Today, along with the childhood recipes “Napoleon”, “Ginger” or “Honey”, familiar from childhood, unusual, exotic cake recipes are gaining more and more popularity.
In addition, today the cake should be not only tasty, but also beautiful, and ideally healthy. The latter is rarely performed, a similar rule only works with fruit or jelly cakes, all the others are entirely made up of fats, eggs and sugar. However, from time to time, each of us wants to treat ourselves to a delicious cake. We offer you the best cake recipes for the festive table. And first of course, the most popular and delicious cakes.
The Emperor Napoleon was very complex, but the Napoleon cake has a very simple recipe, but it is extremely tasty and nutritious. Here's how to cook it:
Napoleon cake
Ingredients
- 400 gr. margarine
- 200 ml of water
- 800 gr. flour
- 20 gr. Sahara
- 400 gr. butter
- condensed milk (1 can)
Cooking method
- Chop margarine with water, flour, sugar, salt. We send the dough for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
- Beat butter with condensed milk with a mixer.
- Having taken the dough out of the refrigerator, we interfere well, divide it into 9 equal parts, each roll out very thinly and bake in a well-heated oven (up to 200 degrees). It must be remembered that cakes are baked very quickly, so do not go away for a long time. They are very delicate and thin, so you need to get them out of the oven very carefully. But if any of the cakes breaks, do not worry, he will go to the decoration.
- When we bake all the cakes, we begin to build our "Napoleon", smearing each cake with a cream of whipped oil with condensed milk.
- One of the cakes is three on a grater, and when we miss the top cake of the cake, and its sides, then sprinkle everything with this crumb. Then we leave the cake to soak in the refrigerator for several hours - and it is ready.
One of the most delicate and remarkably delicious cakes that captivates us with the aroma of honey and softness is Honey cake or Honey cake. We present you his classic recipe.
Honey cake (Honey cake)
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 200 gr. Sahara
- 40 gr honey
- tsp soda
- 500 gr. flour
- 500 gr. thick sour cream
- 200 gr. Sahara
Cooking method
- We make dough for shortcakes by mixing eggs, sugar, honey, flour and soda, and then divide it into 7 equal parts and each roll out quite thinly.
- Bake cakes at a temperature of about 220 degrees to red.
- Removing the cakes from the oven, immediately cut them to the desired shape, and place the trimmings in the still warm oven so that they dry.
- A well-whipped mixer with sour cream and sugar.
- We collect the cake, spreading cream on each cake. We’ll also coat the sides and top of the cake well.
- Rub the scraps or crush, and sprinkle the cake on them.
- We leave the resulting honey cake for an hour at room temperature for impregnation, but ideally it should then stand in the refrigerator for another 10-12 hours.
Preparing a good biscuit with the seeming simplicity of the process is not easy, but you will succeed with our recipe. To make a biscuit, we need:
Sponge cake
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 150 gr. Sahara
- 100 gr. flour;
- 1 baking powder
Cooking method
- Separate the whites from the yolks, cool the whites and beat with a few drops of lemon juice and a pinch of salt.
- We make powdered sugar and add most of it to proteins, then continue to beat them again.
- When the whites are whipped, we begin to whisk the yolks with the remaining powder until they turn into a white creamy air mass.
- Then gently mix the beaten yolks with flour, baking powder to a homogeneous mass, then add the proteins.
- We shift the dough into the form, and put it in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for half an hour.
- We take out the finished biscuit, cool and cut it into 3 parts, and then grease them with any cream and combine them into a cake.
Chocolate cake is without a doubt the dream of every chocolate lover. And here is how you can cook it:
Chocolate cake
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 300 gr Sahara
- 1 cup kefir
- 1 tsp soda, slaked vinegar
- 400 gr. flour
- 30 gr cocoa
- 30 g chocolate liquor
- 400 gr. thick sour cream
- 200 gr. Sahara
- 1 tsp gelatin
- 2 bars of dark chocolate
Cooking method
- Beat eggs with sugar, add kefir, cocoa, flour and soda.
- We bake 2 cakes in the oven, heated to 170 degrees (about half an hour), then cool each cake, cut into 2 and soak in liquor.
- Beat sour cream with sugar. Dissolve gelatin in 2 tbsp. l boiled water and add to sour cream, continuing to whisk.
- We coat the cakes with the cream obtained.
- After melting the chocolate, we cover the cake with it and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.
Once this cake, which was sold in the confectionery of the Prague restaurant, was a huge shortage, and resourceful housewives came up with a recipe that was as close as possible to the original. You can make this cake too.
Cake pigeon's milk
Ingredients
- 200 gr. flour
- 200 gr. Sahara
- 4 eggs
- 20 gr. flour
- 400 gr. Sahara
- 10 eggs
- 40 gr gelatin
- 1 cup milk
- 300 gr butter
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 100 gr. Sahara
- 100 gr. cocoa powder
- 100 ml of milk
Cooking method
- Beat eggs with sugar for 10 minutes, add flour, stir. Bake the biscuit on medium heat for about half an hour, then cool and cut into two layers.
- For cream, first fill in the gelatin with 150 ml of warm water.
- Separating the yolks and squirrels, remove the latter in the refrigerator, and whisk the yolks until fluffy with a glass of sugar. Then we pour milk there, pour in the flour and mix.
- We put the saucepan in a water bath and, stirring, bring to the appearance of bubbles and a strong increase in volume. Then the mass should be cooled, also stirring.
- Beat the butter preliminarily softened to room temperature, gradually adding the custard and vanilla sugar obtained earlier, then mix and get an oil cream.
- The gelatin is brought to complete dissolution, if necessary, filtered.
- Whisk the whites in a large saucepan with sugar in a strong foam, pour the dissolved gelatin into it and mix well.
- Add a little oil cream to the protein, whipping.
- Putting our cake together. We moisten the lower biscuit with a brush with syrup and cognac so that it is slightly soaked. Spread the cream on top, cover with a second cake, squeeze lightly, place in the refrigerator for several hours until completely solidified (preferably at night).
- After hardening, cover the cake with chocolate icing made from sugar, cocoa powder and milk.
If you want to cook a simple, but very tasty cake, then it is best to bake Sour cream.
Cake Sour Cream
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 200 gr. Sahara
- 300 gr flour
- 300 gr sour cream
- 0.5 tsp soda, slaked vinegar
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 200 gr. Sahara
- 350 gr sour cream
Cooking method
- We make dough from eggs, sugar, flour, sour cream, soda and vanilla sugar.
- Pour it into a mold and bake in an oven heated to 200 degrees.
- Having taken out our cake from the oven and having cooled, we cut it into 2 parts.
- Beat chilled sour cream with sugar in a mixer.
- We coat our cakes with sour cream, collect the cake and leave it for several hours in the refrigerator to soak.
The anthill cake is as tasty as the original, and therefore every housewife seeks to learn how to cook it. And here is a wonderful recipe for this cake:
Cake Anthill
Ingredients
- 700 gr. flour
- 100 gr. Sahara
- 200 gr. sour cream and butter
- 0.5 tsp soda, slaked vinegar
- 1 can of boiled condensed milk
- 200 gr. oils
- a pinch of salt
Cooking method
- Mix the flour with margarine, sugar, sour cream, salt and soda, knead the dough.
- Pass the dough through a meat grinder, put it on a baking sheet, and bake at 180 degrees until it reaches a golden color.
- At this time, beat the butter with condensed milk until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
- We take out the finished dough from the oven and grind it using a tolkushka. At the same time, one does not need to strive to achieve too small a fraction of crumbs, there should be just small pieces.
- We pour our cream into crumbs, carefully mix the resulting mass, then put everything on the dish with a slide so that the cake resembles an anthill in shape.
- We put it in the refrigerator for several hours so that it seizes. After that, our cake is ready.
If you want to make a cake with an unusual appearance, then this is of course a tortoise cake. It will decorate any holiday table. And here is his correct recipe.
Tortoise cake
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 300 gr Sahara
- 600 gr flour
- 0.5 tsp soda, slaked vinegar
- 750 gr. sour cream
- 200 gr. Sahara
- 100 gr. Sahara
- 50 g butter
- 50 gr cocoa powder
- 50 gr sour cream
Cooking method
- Beat eggs with sugar, then add flour and soda.
- On a preheated baking sheet, greased with oil, spread the dough with small pancakes in a spoon, then put in the oven and bake, and when they lightly brown, remove them.
- While the pancakes are cooling, prepare the cream, whipping the sour cream with sugar. We also prepare icing by mixing sugar and butter and heating them over low heat. When the butter has melted, add cocoa and sour cream and simmer for about 10 minutes.
- When the pancakes have cooled, put 3 cakes to the side, and put the rest on the dish with chamomile and grease their layers with sour cream. In total, approximately 5 layers should be obtained, and the cake itself should resemble a turtle in appearance. Fill it with glaze from above, and cut the three left flat cakes in half and make the head, paws and tail of the “turtle” out of them.
The Prague Cake (pictured above) is an amazing mix of chocolate, air cake and cream. To prepare it, you need to take a glass of flour and the same amount of sugar, as well as 2-3 eggs, up to 200 g of sour cream, a can of condensed milk and half a teaspoon of soda.
To prepare the dough, all the ingredients should be mixed and well kneaded. Then they should be divided into three parts and thus bake three cakes. Before baking, pan or pan must be thoroughly greased with oil. Each cake should be baked for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.
For the cream you will need a pack of butter and a half can of condensed cocoa. The butter should be softened and grated with condensed cocoa until a lush mass is obtained. Grease the cakes with the cream obtained, and on top of the cake you can cover with nuts or chocolate glaze.
Cake "Mosaic" strikes with simple ingredients and amazing taste. You will need a pound of sour cream, sugar, vanilla, gelatin and multi-colored jelly. Sour cream with sugar should be beaten with a mixer until an elegant mass is obtained, dilute gelatin and mix with sour cream. Then the result should be left to harden, and at this time to cook a "tight" multi-colored jelly, it should harden faster than sour cream. Then it needs to be cut into large cubes and pour into a container with sour cream and gelatin. Mix gently, arrange in beautiful shapes and leave to solidify.
To make the Count's Ruins cake, you need four egg whites, a glass of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla sugar. You need to make meringues from these products by whipping the whites with sugar and then baking them in the oven. The obtained bezeshki must be smeared with cream from a pack of butter and 8 tablespoons of condensed milk. For cream, butter and condensed milk should be beaten well, and then lay the meringues with a layer on the dish, the second layer of bezes should be greased with cream at the bottom and put all the meringues in a slide. Pour the cake with cognac, chocolate and sprinkle with walnuts or coconut.
