Sour cream cake recipe

Smetannik Cake – this delicate dessert recipe with soft sponge cake and sour cream frosting will delight any home-baking lover. Make it for your holiday table, and it will be a true highlight!

Step-by-step recipe

Step 1:

Break two eggs into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and beat with a mixer, gradually adding sugar.

Step 2:

Add heavy cream and beat again.

Step 3:

Mix the sifted flour with baking powder, pour into the whipped mixture and mix with a mixer at low speed.

Step 4:

Prepare two pans by lining the bottoms with parchment paper and lightly greasing them. Place one-third of the batter into the first pan.

Step 5:

Add sifted cocoa powder to the remaining dough and mix with a mixer at low speed.

Step 6:

Pour the chocolate batter into the second pan.

Step 7:

Bake the cakes at 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit) – white cakes for 10-12 minutes, chocolate cakes for 15-16 minutes. Cool the finished cakes.

Step 8:

Place heavy cream in a bowl, add powdered sugar and vanilla sugar and mix.

Step 9:

Cut out slightly smaller diameter cake layers from the cake layers – the scraps will be used for crumbs.

Step 10:

Cut the chocolate cake lengthwise into two parts.

Step 11:

Place the chocolate cake layer on a plate, spread it with sour cream, place the white cake layer on top and spread it with cream as well.

Step 12:

Align the cake layers into a ring, place the chocolate cake layer that was the bottom layer when baking on top and also grease it with cream.

Step 13:

Place the cake in the refrigerator to soak for 2 hours.

Step 14:

Grind the cake scraps in a coffee grinder – chocolate and white separately.

Step 15:

After trimming the edges with a spatula, remove the ring, spread the remaining cream on the sides of the cake and cover the cake with chocolate chips, decorate the top with white chips.