Vasiliy
Kashtanov
Paramedic of the emergency medical service, at-home pastry chef
Moscow
60 2

Hello everyone! My name is Vasily. I enjoy cooking from my 13. Some of my dishes did not turn out quite well at first, but over time, I began to make success even in pastry art.

“HEAVENLY DELIGHT” TORTE

Vasiliy
Kashtanov
Paramedic of the emergency medical service, at-home pastry chef
Moscow
60 2
Ingredients
  • Sponge cake layers
  • Eggs 3 pcs
  • Sugar 75 g
  • Salt 3 g
  • GRANDPRO Cake margarine 100 g
  • Wheat flour 100 g
  • Baking powder 1 tsp
  • Milk 5 tbsp
  • Sour cherry filling
  • Pitted sour cherries 300 g
  • Sugar 100 g
  • Potato starch 2 tbsp.
  • Cream
  • Cream 23% fat 350 ml
  • Sugar 120 g
  • Mascarpone 250 g
  • Yogurt 400 g
  • Cream thickener 24 g
  • Vanillin 8 g
  • Soaking for sponge cake layers
  • Dry white wine 100 ml
  • Water 30 ml
  • Garnish
  • Meringue
  • Icing buttons
cooking

Sponge cake layers

  • Whisk eggs with sugar and salt until fluffy foam.
  • Melt GRANDPRO Cake margarine on the stove in a heavy-bottomed saucepan (do not boil!). Remove from the stove, cool slightly and, gradually whisking, slowly add to the sugar-egg mixture. Whisk well.
  • Add flour and baking powder (after sifting through a sieve); whisk all again. At the very end, add milk and whisk well.
  • Cover the resulting dough with a damp towel and let it rest for 15 minutes.
  • Divide the dough into two parts, bake in an oven at 180˚C for 30 minutes.

Sour cherry filling

  • Put sour cherries in a saucepan, add sugar, heat to a boil and cook for two minutes. Add potato starch, stir and boil for another two minutes, remove from the stove.
  • Use immediately while it is hot.

Cream

  • Combine all the ingredients and whisk until smooth.

Soaking for sponge cake layers

  • Mix wine and water.

Assembling the torte

  • Soak the sponge cake layers with a mixture of wine and water.
  • Put the hot sour cherry filling on the first cake.
  • Put part of the cream on the sour cherry filling, then the second cake, then the cream.
  • Flatten and refrigerate for 12 hours.
  • Take the torte out of the refrigerator, take off the mold, coat the torte sides with cream and smooth it.
  • Garnish the torte with meringue and icing buttons.