dough into an 8-liter pan, cover with a cloth towel and send it to a warm place for about 1 hour, so that it rises to the top of the pan as much as possible.
   

Kulichi

1. Turn on the oven at 50 ° C and leave to warm.Cover the bottom and sides of Easter cakes with parchment paper.
   
2. Mix the dough a little to precipitate, and place it with your hands in the mold, placing it so that it takes a little more than half of the molds.
   
3. We send cakes for raising in the oven until they rise to the very top. We increase the temperature to 160-180 ° C and bake the product for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, we check with a wooden skewer whether the cakes were baked, and if the splinter is dry, remove the molds from the oven and let them cool for 10-15 minutes. If the skewer is wet, leave them in the oven for another 10-15 minutes, and then pull them out of the oven.
   
4. We take out cakes from the form and leave to cool for 6 hours without removing parchment paper.
   

Decoration

1. Melt in a water bath 250 g of chocolate with 50 g of butter, stirring it until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
   
2. Evenly apply a tablespoon of chocolate cake to the cakes on top, sprinkle each with 1 tbsp. l almond flakes, and let the products stand for about 24 hours.
   
3. After a day, we cut the cake into portions, put it on a dessert plate and serve.
   

Important! While the cakes are raised and baked in the oven, do not open the door so as not to “catch a cold” of the dough, and then you will get lush high items.

Video recipe

If you need to clarify such subtleties as kneading dough or adding melted chocolate to it, it is worth looking at these points in the video recipe.

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