Tasty Cake "Turtle"

In order for the Turtle Cake to taste perfect, you need to take care of two things. First, prepare a good biscuit dough. Secondly, buy good, thick and non-acidic sour cream. Then it's up to the small - bake and enjoy.

Ingredients

• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Flour - 60 g
• Ground walnuts - 100 g (50 g for dough and 50 for decoration)
• Sugar - 150 g
• Vanillin - on the tip of a knife
• Sour cream - 400 g
• Condensed milk - 300 g
• Pitted prunes - 120 g
• Chocolate - 100 g

Directions

1. You need to start with biscuit blanks for the cake. To do this, prepare the air dough.
2. With jewelry precision, separate the whites from the yolks in two different bowls.
3. Pour half the sugar, vanilla into the yolks. Beat with a mixer or whisk until they have approximately doubled in size and are white.
4. Start beating egg whites at low speed, gradually increasing the speed. As soon as the mass becomes thick and strong, add sugar in a thin stream, continuing to beat. You can check the quality of whipped egg whites by gently turning the bowl upside down. If the mass does not fall out, then the proteins are beaten perfectly.
5. Transfer the third part of the proteins to the yolks. With a spatula or spoon, gently mix with upward movements from the bottom up.
6. Add nuts and sifted flour to the yolk mass. Also mix gently.
7. Combine the protein and yolk masses, mixing the dough with the usual movements. But remember that you do not need to do this for a long time so that the airy dough does not fall off.
8. Spread the biscuit dough with a teaspoon on a baking sheet covered with parchment, at a distance of 3-4 cm from each other. Bake in the oven at a moderate temperature (150-160 degrees) for about 15 minutes.
9. While the biscuit blanks are cooling, proceed to the preparation of the cream.
10. While whipping sour cream, pour in the condensed milk in a thin stream. If the cream is watery, you can add a thickener.
11. Finely chop the prunes and add them to the cream. Stir.
12. Start collecting the cake. To do this, cover a large bowl with cling film. Dip the semi-finished biscuits in the cream and put them in a bowl, smearing the cream even thickly on top.
13. Leave the cake in the bowl for several hours in the cold, let it soak.
14. Then carefully invert the contents of the bowl onto a serving platter. Remove the film from the cake.
15. Garnish with melted chocolate and ground nuts. If you want to make the image of a turtle, then attach the paws and head from pre-set aside biscuits. Paint the shell with caramel, icing or buttercream.