Dark chocolate cake is a great base for a creepy festive dessert. Decorate it with a spider mesh or mummy, made from melted and stretched into a web of marshmallows. с друзьями: 
Time: 3 час. 35 min Difficulty: easy Servings: 8 – 10 In recipes, measured capacity: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cups (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teahouse spoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Contents
Ingredients for the recipe:
Biscuit
- 0.66 Art. (2/3 tbsp.) Vegetable oil and optionally for lubrication mold
- 1 tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp. boiling water
- 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 1.75 Art. premium wheat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp fine salt
- 1 tbsp. whole milk
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract
- You will need: two round biscuit tins 20 cm in diameter
Filling and Glaze
- 1.5 tbsp. fat cream
- 0.75 Art. sifted cocoa powder
- 220 gr crushed semisweet chocolate
- 1 tsp espresso powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- A pinch of fine salt
- 2 tbsp. l (30 gr.) Butter
- 0.33 Art. sifted icing sugar
Decoration
- 2 tbsp. mini marshmallows (about 110 gr.)
- Sugar spider or eyes
Recipes with similar ingredients: biscuit dough, higher flour varieties, eggs, cream, milk, vanilla extract, icing sugar, semisweet chocolate, cocoa, coffee, marshmallows
Recipe preparation:
- Make a biscuit: center the wire rack oven and preheat to 180 ° C. Lay out the bottom of both cake tins parchment paper and grease the parchment and the walls of the mold vegetable oil.
- Mix cocoa powder and boiling water for 5 minutes. (this will help make the chocolate taste more saturated).
- Combine sugar, flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Mix the brewed cocoa, vegetable oil, milk, eggs and vanilla in a medium-sized bowl. Pour cocoa mixture into sugar mix and mix until smooth (the dough will be liquid). Divide the dough is equally divided between the two forms. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until cakes will not become elastic in the center. To check availability, stick the toothpick in the center, it should be clean. Give cool completely in shape.
- Prepare the filling and icing: heat the cream on simmer the steam bath, stirring occasionally until Steam will appear. Stir in cocoa powder, chocolate, espresso, vanilla and salt, mix until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add butter, stir until melted. Stir sugar powder until it is completely dissolved. Give the glaze completely cool off.
- Assemble the cake: Put one cake side down. on a dish or cake stand. Put in the center 1 tbsp. glaze and evenly distribute, slightly not reaching the edge of the cake. Cover the second cake, bottom side up and pour the top and sides of the cake with the remaining glaze. Draw the decoration: warm the marshmallows in microwave until they begin to increase in size and become soft enough to mix them. Let stand a few minutes to cool a little. Spray your hands with a cooking spray. To make a web, take a marshmallow ball from a tablespoon and stretch a strip across the cake. Do this several times in different directions to get a web-like mesh from marshmallows. To draw a mummy, stretch the marshmallows so that stripes on the cake went in one direction, leaving a small gap between them for the eyes. Garnish with sugar spider or paste eyes for the mummy.
