Each of us has a cake from our birth and childhood, the taste of which is preserved in our memory even after many years. For some it is “Napoleon”, for others it is “Medovik”. There can be a lot of options. Today we will remember the “Curly Vanka” cake, the photo of which is posted below. We will present three options for its preparation (with condensed milk, sour cream and kefir) in our article.
The secret to making this delicacy is the unusual taste of the cream. It not only tastes like the familiar “Plombir” ice cream, but also perfectly soaks all the cakes. It turns out very tender and incredibly tasty.
The “Curly Vanka” cake is prepared step by step in the following sequence:
While the cakes are cooling, it's time to make the cream.
Sour cream or condensed milk? Housewives often ask themselves this question when it comes time to soak the diced chocolate cake. The “Curly Vanka” cake is prepared with both creams. But, according to most people, it turns out especially tasty with condensed milk. Well, the taste of the promised ice cream "Plombir" is given to it by whipped cream.
So, to prepare the cream, cream with a fat content of 35% (250 ml) is whipped into a fluffy mass. To check their readiness, you need to turn the plate upside down. Perfectly whipped cream will never fall on the table. When the quality test is passed, you can add condensed milk (200 ml) to the cream, pouring it carefully in a thin stream.
The finished cream can be immediately spread on a light cake layer. There should not be enough of it, since the cake will turn out tender only if all the cakes are well soaked. Chopped cubes of chocolate cake are added in parts to the remaining cream. After they are soaked a little, they are laid out in a heap on the base of the cake.
The final stage in preparing the Curly Vanka cake is its decoration. To do this, you can sprinkle it with chocolate chips (grated chocolate) or prepare a delicious glaze. The second option, according to reviews, is more popular.
To prepare the glaze, pour milk (4 tablespoons) into a thick-bottomed saucepan, add sugar (50 g), add butter (50 g) and cocoa powder (2 teaspoons). All ingredients are brought to a boil with constant stirring. After this, after 1 minute, the saucepan can be removed from the heat. Hot icing is poured onto the top of the cake. Now you need to put it in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours or overnight, after which you can enjoy the dessert familiar from childhood.
In this recipe, chocolate cake is used as a base, and the light one is cut into pieces and soaked in cream. But this doesn’t make the taste of the Curly Vanka cake any worse.
To prepare the dough, beat 3 eggs with a glass of sugar into a foamy mass. Then kefir of maximum fat content (200 ml) is poured in and soda (1 teaspoon) is added. Without stopping the beating process, sift flour into the dough. In total you will need about 6 tablespoons. The finished dough is divided into 2 parts. The first is immediately poured into the mold, and cocoa (2 tablespoons) is added to the second. The cakes are baked at 180° in a preheated oven. In 30 minutes they will be ready. They need to be cooled well, after which the dark cake is placed on a flat plate, and the light cake is cut into cubes.
The cream is prepared using sour cream. For it, take thick homemade sour cream (200 g) and a glass of sugar. Part of the whipped cream is laid out on the dark cake layer and spread over it in an even layer. The second part is used to soak the cut pieces. They are dipped one at a time in the cream, and then placed in a heap on the first cake layer. The finished cake is poured with pre-prepared chocolate glaze.
A special feature of this product is the rich taste of sour cream. This cooking option will appeal to those who love this fermented milk product.
"Curly Vanka" - a cake loved by many since childhood - is prepared relatively quickly and easily. The recipe can be presented step by step as follows:
The following tips will help you achieve the perfect taste of your childhood favorite cake:
If you are not yet capable of making complex cakes, but you still want to pamper your loved ones with homemade baked goods, then bake the “Vanka Curly” cake. This is a very tasty and completely hassle-free recipe for making a homemade cake. Even a beginner will succeed the first time, as it is simply impossible to ruin it. At the same time, the “Vanka Curly” cake turns out to be quite original in appearance, so you can bake it for a festive table.
TIME: 1 hour 40 min.
Easy
Servings: 6
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Beat eggs with sugar in a deep bowl until fluffy.
Add kefir and margarine to the mixture, which you transfer to a liquid state in advance. Margarine can be replaced with butter; melt in a water bath or in the microwave.
Quench the soda with vinegar and add to the dough. Stir thoroughly.
Sift the flour directly into the cup with the dough and mix until all the flour lumps disappear.
Divide the batter into two parts. Leave one part light, and the second, adding cocoa, darken it to a chocolate color.
Bake for 25-30 minutes at 170 degrees.
Take out the finished cake, let it cool a little and separate it from the paper on which it was baked. When the cake has cooled completely, take a plate and cut out a circle in the center. This will be the base of the “Vanka curly” cake.
To ensure that the base is well saturated, cut off the top. Put the resulting base aside, and tear everything else into small pieces with your hands. That is, you don’t cut with a knife, but rather tear it so that the edges of the pieces turn out torn.
In order not to waste time, prepare sour cream while baking and cooling the cake. Just beat cold sour cream with powdered sugar.
Cook and icing to decorate the cake. Combine milk, cocoa and sugar in a suitable cup and simmer over low heat until thick, adding butter at the very end. You should get a thick chocolate mass.
Today we will remember our childhood with homemade cakes “Vanka Curly”. Previously, when fresh cake was not sold at every turn in supermarkets, every mother wanted to please her family with “sweets.” The recipe was not complicated or had a large range of ingredients, so the cake was prepared in every home.
Why is “Vanka” and even “curly”? “Curly” or curly - because chaotically torn into pieces cakes in sour cream and glaze, laid out in a heap on a round base, resemble curls on the head. And “Vanka” - because this name was very common when the recipe appeared. And it was very close in spirit to our people, which is why the cake became so beloved. Agree, this name is much more perky than “Curly Pinscher”.
This recipe is simple - you can throw everything into a blender and the dough is ready! There are also products that everyone can find. Usually the recipe is based on kefir or sour cream. You can, of course, make sponge dough, but it will be a different cake. I offer you two classic recipes. And you can always change them to suit yourself. Let's look at the kefir recipe first.
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Here the portion will be twice as large.
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You can bring a little bit of yourself into this culinary masterpiece. For example, usually a light cake layer is placed on top, but I prefer it when the chocolate cake is torn. Then “Vanka curly” is brown-haired! And of course, instead of glaze, you can simply sprinkle with grated chocolate. Then the cake is even curlier. And finally, add your favorite nuts or berries to the recipe.
Having studied the method of preparing this dessert, we can happily say that “Vanka curly” can be prepared not only for a family feast, but also for a festive table. Just arrange a holiday for your loved one and treat yourself to this delicious and delicate dessert.
If you are not yet capable of making complex cakes, but you still want to pamper your loved ones with homemade baked goods, then bake the “Vanka Curly” cake. This is a very tasty and completely hassle-free recipe for making a homemade cake. Even a beginner will succeed the first time, as it is simply impossible to ruin it. At the same time, the “Vanka Curly” cake turns out to be quite original in appearance, so you can bake it for a festive table.
Beat eggs with sugar in a deep bowl until fluffy.
Add kefir and margarine to the mixture, which you transfer to a liquid state in advance. Margarine can be replaced with butter; melt in a water bath or in the microwave.
Quench the soda with vinegar and add to the dough. Stir thoroughly.
Sift the flour directly into the cup with the dough and mix until all the flour lumps disappear.
Divide the batter into two parts. Leave one part light, and the second, adding cocoa, darken it to a chocolate color.
You will bake the dough on a spacious baking sheet in one layer. This will significantly reduce the cake preparation time. If there is no baking sheet, then you can use a round pan, but you will have to bake two cakes. Line the bottom of the baking sheet with baking paper and place all the dough on it, alternating colors in a chaotic manner. That is, the cake should turn out spotty, with a clear delineation of color boundaries, see the step-by-step photo for more details.
Bake for 25-30 minutes at 170 degrees.
Take out the finished cake, let it cool a little and separate it from the paper on which it was baked. When the cake has cooled completely, take a plate and cut out a circle in the center. This will be the base of the “Vanka curly” cake.
To ensure that the base is well saturated, cut off the top. Put the resulting base aside, and tear everything else into small pieces with your hands. That is, you don’t cut with a knife, but rather tear it so that the edges of the pieces turn out torn.
In order not to waste time, prepare sour cream while baking and cooling the cake. Just beat cold sour cream with powdered sugar.
Cook and icing to decorate the cake. Combine milk, cocoa and sugar in a suitable cup and simmer over low heat until thick, adding butter at the very end. You should get a thick chocolate mass.
Assembling the “Vanka curly” cake. Place the prepared base on a flat plate and coat it with a layer of sour cream. And on top you begin to lay out pieces dipped in cream. Since each piece combines both light and dark colors, you can lay them out in any order.
The end result should be a slide with a beautiful embossed top.
Transfer the cooled glaze into a pastry syringe and pour a thin stream over the cake over its entire textured surface.
The glaze should be spread chaotically so that pieces of biscuit in the white sour cream are visible.
When the “Vanka Curly” cake has been in the refrigerator for several hours and has become incredibly tender, pour aromatic tea into cups and treat your family to a delicious homemade cake.
Alexander Gushchin
I can’t vouch for the taste, but it will be hot :)
Content
One of the most beloved homemade desserts, which has not lost its popularity for the second century in a row, is Vanka curly cake. It compares favorably with other cakes with its simplicity of recipe, interesting appearance and light, pleasant taste. To prepare this quick but tasty dessert, you will need simple and affordable products that can always be found in the refrigerator of a thrifty housewife.
This dessert received such an interesting, playful name among the common people. The fact is that the finished cake looks like the unruly curls on the head of a simple Russian guy, and Vanka is an endearing form of the most common male name in Russia. Although this cake is of original Russian origin, a similar dessert is also prepared in Europe and America, only there it is called “Curly Pinscher”. Other cakes have the same shape, for example, “Pancho” or “Count Ruins,” but they differ significantly from “Vanka Curly” in recipe.
All you need to make “Vanka Curly” is a simple sponge cake made with kefir or other fermented milk product, sweet sour cream and a little chocolate. The original recipe for the dish involves first placing light and brown cakes, torn into pieces, in a chaotic order on a round biscuit base. Then the biscuit mound is filled with a creamy mass of sour cream and sugar, and finally decorated with chocolate glaze.
There are several basic recipes for the famous cake under the funny name “Vanka Curly”. To prepare the biscuit dough, you need to mix the main ingredients in a blender, pour the dough onto a baking sheet and bake the cake. It’s the same with cream - you just need to beat sour cream with sugar, and if you don’t want to bother with classic glaze, you can easily replace it with melted chocolate.
Modern housewives are increasingly adapting the original recipe for the Vanka curly dessert to suit their capabilities and preferences. Some confectioners put finely chopped fresh or dried fruits, crushed nuts, and marmalade between the pieces of biscuit. Others replace the sponge cake with cookies, sour cream with condensed milk, and instead of icing they simply sprinkle the cake with grated chocolate. Each of the options has the right to life, but the classic recipe for a sweet dish of kefir sponge cake and sour cream remains the most popular and successful.
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The sponge cake for the Vanka curly cake can be prepared not only with kefir, but also with other fermented milk products - sour cream, fermented baked milk, drinking yogurt. The most fluffy and delicate-tasting cake is made with sour cream, and in combination with airy sour cream, such a dessert is simply delicious. Prepare a quick but surprisingly tasty Vanka curly cake with sour cream, as in the photo.
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The third version of curly Vanka is with condensed milk. This sweet dairy product can be added not only to cream, but also to dough. Condensed milk gives the finished biscuit a special milky taste and delicate aroma, and makes the creamy mass look like an ice cream. Such an unusually tasty composition will not only be an ideal addition to a Sunday family tea party, but also a real decoration for the holiday table.
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