Italian walnut cake

Italian walnut cake incredibly tasty and not difficult to prepare. After trying such a cake, you will feel real pleasure and delight. The cake is very delicate because it contains little flour.

The cake is not greasy, there is no butter, only natural cream. Very useful because it contains a large amount of walnuts. It is very easy and quick to prepare. Soft cakes, delicate cream and crunchy chocolate. Very tasty.

You can add a few drops of lemon juice to the dough. After baking, carefully separate the cakes from the parchment paper, as the cakes are fragile and can break easily. If this has already happened and the cake is broken, then it’s okay, just put the cake together like a puzzle.

Ingredients for making Italian walnut cake

• For the dough:
• flour – 1 tsp.
• eggs (proteins) – 4 pcs.
• walnuts – 150 g.
• sugar – 150 g.
• citric acid – 1 pinch.
• salt – 1 pinch.
• For the cream:
• heavy cream – 300 ml.
• powdered sugar – 1 tbsp.
• dark chocolate – 120g.

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Preparation of Italian walnut cake:

We clean the walnuts, cut them finely and dry them in a dry pan.

Beat the whites with a pinch of salt and citric acid into a foam. Gradually add sugar and beat into a thick foam.

We introduce flour, nuts, mix easily to a homogeneous consistency.

Cut out 6 circles with a diameter of 18 cm from parchment paper. Sprinkle each sheet with flour and spread the dough on each sheet. Bake in an oven preheated to 220 C for about 5 minutes.

When the cake is baked, remove it from the oven, set it aside to cool.

Melt 80 g of dark chocolate in a water bath until liquid. Brush 5 cakes with chocolate, leave the sixth cake without chocolate. Set aside to cool the chocolate.

For the cream: whip heavy cream, add 1 tbsp. powdered sugar Beat well. Put 4 tbsp in a separate container. cream Add 30 g of broken (grated) grated chocolate to the cream, mix.

We collect the cake. We put whipped cream on each cake. Cover the top with a clean, beautiful, smooth cake.

Cover the entire cake with whipped cream without chocolate. Sprinkle the cake with coarsely grated dark chocolate on top. We put it in the refrigerator to infuse a little.

Italian walnut cake finished!