Chocolate cake with chocolate cream

Chocolate cake with chocolate cream and orange frosting. Very tasty! For the festive table, I make such a cake from two cakes.

Ingredients

• For test:
• Medium eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 160 g
• Sour cream - 300 g
• Flour - 180 g
• Cocoa powder - 40 g
• Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
• For impregnation:
• Orange juice - 200 ml
• Water - 100 ml
• Sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons
• For chocolate cream:
• Chocolate black bitter - 150 g
• Butter - 50 g
• Sour cream - 150 g
• Powdered sugar - 8 tbsp. spoons
• Salt - 1/3 teaspoon
• For decoration (optional):
• Chocolate black bitter - 30 g
• Orange - 3 slices

Directions

1. In a tall bowl, beat eggs with sugar with a mixer (3-4 minutes).
2. Add sour cream and baking powder. Gradually add flour, mixing with a mixer until smooth.
3. Add cocoa to the dough. Cocoa is the most important ingredient, it is he who will give the cake a chocolate flavor.
4. Mix again with a mixer until smooth.
5. Cover the bottom of a baking dish (I have a diameter of 24 cm) with parchment.
6. Pour the dough into the mold.
7. We put the form with the dough in a cold or warm oven, then the cake will rise more evenly. Bake for 40-50 minutes at 180°C.
8. For impregnation, we make orange syrup.
9. Squeeze juice from oranges.
10. In a saucepan, combine squeezed orange juice, water and sugar.
11. Cook the syrup over low heat for 20-30 minutes. And we chill.
12. Cooking chocolate cream.
13. Melt dark dark chocolate with a high cocoa content and butter in a water bath.
14. Pour sour cream into a deep bowl, add powdered sugar and salt.
15. Add the melted chocolate-butter mixture to the bowl.
16. Mix with a mixer until smooth. The cream is ready.
17. Cool the cake, take it out of the mold.
18. Cut the cake lengthwise into two pieces.
19. Drizzle the bottom of the cake with orange syrup.
20. Lubricate with cream.
21. Cover with the second part of the cake, cut side up. Pour again with orange syrup and grease with cream.
22. Decorate the chocolate cake as you wish. In this case, coarsely chopped dark chocolate and orange slices.
23. I wish you bon appetit!