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In Russian, Tort Smetannik means a cake with sour cream. This layered Russian cake is a Super Moist Sour Cream Cake that’s incredibly moist and tender from the sour cream ingredient in both the cake layers and frosting!
This easy Russian cake is made with only 3 ingredients and then filled with a delicious cream made of sour cream, sugar, and lemon juice. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch springform pan. Combine eggs and 1 cup sugar in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer for 5 minutes until mixture is smooth and thick.
How do you make Homemade Sour Cream (Smetana)? Smetana means sour cream, in Russian. To make it at home from scratch you’ll need buttermilk (kefir) and heavy whipping cream (slevka). Mix 1 liter of cream and a heaping 3/4 cup of thick buttermilk (or natural yogurt). Leave at room temperature for at least 8 hours (up to 24 hours) until thick.
Sour cream works as a syrup to these chocolate and basic cake layers! Condensed milk and sour cream are staple ingredients in most baking recipes for Russians and Ukrainian’s. Fact is if you tried a Russian cake before it’s likely to have condensed milk in the frosting or sour cream.
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