Cake from cakes - general principles and methods of preparation
You can bake cake cakes yourself - there is nothing easier than mixing the ingredients and sending them to the oven or slow cooker, for this you need to spend not so much time. But if you are a business woman who is rushing between work and home, or just busy with different things, and still want to feed your homemade sweet tooth with a delicious dessert - do not be discouraged, you can quickly make real masterpieces from ready-made cakes! After all, cake is, first of all, cream and decoration. The basic principle for making puff cake is cakes, impregnation and cream. You can use any impregnation, the main thing is to give the sponge cake a chance to soak as best as possible so that it becomes juicy and tender.
Shortcake Cake - Product Preparation
Cake cakes are different. The simplest ones are waffle, they are good in that they have a longer shelf life than others. They are sold in various forms, as well as in tartlets for making cakes. Sponge cakes are of several types - light (for example, sour cream) and dark (chocolate). Cakes for "Napoleon" can be used not only for making sweet cakes, but also for meat, mushroom or fish pies. As a rule, manufacturers provide several recipes in the kit, you can use them, or turn on your own imagination. In any case, the layer cake made of shortcakes is delicious and festive.
Cake cake - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Marmalade Leather Sponge Cake
This recipe involves self-baking biscuit cakes according to the simplest recipe. Light sponge cake and tender souffle - you will get a wonderful cake made of lemonade cakes, which can be served on the festive table or as a dessert for a family dinner.
Ingredients: Sponge cake: sugar (1.5 cups), lemonade (1 cup, any one will do), vanilla sugar (1 packet), vegetable oil (1 cup), flour (3 cups), biscuit baking powder (10 grams).
Souffle: sour cream (600 g), marmalade (100 g), gelatin (2 tbsp), icing sugar (1 packet).
Impregnation: any syrup 100 grams. Decoration: 1-2 pieces kiwi, jelly for filling the cake.
Cooking method
Mix sugar and eggs, add vanilla sugar and begin to whisk. Pour in vegetable oil and lemonade, fill in flour and baking powder and mix everything with a mixer so that the dough turns out to be liquid, like sour cream. It is best of course to bake in a slow cooker, 65 minutes is enough. After the signal, add another 65 minutes. Leave to cool for 20 minutes, and then turn over to the dish and leave to cool until completely cooled. If you use an oven, bake a biscuit for 25-30 minutes, setting the temperature to 180 degrees, and let stand for another 20 minutes. Cut the biscuit into 4 parts. Separately, we dilute gelatin in half a glass of warm water, it should swell within an hour.
Marmalade cut into small cubes. We spread the bottom of the form with parchment or cellophane, so that it is easier to get a cake. Sour cream with sugar or sugar until completely dissolved. The gelatin is finally dissolved in a water bath, mixed with sour cream, whisk. Since the souffle hardens very quickly, you need to collect the cake without wasting time. So, cake, syrup, souffle, marmalade, souffle - the sequence is defined. Press the cake so that there are no voids, and continue to work until the cake ends. On the top layer of the souffle we spread beautifully slices of kiwi. The cake will be filled with such a mixture - gelatin, two tablespoons of sugar and 100 grams of boiled water. First cover the kiwi, and then the whole cake. Beautiful, appetizing, and, no doubt - very tasty!
Recipe 2: Cake made of biscuit cakes with sour cream and curd cream
Any housewife, even the most inexperienced, will be able to bring down cream from sour cream with a mixer and coat the cakes. Purchased cakes, perhaps, are inferior in taste to fresh homemade cakes, however, they have many other advantages - first of all, time is saved, and lazy people do less to wash dishes. So, we form a cake for lazy people - we coat the cakes with cream and lay them with something tasty - for example, marmalade.
Ingredients: 3 ready-made biscuit cakes (1 package is obtained), - 1 package, butter (200 g), curd vanilla curds (2 pcs), condensed milk (1 can), dried apricots (50 grams), prunes (50 gr), fruit nuts or marmalade for decoration.
Cooking method
Cooking the cream: beat the butter and curd cheese with a mixer until smooth, add the condensed milk and beat again. Finely chop the dried apricots and raisins. Separate 2/3 of the cream and add dried apricots and raisins, lubricate the lower and middle crusts. Coat the sides of the cake with the rest, decorate with marmalade berries (for example, "Frutella") or nuts. Leave for impregnation for at least 2-3 hours. It turns out a gentle, almost weightless biscuit, melting in the mouth with snow cream cheese. He will melt the heart of everyone who eats at least a piece.
Recipe 3: Wafer Cake Cake with Condensed Milk
This is the easiest recipe. Even sixth graders will be able to make waffle cake. As a rule, this is the first thing teenagers begin to hone their culinary talents on. The biggest gourmets can bake wafer cakes on their own using a waffle iron, but in this recipe we use the usual store ones. They are sold in various forms. The cake "Two Hearts" based on hearts-cakes looks original.
Ingredients: wafer cakes for a heart-shaped base, condensed milk (1 can), butter (200 grams), marmalade, chocolate, lemon juice (1 spoon), colored coconut flakes.
Cooking method
Cooking cream. We soften the butter, beat until the lumps disappear, mix with condensed milk and
lemon juice, mix thoroughly. Smear cream cakes alternately. Make sure that the edges are smeared without gaps. We decorate with two hearts - roll out the marmalade with a rolling pin and cut out the hearts with a stencil. We fill the cake with hearts except grated chocolate on a coarse grater, and sprinkle the edges with colored coconut flakes. It turns out beautifully, very romantic. All that is missing is a lit candle and romantic music.
Recipe 4. Hot Napoleon cake cake with meat
And one more recipe we offer to those who have an eternal lack of time. We use puff cakes "Napoleon" and minced meat. The filling can be fish, with eggs and herbs, and on top is a soft cheese crust.
Ingredients: puff cakes for Napoleon (1 pack), minced meat (200 grams), green onion feathers (100 grams), eggs (4 pcs), cheese, a pack of mayonnaise.
Cooking method
The packaging of store cakes usually contains 6 puff plates. For this recipe, 4 pieces are enough. Stuff the minced meat in a pan until cooked. When forming the cake, put the meat on the first cake, on the second onion mixed with 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, on the third egg. Mix the cheese with 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, put it on the top, fourth cake and put in a preheated oven for 25 minutes. Are you done? Men really like him, this meaty Napoleon with a delicious crust.
Shortcake cake - tips from experienced chefs
Since the main thing in a puff cake is cream, here are some original recipes:
- Fruit cream: milk, sugar (2 tablespoons each), egg, butter (cream, 200 grams), apricot juice, cherry or strawberry. Beat in a mixer.
- Rice flour cream: sugar (250 g), milk (1 liter), rice flour (70 grams) cream (150 g), apricot (or any other) marmalade, a little salt. Bring milk with sugar to a boil, pour, stirring, rice flour diluted in cold milk, boil for 5-10 minutes, add soaked gelatin. Introduce whipped cream into the chilled mixture.
- Glase cream: for 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 200 gamma margarine and a bag of vanillin. Beat eggs with sugar, combine with soft butter and beat again.
Impregnation
- diluted fruit syrup with sugar (orange, cherry, apricot, raspberry, etc.);
- sugar syrup with liquor, cognac or rum.
- coffee drink with fruit essence.
