The lightness of meringues, the lightness of protein cream and the tenderness of creamy in combination with the uneven, high-looking delicacies - all this is a cake Count ruins. Once this dessert was in short supply, and everyone wanted to get it for a holiday. Nowadays, you can buy it in many stores, but you won’t get such a taste as a home-made cake. Therefore, we suggest you prepare your own dessert by choosing any of the best options offered.

A small excursion into the history of dessert

In the 17th century, a Swiss confectioner named Gasparini constantly experimented with desserts in a Swiss town. One day, whipping squirrels, he became carried away, and the mass became thick foam. He decided to try baking it - put it in the form of circles on a baking sheet and dried it. So there were meringues. The name of the delicacy was in honor of the city in which it was born.

And our dessert was invented not so long ago, during the Soviet Union. Rumor has it that Kiev cake was used as the basis, and the name was taken from Gaidar's story. After all, the treat is really smashed by the ruins - a bunch of meringues laid out, covered with cream and decorated with stripes of glaze.

Cake "Count ruins" - a classic recipe with sour cream

Over the years, there have been many options for making this treat. But for many, this option remains the most delicious.

Ingredients:

  • soda - 2 tsp slaked;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • oil;
  • sour cream - 210 g;
  • cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • flour - 225 g;
  • sugar - 180 g.

Cream:

  • sour cream - 520 g thick;
  • sugar - 210 g;
  • vanillin.

Glaze:

  • butter - 110 g;
  • cocoa - 5 tbsp. spoons;
  • sour cream - 5 tbsp. spoons;
  • sugar - 5 tbsp. spoons.

Cooking:

  1. Pour eggs into sour cream, pour sugar and beat.Add flour, beat again, stir in soda and insist for half an hour.
  2. Pour the third part into a mold and bake. It takes a quarter of an hour and an oven mode of 180ºC.
  3. Pour cocoa into the remaining mass, beat and half pour into the mold. Bake. In time, you will need as much as for white cake.
  4. Bake the remaining dough in the same form.
  5. Beat sour cream. Sprinkle with sugar. Stir in vanillin. Insist in the refrigerator for half an hour.
  6. Chop the dark cakes. You can just break them with your hands.
  7. Place the white cake on a dish and coat with cream. Dip the chopped pieces into a cream and spread with a mountain on a white biscuit. Pour the remaining cream for dessert.
  8. Mix the ingredients for the glaze and boil - should get a homogeneous tepid mass. Boil is not worth it.

It remains to fill in the dainty with the resulting mixture and insist for a day.

Cooking option with meringues

For count ruins with meringues will have to prepare two creams. This will enhance the taste and make the cake more original.

Ingredients:

  • sugar - 2 cups;
  • icing sugar - 0.5 cups;
  • salt;
  • flour - 160 g;
  • protein - 2 pcs. for cream;
  • chocolate bar - 50 g;
  • soda - 1 tsp slaked;
  • walnut - 0.5 cups;
  • egg - 5 pcs.;
  • concentrated milk - a can;
  • protein - 3 pcs. for meringues;
  • condensed milk - a can of boiled;
  • butter - 210 g softened.

Cooking:

  1. Combine the egg with half the norm of sugar, add soda and mix. Pour flour and beat.
  2. Move to a mold and bake. It will take half an hour and the regime of the oven 180ºС.
  3. To make meringue, you need to beat the remaining sugar with proteins. The mass will be dense and snow-white. Spread parchment paper, take a spoon (if there is, then a confectionery syringe is better) and place blanks on it. Bake an hour using the temperature of the oven 100ºС.
  4. Now take the squirrels for the cream, beat and pour the powder. Grind nuts and mix with mass.
  5. Throw the condensed milk into the oil and beat - a homogeneous mass is obtained. Pour concentrated milk, mix - the second cream is ready.
  6. Cut the cake in half. Place one part on a dish, coat with butter cream and cover with a biscuit. Lubricate it with the same cream. Dip the bezeshki in a white cream and spread it on a cake.
  7. Melt the chocolate and pour the dessert.

Count ruins with sour cream and condensed milk

Such a cake can be done by any housewife. He will surely bring joy to all the sweet tooth.

Ingredients:

  • egg - 4 pcs.;
  • salt;
  • soda - 1 tsp slaked;
  • flour - 460 g;
  • vanillin - 1 sachet;
  • cocoa - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • chocolate bar - 1 bar;
  • condensed milk - a can;
  • sugar - 210 g;

Cream:

  • powder - 1.5 cups of sugar;
  • sour cream - 850 g fat;
  • pineapples in pieces - a jar;
  • condensed milk - a can of boiled.

Cooking:

  1. Heat the oven (180ºС required).
  2. Mix the yolks with half the granulated sugar, grind and pour the condensed milk. Add vanilla, salt, pour soda with flour. Beat everything up again.
  3. Beat the second part of sugar with proteins (you need a dense foam) and combine with the first mass. Half fill in the form and send to bake.
  4. In the second part, pour cocoa and also beat.
  5. When the white cake is ready, send the second dark mass to bake.
  6. Cut the white part horizontally, and smash the dark.
  7. Beat sour cream, add powder and put condensed milk out of a can. Beat.
  8. Lubricate the cream with a white biscuit. Cover with the second part and grease it with cream too. Dip the chocolate pieces into a creamy mass and spread out a slide. Overlap each layer with pineapples.
  9. Melt the chocolate and pour the treat.

It is better to cook a sponge cake for dessert in advance and let it dry. Then, when impregnated with cream, it will not greatly soften.

How to make prune dessert?

A delicious dessert that requires a minimum of products and is prepared very quickly. With this delicacy you can not only please your relatives with a cup of tea, but also decorate the holiday table.

Ingredients:

  • egg - 8 pcs.;
  • walnut - 120 g of walnut;
  • prunes - 200 g;
  • sugar - 410 g;
  • condensed milk - 120 ml;
  • butter - 210 g

Cooking:

  1. Beat the squirrels.When a stable mass is obtained, add sugar. Beat. The whole process will take about seven minutes.
  2. Arrange parchments on parchment. You can use a spoon or pastry syringe. Bake for two hours at 100ºС. Then switch the oven to 120ºС and stand for another half hour. Cool.
  3. Chop the prunes, send to a meat grinder, put nuts into the appliance and twist.
  4. Beat butter, add condensed milk and beat. Sprinkle with nut mixture. Mix.
  5. Grease a plate with cream. Distribute the meringues. To miss. Repeat in layers.
  6. Ready dessert can be poured with melted chocolate.

Cooking in a slow cooker

You can cook a delicious cake in a slow cooker. The dessert will turn out beautiful and original.

Ingredients:

  • flour - 310 g;
  • vanillin;
  • sugar - 210 g;
  • soda - 1.5 tsp slaked;
  • milk - 240 ml;
  • boiling water - 240 ml;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • cocoa - 7 tbsp. spoons;
  • vegetable oil - 120 ml.

Cream:

  • sour cream - 270 ml;
  • granulated sugar - 120 g.

Glaze:

  • butter - 55 g butter;
  • milk - 55 ml;
  • cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons.

Cooking:

  1. Pour the eggs with sugar. Beat. Pour in milk, then butter. Mix.
  2. Add to the mass of cocoa and soda, pour flour. Beat, pour boiling water and mix again.
  3. Pour the mass into the bowl, set the mode (“baking” is needed), and turn on the timer for an hour.
  4. Do not open the lid after the signal. Leave on for another quarter of an hour.
  5. Mix sugar with sour cream. Beat.
  6. Cut the cake along. Lubricate the lower part with cream, and cut the upper into pieces. Dip each of them in a cream and place in the form of a slide on the first biscuit. Pour the rest of the cream on top of the dessert.
  7. Mix and warm the ingredients for the glaze. Water the treat.

With sour cream and chocolate

If you are limited in finances, and you want to please yourself with a delicious dessert, then this cooking variation will satisfy all your wishes.

Ingredients:

  • cocoa - 4 tbsp. spoons;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • thickener for sour cream;
  • sour cream - 260 ml;
  • vanillin in cream;
  • sugar - 220 g;
  • sugar - 310 g for cream;
  • flour - 310 g;
  • sour cream - 1000 ml for cream;
  • soda - 0.5 tsp slaked.

Glaze:

  • butter - 45 g butter;
  • sour cream - 6 tbsp. spoons;
  • cocoa - 6 tbsp. spoons;
  • sugar - 6 tbsp. spoons;

Cooking:

  1. Beat eggs. Add sugar to the mixture and beat. Pour in sour cream, add flour and beat again. Connect with soda.
  2. Pour half the mass into a mold and send to bake. It will take half an hour and a regime of 180ºС.
  3. Pour cocoa into the remaining mass and beat. When the first biscuit is ready, pour the second dough into the same form and bake.
  4. Whip cream sour cream, vanilla, thickener and sugar rate for cream.
  5. Cut the white biscuit along, spread with cream and fold. Break the second biscuit. Dip in sour cream and spread with the mountain on a white cake.
  6. Mix and glaze the ingredients. A homogeneous, beautiful mass is needed. Pour it with dessert.

With boiled condensed milk and cookies

If you have nostalgia for your childhood and want to plunge into memories, then prepare the dessert that our grandmothers treated us to during the Soviet Union.

Ingredients:

  • butter - 200 g softened;
  • protein - 8 pcs.;
  • cookies - 230 g sugar;
  • powdered sugar - 2 cups;
  • walnut - a mug of walnuts;
  • condensed milk - a can of boiled.

Cooking:

  1. Turn on the preheat oven.
  2. Beat the squirrels, pour the powder into the resulting foam. Beat.
  3. Put bezeshki on a baking sheet. Use a spoon for this. Bake for two hours at 150ºС.
  4. Chop nuts. Beat butter, add condensed milk and beat again. Combine with nuts and stir.
  5. Break the cookies and lay out a layer. Dip the meringue in the cream. Lay out the next layer. Sprinkle with cookies. Spread bezeshiki with cream again. Repeat the process until the products run out. It should be a slide.
  6. Sprinkle treat with crumbs from cookies.

With custard

Not everyone can cook meringues on their own. In this case, a crispy treat can be purchased at the store, thereby reducing the time for making dessert.

Ingredients:

  • starch - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
  • meringue - 420 g;
  • cognac - 15 ml;
  • egg - 5 pcs.;
  • walnut - 110 g of walnut;
  • sugar - 150 g;
  • chocolate - 110 g;
  • milk - 460 ml;
  • butter - 420 g;
  • flour - 2 tbsp. spoons.

Cooking:

  1. Beat eggs. Sprinkle with sugar. Beat. Add starch. Mix. Pour into milk (100 ml). Combine with flour. Beat.
  2. Boil the milk that remains, and pour the egg mixture into it. Stir constantly during this process. Boil - the mass should become thick.
  3. Cool, add oil and beat. Pour cognac and mix.
  4. Dip the meringue into the resulting mass, place on a plate and lay out a slide. Pour the rest of the cream.
  5. Grate the chocolate. Grind nuts. Sprinkle with dessert.

Sponge cake

Please yourself with biscuit baking by preparing a simple cake.

Ingredients:

  • flour - 310 g;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
  • sugar - 210 g;
  • chocolate bar - 150 g;
  • soda - 1 tsp slaked;
  • sour cream - 200 ml.

Cream:

  • sugar - 1.5 cups;
  • sour cream - 1000 ml thick;
  • vanillin.

Cooking:

  1. Beat eggs, sprinkle with sugar, add soda, pour sour cream and beat everything. Combine with flour and beat again.
  2. Pour cocoa in half. Bake two cakes. Oven mode required 180ºС. Time is half an hour.
  3. Whip the ingredients for the cream.
  4. Finished chopped or chopped cakes. Each piece individually dipped in cream and put in the form of a slide.
  5. Melt the chocolate bar and pour the dessert.

How to decorate and serve dessert beautifully?

The most common option is the formation of a cake in the form of a slide, which is poured with chocolate icing.

If you want to make the cake more original, then you can choose the following products for decoration:

  • Coconut flakes. It is sold in different colors. Therefore, you can make a treat bright and colorful.
  • A sprinkle of grated dark chocolate looks beautiful.
  • Cover the dessert with dark icing, and top with icing sugar.
  • Any pastries take a unique look when decorated with fruits and berries.
  • Any kind of nuts can transform the appearance of the cake. You can sprinkle crushed or whole.
  • Candy and poppy decorations look beautiful and festive.
  • If you have time, you can make jewelry made of marzipan or mastic.