Tasty Cake "Lady's whim"

Amazingly tasty and very delicate cake "Lady's Caprice" is a very simple sour cream with poppy seeds, raisins, nuts and chocolate cakes.

Ingredients

• For test:
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Sugar - 350 g
• Flour - 400 g
• Sour cream (20-25%) - 500 ml
• Soda - 1.5 tsp
• Vinegar (9%) or lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.
• Dough additives:
• Chopped walnuts - 100 g
• Raisins (or dried apricots, or cranberries) - 100 g
• Poppy - 100 g
• Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. l.
• For sour cream:
• Sour cream (not less than 35%) - 1 l
• Powdered sugar - 250 g
• Vanilla sugar - 10 g
• For decoration:
• Chocolate - 100 g
• Walnuts - 100-150 g
• Poppy - 20 g

Directions

1. Prepare the raisins - wash them well and dry them.
2. Break the eggs into a large bowl, add sugar, vanilla sugar little by little.
3. Beat with a mixer for about 3-4 minutes, until light and fluffy.
4. Add sour cream and mix well.
5. Quench soda with vinegar or lemon juice. Add to egg mixture and stir again until smooth.
6. Gradually, in several steps, add the pre-sifted flour and mix until smooth.
7. The consistency of the dough should resemble thick sour cream.
8. Using four bowls, divide the finished dough into equal parts with a tablespoon.
9. Add washed and dried raisins to one part, chopped walnuts to the other, pre-sifted cocoa to the third, and poppy seeds to the last part.
10. Mix each part of the dough thoroughly until smooth.
11. Cover a baking dish with a diameter of 24 cm with baking paper, pour out the dough, smooth it well and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes, until a dry match.
12. If the match is dry, then the cakes are ready, the main thing is not to dry the cakes.
13. Thus, bake a cake with poppy seeds, nuts and cocoa. Cool the finished cakes completely.
14. Prepare sour cream. Take thick non-sour sour cream, the best option is homemade. The higher the fat content of sour cream, the thicker and more tasty the sour cream will be. If you're not sure the sour cream will whip, you can add a sour cream thickener just in case.
15. Add icing sugar, vanilla sugar to sour cream and beat with a mixer until light, fluffy and thick. Whip the cream for a short time, as soon as it begins to thicken, stop whipping after a minute or two.
16. Please note that if the sour cream is very oily, you can’t beat for a long time, if you beat it too much, it can turn into butter!
17. Put the chocolate cake on the cake dish first and cover it with cream.
18. Top - cake with raisins, generously smear with cream.
19. Lay out the poppy seed cake, cover with a layer of cream.
20. Lay out the nut crust.
21. Spread the top and sides of the cake with the remaining sour cream.
22. If desired, the cake can be decorated with chocolate chips, chopped walnuts, poppy seeds.
23. Sprinkle the sides of the cake generously with chopped walnuts.
24. Send the finished cake to the refrigerator for 6-8 hours, and best of all at night, then the cakes will be well saturated, become very soft and tender.
25. Cake "Lady's whim" is ready.