Pinscher cake - a mind-blowingly delicious homemade dessert without any hassles

Pinscher cake - a mind-blowingly delicious homemade dessert without any hassles

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Pinscher cake is a nostalgic story from a carefree youth. Super porous chocolate shortcakes with sour cream, walnuts and endless mother's love. The recipe is very tasty, beautiful and affordable. And the main thing is that it is economical and works for everyone all the time.

There are many variations on the theme.

Everything can be divided into two types: cakes in the form of a slide or two cakes with a layer.

The base is certainly baked with sour cream and condensed milk. The cream is prepared in a simple but tasty way: sour cream and nuts. It happens that nuts and dried fruits are placed between the layers.

Varieties of Pinscher cake recipes

1. Bake two biscuits (traditional version): light and black. One serves as a base and is smeared with cream. If desired, lay out a layer of cherries, prunes, raisins, and nuts. Next, pieces of the second sponge cake (up to 2 cm in size) are dipped in cream and placed on the base in a heap. Everything is generously poured with creamy mixture and decorated with touches of chocolate glaze.

Delicious photos of Pinscher cake for inspiration

The shape is simply recognizable, so it cannot be confused with other desserts.

2. Prepare one tall chocolate sponge cake, which is divided into three parts: two thinner and one thicker. A narrow crust is the base. It is lubricated with cream. Thick - cut into pieces, dump them into cream, mix. Add fried nuts, dried fruits or cherries. Everything is placed on the base. Cover with a crust and press down. Drizzle with chocolate ganache and decorate with nuts.

Our grandmother has been preparing dessert in this particular version for many years. We present a detailed recipe with step-by-step photos of the extreme version of the Pinscher cake below. During the heyday of the Land of Soviets there were many achievements, but not enough delights. And sour cream cake was perceived as the pinnacle of desires and the limit of desires.

It looked so huge, it was covered in chocolate and seemed absolutely delicious!

History of the name of the curly pinscher cake

Some associate the name of the dessert with the breed of dog.

The rest are with professional chefs from England. The Pinchers ran their own confectionery shop and let guests try unique desserts made according to family recipes. One of their masterpieces is a chocolate cake with sour cream. People liked it so much that it became popular outside the UK. He took with him the appearance of his own parent and his last name; the fact is that the professional pastry chef was curly-haired, so they dubbed the dessert he invented as a curly-haired pinscher.

But most quickly the title came from English. words pinch - pinch off. To give a curly appearance to the curly pinscher cake, housewives, according to the recipe, pinch the cake and dip the resulting pieces in the sauce. Almost all technologies now advise cutting the base, but at first they simply tore it or pinched it.

The dessert is often decorated with countless touches of glaze. A huge number of curls and curls come out - what’s not curly? For such thin lines, a cornet or a file with a small hole in the corner is suitable.

Aspects and tricks of the Pinscher cake - step by step tips with comments

Base

Biscuit is not difficult for anyone. The only thing: soda cannot be quenched with vinegar. It is quenched in sour cream, which is added to the dough.

1. The batter mixture is thicker than pancake mix. You can create one cake, two or three: the choice is up to the hostess.
2. The play of colors will add zest to the dessert. Therefore, you can add cocoa to half the dough so that one cake (narrow) is baked light, and the second (thicker) is dark.
3. You can immediately pour the light dough, and then pour the chocolate dough over it. A zebra will come out. In cross-section, such blanks will look interesting.

Additives to the Pinscher cake recipe at home

• Often - nuts (walnuts). They are dried until the appropriate aroma appears in a dry frying pan, crushed in a mortar or rolling pin. Quarters are also acceptable. You just need to carefully check that there are no pieces of shell or partitions. This is especially important if the nuts were purchased already shelled.
• They also add prunes. It is perfectly washed, cut into pieces or strips. If dried, steam it. If dried, wash it in several waters. Read more about processing dried plums in the publication on stuffed prunes.

The appetizing photos of a curly pinscher cake with additives are very tempting.

• You can put any dried fruits that the hostess and her family like: raisins, dried apricots, dates, cranberries, cherries.
• There are recipes where pieces of new fruits and berries are used. The version with cherries is especially popular. This berry sounds absolutely breathtaking when combined with chocolate and milk cream. Famous are the Cherry Cake with Mascarpone and the Black Forest Cherry Cake.

Cream for homemade pinscher cake recipe

1. For impregnation, it is better to use high-fat sour cream; it can whip into a more tender sauce than low-fat sour cream.
2. If you use sweet sand, there is a risk of getting thin, sweet water. Therefore, it is better to use sweet powder. Combining cool, rich sour cream with sweet powder will give you that sure-fire cream.
3. Sour cream/cream must be fresh from the refrigerator. Then you can whip it into a fluffy, airy cream at home. The pinscher cake will turn out to be a success with such a light impregnation.
4. Homemade sour cream works, but you need to be careful with it: it quickly breaks down and turns into oil.
5. There are cream options with condensed milk and sour cream. They have a right to exist, but there is already a mega-sweet story here.
6. Butter creams are not suitable because they will not saturate the pieces.
7. Before placing the biscuit slices into the cake, they can be soaked in alcoholic syrup, but the traditional version does not involve such tricks. You can pour syrup over the base.

How to create thick sour cream for a curly pinscher cake recipe step by step

1. Place watery sour cream in cheesecloth;
2. Tie in a knot;
3. Suspend the system over a flat dish. Let it sit in the refrigerator for 8 hours (let’s leave it overnight (that is, in the dark) );
4. The liquid will drain, and a compacted sour cream base for a thick cream will remain in the gauze.

Options for assembling a curly pinscher cake

1. A narrow light-colored shortcake is coated with cream, nuts and prunes are laid out. Pieces of dark sponge cake are dipped in cream and mixed with additives in the form of a slide. Drizzle with remaining sauce and glaze.

2. Place a black shortcake on a dish, put cream on it, soaked pieces of light and dark cake mixed with the freshest fruits/berries, pour over the cream and decorate with chocolate touches.

3. At the bottom - chocolate shortcake, cream, sponge cake fragments soaked in sauce, nuts, whole shortcake and glaze.

Luxurious pinscher cake - proven recipe with step-by-step photos

Homemade cooking is good because it has been tested by more than one generation of cooks. This means that it will certainly work out and the products will not be wasted in vain. The dessert comes out huge and languid. You can treat about twelve guests. The biscuit is fragrant, with clearly defined pores, of the highest quality. During the soaking process, they are filled with sauce, and the dish acquires amazing juiciness.

For those who don't like to read - a short video of the process

Pinscher cake

Publication date: June 1, 2012
Creator: Lena Kokareva

Ingredients:
For the dough: Sour cream – 200 gr.
Condensed milk - 1/2 can.
Sugar – 1/2 cup.
Cocoa – 3 tbsp.
Flour – 1.5 cups.
Testicles – 3 pcs.
Soda – 2 tsp.
Vinegar – 2 tbsp.
For cream: Sour cream 25% – 800 gr.
Sugar – 1 tbsp.
For the glaze: Sour cream – 3 tbsp.
Sugar – 3 tbsp.
Cocoa – 2 tbsp.
Butter – 20 gr.

Recipe:
1. Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer.
2. Add half a can of condensed milk, sour cream and soda dissolved in vinegar to the beaten eggs.
3. Add flour.
4. Pour all the dough into a large mold and bake for 15-20 minutes at 200 degrees.
5. Beat sour cream with sugar until completely dissolved.
6. When the biscuit is ready, cut out a circle of suitable diameter.
7. Cut the remaining sponge cake into cubes with a side of 1-2 cm.
8. Pour sour cream over the prepared shortcake.
9. Then, dipping the cubes in sour cream, place them on the shortbread, forming a mound.
10. Pour the remaining sour cream on top.
11. Mix all the ingredients for the glaze, put on fire, cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.
12. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.

Pinscher cake

Now is a very good holiday - Children's Day. I really want to amuse my daughter. What do kids love most? It's over sweets! Cake! Literally, I'll bake a cake! "Pincher"! This is one of our family's favorite cakes. We tried it for the first time at a party, but I couldn’t find out the recipe - because... it was custom made. I tried many options, but the result didn’t suit me - sometimes it came out not soaked, sometimes the dough wasn’t right, something was always missing. Through trial and error, I came up with a recipe that suited me in every way. I am sharing it with you.

To make the Pinscher Cake you will need:

For the test:

Sour cream - 200 gr;

Condensed milk - 1/2 can;

Sugar - 1/2 cup;

Flour - 1.5 cups;

For cream:

Sour cream 25% - 800 gr;

For the glaze:

Sour cream - 3 tbsp;

Butter - 20 gr.

Recipe for making Pinscher Cake:

1. Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer.

2. Add half a can of condensed milk, sour cream and soda dissolved in vinegar to the beaten eggs. Then add the seeded cocoa so that there are no lumps.

3. Add flour. Mix everything thoroughly.

4. Pour all the dough into a large mold and bake for 15-20 minutes at 200 degrees.

5. Beat sour cream with sugar until completely dissolved. This will be the cream for the cake.

6. When the biscuit is ready, cut out a circle of suitable diameter. If the biscuit has risen perfectly, it would be better to cut it in half lengthwise.

7. Cut the remaining sponge cake into cubes with a side of 1-2 cm.

8. Pour sour cream over the prepared shortbread.

9. Then, dipping the cubes in sour cream, place them on the shortbread, forming a mound.

I added cherries between the pieces. You can add crushed walnuts if you like their taste. The cherry in the finished and soaked pinscher cake gives a pleasant, special sourness. That's why I like to add cherries specifically.

10. Pour the remaining sour cream on top.

11. Mix all the ingredients for the glaze, put on fire, cook until the sugar is completely dissolved. Pour glaze over the top of the finished cake.

12. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. And absolutely, the longer it sits, the tastier it becomes.

Bon appetit!

Try making a delicious honey cake or strawberry curd cake. Any one of them will decorate a festive table.

And your guests will simply go into ecstasy with the Italian dessert Tiramisu!

20 explanations for the post “Pincher Cake”

very similar to “Count Ruins”, only I make it without condensed milk and the development is naturally a little different, we will definitely try this cake, I’m already looking forward to how delicious it is :)

Very tasty.
We ordered this for my son’s birthday, but I didn’t remember the name. I saw the picture and immediately figured it out.
I ran for condensed milk! I'll post what happened

It turned out great, thank you, Alyonushka!
It’s correct that you wrote that you need to use 25% sour cream for the cream.
I only had 10%, I was too lazy to run to the store again - the cream came out a bit runny, but still very tasty! Mine devoured everything in 1 evening

First time on the website, and there is so much delicious stuff here!
I will be a regular guest. I saw the Pincher and really wanted to try it out. This cake was baked by my mother, the recipe is naturally different. I'll try it your way and report back later.

but for some reason my dough didn’t rise, it came out flat (like a pancake approximately) although I did everything according to the recipe and also baked at 200 degrees... but it still turned out delicious :) Maybe the creator will give a hint what’s wrong, I’d like to work on the mistakes

Have a nice day, Katya.
There may be several circumstances:
1. The eggs are not beaten well enough.
2. Open the oven during baking.
3. The shortbread was pulled out of the mold while it was hot - you need to let it cool.
4. We added a lot of flour, the dough mixture should be like the photo.
And baking is absolutely an art :) I also didn’t succeed in many things, but everything comes with practice. Bake more often and everything will work out!

How to make a Curly Pinscher (Curly Lad) cake according to a step-by-step recipe with photos

The hardest part about making this cake is waiting for it to sit. At the same time, the pangs of anticipation also torment all household members, who need to be constantly driven away from the refrigerator and persuaded that there are only 2-3 hours left until the sacred moment. In addition, I do not recommend preparing it if you do not have such harsh eaters as children or men with a sweet tooth. Otherwise, you are at great risk: after trying the first piece, it will be very difficult to slow down.

If my warnings don’t work for you, let’s make the Curly Lad (pinscher) cake, the recipe for which perfectly combines a sponge cake with condensed milk and cocoa powder, sour cream, dried fruits, nuts and chocolate glaze.

Curly Pinscher Cake

Ingredients

Choose thicker sour cream in the amount of 1 kg created for cream, with a fat content of at least 25%. You can put the least fatty sour cream in the dough. Instead of raisins, you can use dried apricots.

Step-by-step production

1. Drive 3 eggs into a deep bowl, add 180 g of regular sugar and 10 g of vanilla sugar. Beat with a mixer until the sugar is completely dissolved and a large snow-white foam is obtained.
   
2. Pour 200 ml of condensed milk, add 200 g of sour cream and beat thoroughly with a mixer.
   
3. In a separate bowl, mix 250 g of sifted flour with 5 g of baking powder and pour this mixture into the main mass.
   
4. Sift 20 g of cocoa powder into a bowl and mix all ingredients with a mixer at low speed until smooth.
   
5. Line the bottom of a round baking pan with parchment paper. Generously grease the parchment and sides of the pan with 10 ml of vegetable oil.

Video recipe

In this video you can see how all the components of the Curly Pinscher are prepared and how the cake in the form of a cap is assembled, and also appreciate the simplicity of the recipe.

How and with what to serve

When the Pincher has been properly infused in the cold, and the sour cream has soaked the cake and made it whole, you can cut it into pieces solemnly in front of the guests. Let it stand on the formal table for some time so that everyone can receive aesthetic pleasure, confirming that your efforts to decorate it were not in vain. It goes perfectly with black tea and coffee .

Making Tips

• It is better not to open the oven door while the cake is baking. If the oven bakes unevenly and the pan needs to be turned the other way, do it quickly and no earlier than 20-25 minutes from the start of baking.
• Do not remove the cake from the oven immediately after baking, let it cool slightly.
• It is better to warm all the ingredients of the dough to room temperature, so they will mix and beat better.

• If the sour cream for the cream is not thick enough, it must be placed in a sieve lined with 3-4 layers of gauze and left overnight (that is, in the dark) in a cold place. The whey will drain and the sour cream will thicken.
• The sour cream for the cream must be cool; before making it, it must be kept in the refrigerator for several hours. Then it will perfectly whip into a fluffy cream.
• If you use very fatty market sour cream, beat it only when chilled and not for long, otherwise it will separate.

Other manufacturing options

If you don’t have dried fruits, but have a jar of canned pineapples or a few frozen cherries, check out the Pancho cake recipe; the process for making it is almost identical in every way to the Curly Pinscher. For those who love unusual cakes and sour cream, Rotten Stump is exactly what you need. A masterpiece from German confectioners, Milk Girl will appeal to those who love the combination of the most delicate sponge cake and butter cream. Huge chocolate connoisseurs will probably like the Dark Prince - a very chocolate cake.

I was glad to share my experience of making a Curly Pinscher cake. I hope it brightened your holiday and didn’t cause any problems when making the recipe.

Pinscher cake with cherries

Pinscher cake with cherries

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Tomato juice

Sour cream cake

Girls, there are many similar recipes, but try mine. Very playful and very easy to make. Maybe moderate for a holiday, but just right for a tea party for your beloved family.
For my taste it is very sweet.
In fact, it does not require any time for soaking.

Ingredients

general information

Complexity

Easy

Step-by-step recipe with photos

Add slaked soda to flour. Mix eggs with sweet sand. Add cocoa, sour cream, condensed milk. While stirring, pour the prepared mixture into the flour. The mixture looks like thick sour cream.

Pour half of the dough into a round mold (the thickness of the crust is 1-2 cm). Bake in a preheated oven for 15 minutes.

Pour the second half of the dough onto a baking sheet. Bake for 5-7 minutes.

Grease the round cake with cream by beating the sour cream and sweet sand with a spoon or mixer at low speed. Top with cherries.

Cut the second shortbread into cubes measuring 2.5×2.5×2.5 cm or 3x3x3 cm. Dip the cubes into cream and place them on the round shortbread in a heap, pouring cream into the spaces and sprinkling with nuts.

Decorate the top of the cake with icing.

Making glaze: mix sour cream, cocoa and sweet sand. Cook over low heat for about 15 minutes, stirring continuously. Then add butter and cook for 3-4 minutes. Cool the glaze.

Before consumption, the cake should be soaked for several hours.

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