Like an artist without an easel 🥮️ Popular Latvian cake Cielavina

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Latvia will be remembered by any visitor by the sea and pastries! Try to make this cake and you won't want anything else: An incredible harmony of crispy nut cakes and delicate butter cream create the favorite Celavinja cake.

Latvian cake - meringue with chocolate cream

Cakes

  • Chop the dried nuts with a blender or finely chop with a knife.
  • Line a baking sheet with baking paper and draw 2 circles with a diameter of 20 cm on it.
  • For convenience, pre-grease a baking sheet with oil.
  • Add vanilla sugar and sifted flour to the chopped nuts.
Preheat oven to 150 ° C degrees.
  • Divide room temperature eggs into yolks and whites.
  • Beat egg whites until soft peaks..
  • Continuing to beat, add the remaining sugar. You should get a lush and stable mass.
  • Add dry ingredients (nuts, flour, sugar) into the mass in several steps.
  • Divide the dough into 2 drawn circles and send to the oven.
Decrease temperature to 130° C degrees.
  • After 2 hours, turn off the oven and leave the cakes until the next day, or simply remove them for this time in any dry place.
  • Get ready-made cakes and cut evenly.
  • Grind the trimmings into crumbs, add a tablespoon of cocoa and mix.

CREAM

  • Mix water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
  • Leave the boiled syrup for a couple of minutes on low heat.
  • Add a pinch of salt to the egg yolks. Beat until white.
  • Pour hot syrup in a trickle. Beat until thick and at room temperature.
  • Add softened butter.
  • Pour in condensed milk little by little.
  • The cream is ready!
  • Add cocoa and alcohol last.

ASSEMBLING THE CAKE

  • Set aside 2-3 tablespoons of the cream in pastry bag for cake decoration and put in the refrigerator.
  • Spread the remaining cream on the cake layer and on the top and side of the cake.
  • First spread the bottom crust and cover with the top, even side up.
  • Gently grease the side of the cake.
  • Place the cake on a plate. Cream the top and decorate.
  • Refrigerate for a couple of hours!

See the subtleties and nuances of cooking in a detailed video clip.

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