Honey Walnut Cake

Steps

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  1. Beat 4 large eggs in a deep bowl, add sugar.
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  2. Whip the mass into a soft mousse with an electric mixer at maximum speed for 10 minutes to make it lighter and bigger in volume.
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  3. Add brandy and liquid honey in the resulting mixture. Combine baking soda with nine percent vinegar and add it to the whipped eggs with sugar.
• 4. Stir the mixture with a mixer, all the ingredients should be finely combined with each other.
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  5. Sift the flour, add it to the dough by parts.
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  6. Put nuts in a bag and crush them with a rolling pin or crumble with the help of a blender. Enter 100 grams of the nuts to the dough.
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  7. Thoroughly mix honey nut dough with a silicone spatula, making uniform texture. Coat an ovenproof baking pan with a diameter of 20 cm with butter. Lay the bottom of the bakeware with parchment. Gently pour the half of the dough into the prepared pan.
• 8. Put it in a hot oven, and bake at 175 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Put the finished cake on the grill and leave it until cool.
• 9. Then pour the remaining half of honey-dough in the baking pan and bake the second cake. Also let it cool completely.
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  10. Cook the cream for cake. Whip the pre-softened butter into a soft mousse with a mixer. Continuing to whip, introduce boiled condensed milk by parts.
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  11. When the butter is connected with condensed milk, shift a portion of the cream in a separate bowl (to decorate the top and sides of cake). Add the second half of the crushed walnuts to the second half.
• 12. Mix the cream until smooth.
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  13. Cut each cake lengthways into halves. In the result you should get 4 equal to the thickness airy cakes.
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  14. Prepare the impregnation. Brew black coffee, add sugar. Pour cognac int the cooled coffee and mix. Soak each cake with the mixture.
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  15. Apply one-third of the cream with nuts on the cake, smooth out the layer.
• 16. Alternating between soaked cakes and cream with condensed milk and nuts, assemble the cake. Coat the top and sides of the cakes with remaining frosting without nuts with a cooking spatula. Decorate the «Mans ideal» with pretzels, coffee grains, chocolate and nuts.
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  17. Let the cake brew in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours. Bon appetit!