Cake "Perfection"

Cake "Perfection"

Ingredients

• Products for almond-citrus base:
• 1 egg
• 0.5 cup sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 100 gr. butter or margarine for baking with butter flavor,
• 1 teaspoon lemon or orange zest (grated or minced)
• 1 teaspoon of almond essence;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 dessert or tablespoon lemon juice
• 1.5 -1 and 3 / 4 cups of flour (look at the batch);
• For curd filler:
• 750 gr. soft creamy cottage cheese 5% fat,
• 2 eggs,
• 3 yolks,
• 200 ml. sour cream
• 1/4 cup sugar
• juice and zest (chopped) of 1 lemon
• 2 teaspoons rum essence
• 3 full tablespoons of flour
• on the tip of a knife - ground cinnamon;
• For glaze:
• 3 squirrels,
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• Baking dish: round - 28cm.

Directions

1. Grind the egg with sugar and vanilla sugar. Melt the butter in a micro, add to the eggs and grind until a creamy mousse.
2. By the way. The dough immediately delighted me with its quality, it literally sang in my hands. There was an idea to postpone the preparation of the cake for another day and do something like creme brulee. But these thoughts quickly dissipated and I continued. Further. Introduce all the flavors, extinguish the baking powder with lemon / orange juice, mix. Gradually add flour and knead the lightest, softest, most tender dough.
3. Line the form with parchment paper or grease with oil if you will serve the cake in this form. This time I did exactly that, baked in a ceramic form *, it is so elegant and just right for the festive feast. Put the dough on a little oiled paper or the bottom of the form. Spread the dough out, leaving a little edge. Prick with a fork. This technique allows the dough to bake calmly with exactly one layer and not rise in waves. Put in the freezer just at the time while the filler is being prepared. You can not put it if you are cool.
4. Prepare filler:
5. First of all, separate three eggs into yolks and whites. Grind two eggs and three yolks with sugar well, add sour cream and continue to rub with a wooden spoon. Introduce all the flavors according to the recipe, juice and lemon zest, mix. Now add flour, and lastly add soft cottage cheese in portions. Mix everything thoroughly. Remove the form with the base from the refrigerator and carefully lay the entire curd mass on top of the base. Smooth out. Turn on the oven at 190-200gr.S. Send the form to the oven and exactly after 5 minutes, transfer the temperature to 160g.C., bake for at least an hour. Check for readiness with a wooden skewer.
6. It's time for the frosting. Whisk the whites, with the gradual addition of sugar in a strong, stable foam. Take out the mold and carefully cover the top with glaze. Make beautiful twisted patterns with a spoon and put in the oven. Bake until a beautiful coffee color and until fully cooked. It took me another half an hour. The low optimum temperature allowed the cake to bake perfectly on all sides.
7. My God! If you saw this Divine beauty, you would understand me.
8. I will try to describe my feelings.
9. The cake turned out huge, just right for receiving guests. I assure you they will fall at your feet, thanking, and begging for the coveted recipe. And also the cake "Perfection" will be very useful for a full-fledged family holiday. The cake is tall, I didn’t measure it, but I see it by eye, at least 10 cm or more in height. Pretty heavy. Extraordinarily beautiful!
10. This cake is three-layered and all the layers are superbly clearly visible and amazingly combined with each other. The base is sunny. The filler is cream. Then comes a snow-white layer of strong elastic meringue and this picture ends with a juicy coffee top with pretty decorations.
11. And if you were preparing it for guests, then wait a bit and you will see with what impatience your guests will expect their portion.
12. It's not for nothing that I called this dessert perfection. It is cut without problems, only it is advisable to lower the knife into boiling water so that it warms up there, wipe it dry, and you can take a sample even after the oven.
13. Taste is a whole separate chapter. All layers, falling into your mouth, melt at the same moment, in the full sense of the word, without exaggeration, instantly dissolving, and you involuntarily begin to think about the next piece with lust. And the smell ... beckons, asks and calls. Such temptation, something inimitable.