Cakes. Cake recipes: Napoleon, Honey cake, Biscuit, Chocolate, Bird's milk, Sour cream ...

Today, along with the familiar childhood recipes from Napoleon, Ryzhik or Medovik, unusual, exotic cake recipes are becoming more and more popular.

In addition, today the cake should not only be delicious, but also beautiful, and ideally healthy. The latter is rarely done, this rule only works with fruit or jelly cakes, all others - entirely composed of fats, eggs and sugar. However, each of us from time to time wants to treat yourself to a delicious cake. We offer you the best cake recipes for the holiday table. And first, of course, the most popular and delicious cakes.

Emperor Napoleon had a very complex character, but Napoleon's cake has a very simple recipe, but at the same time it is extremely tasty and nutritious. Here's how to cook it:

Ingredients

400 gr. margarine
200 ml of water
800 gr. flour
20 g. sugar
400 gr. butter
condensed milk (1 bank)

Method of preparation

Chop the margarine with water, flour, sugar, salt. We send the dough for a couple of hours in the fridge.
Beat butter with condensed milk with a mixer.
Taking the dough out of the fridge, mix it well, divide it into 9 equal parts, roll it out very thinly and bake in a well-heated oven (up to 200 degrees). It must be remembered that the cakes are baked very quickly, so you should not leave for a long time. They are very tender and thin, so you need to get them out of the oven very carefully. But if any of the cake breaks, do not worry, he will go for decoration.
When we bake all the cakes, we begin to construct our “Napoleon”, spreading each cake with whipped cream with condensed milk.
One of the cakes is three grated, and when we make the top cake of the cake, and its sides, we sprinkle everything with this crumb. Then leave the cake for a few hours in the fridge to soak in - and it's ready.

One of the most tender and wonderfully delicious cakes, conquering us with honey aroma and softness is Honey Cake or Honey Cake. We present you his classic recipe.

Ingredients

3 eggs
200 gr. sugar
40 g. honey
tsp. soda,
500 gr. flour
500 gr. thick cream
200 gr. sugar

Method of preparation

We prepare the dough for the cake layers by mixing eggs, sugar, honey, flour and soda, and then divide it into 7 equal parts and roll each one thinly enough.
Bake cakes at a temperature of about 220 degrees to red.
When taking out the cakes from the oven, we immediately cut them to the desired shape, and put the trimmings into the still warm oven so that they are dry.
Thoroughly whip sour cream with sugar with a mixer.
We collect the cake, spreading each cake with cream. Also well promazhem side and top of the cake.
Trim grates or pound, and sprinkle the cake with them.
The resulting honey cake is left for an hour at room temperature for impregnation, but ideally it should then stand in the refrigerator for another 10-12 hours.

It is not easy to make a good biscuit with the seeming simplicity of the process, but with our recipe you will definitely succeed. For making biscuit, we need:

Ingredients

4 eggs
150 gr. sugar
100 grams. flour;
1 baking powder

Method of preparation

Separate the whites from the yolks, cool the whites and whip with a few drops of lemon juice and a pinch of salt.
We make powder from sugar and most of it is added to proteins, then we continue to beat them again.
When the whites are whipped, we begin to beat 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 until smooth, then add the proteins.
We shift the dough into the form, and put it into the oven heated to 200 degrees for half an hour.
Remove the finished biscuit, cool it and cut it into 3 pieces, and then lubricate them with any cream and put them into a cake.

Chocolate cake, without a doubt, is the dream of every chocolate lover. And this is how you can cook it:

Ingredients

3 eggs
300 gr. sugar
1 cup of kefir
1 tsp. soda, hydrated vinegar
400 gr. flour
30 g. cocoa
30 g chocolate liquor
400 gr. thick cream
200 gr. sugar
1 tsp. gelatin
2 Black Chocolate Bars

Method of preparation

Beat eggs with sugar, add kefir, cocoa, flour and soda.
Bake 2 cakes in an oven heated to 170 degrees (about half an hour), then cool each cake, cut into 2 and soak in liqueur.
Whip sour cream with sugar. Dissolve gelatin in 2 tbsp. l boiled water and add to sour cream, continuing to beat.
Coat the cakes with the resulting cream.
Having melted the chocolate, cover it with a cake and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.

Once this cake, which was sold in the confectionery restaurant “Prague”, was a huge deficit, and resourceful housewives came up with a recipe as close as possible to the original. You can make this cake and you.

Ingredients

200 gr. flour
200 gr. sugar
4 eggs
20 g. flour
400 gr. sugar
10 eggs
40 g. gelatin
1 glass of milk
300 gr. butter
1 packet of vanilla sugar
100 grams. sugar
100 grams. cocoa powder
100 ml of milk

Method of preparation

Beat eggs with sugar for 10 minutes, add flour, stir. We bake a sponge cake on medium heat for about half an hour, then cool and cut into two layers.
For cream, first pour gelatin 150 ml of warm water.
Separate the yolks and proteins, remove the latter in the fridge, and beat the yolks to full with a glass of sugar. Then pour the milk in there, pour in the flour and mix.
Put the saucepan in the water bath and, stirring, bring to the appearance of bubbles and a strong increase in volume. Then the mass should be cooled, also stirring.
We whisk the butter, previously softened to room temperature, gradually adding the custard and vanilla sugar obtained earlier, then we mix and we get an oily cream.
Gelatin is brought to complete dissolution, filtered if necessary.
Protein in a large saucepan, beat with sugar into a strong foam, pour the dissolved gelatin into it and mix well.
Add a little buttery cream creamy, whipping.
We collect our cake. We moisten the lower biscuit with a brush with cognac syrup so that it is slightly soaked. Spread the cream on top, cover with the second crust, press lightly, put it in the fridge for a few hours until it solidifies (better - at night).
After hardening, cover the cake with chocolate icing made from sugar, cocoa powder and milk.

If you want to make a simple, but very tasty cake, then it is best to bake sour cream.

Ingredients

3 eggs
200 gr. sugar
300 gr. flour
300 gr. sour cream
0.5 tsp. soda, hydrated vinegar
1 packet of vanilla sugar
200 gr. sugar
350 g. sour cream

Method of preparation

Cooking dough from eggs, sugar, flour, sour cream, soda and vanilla sugar.
Pour it into the mold and bake in the oven, heated to 200 degrees.
After removing our cake from the oven and cool it, cut it into 2 pieces.
Beat chilled sour cream with sugar in a blender.
We coat our cakes with sour cream, collect the cake and leave it in the fridge for several hours to soak it.

An anthill cake is as tasty as original, and therefore every housewife seeks to learn how to cook it. And here is a wonderful recipe for this cake:

Ingredients

700 gr. flour
100 grams. sugar
200 gr. sour cream and butter
0.5 tsp. soda, hydrated vinegar
1 can of boiled condensed milk
200 gr. oils
pinch of salt

Method of preparation

Mix the flour with margarine, sugar, sour cream, salt and soda, knead the dough.
Pass the dough through a meat grinder, spread 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.
Remove the ready-made dough from the oven and grind with the help of tolkushki. It does not need to strive to achieve too small fraction of crumbs, there must be small pieces.
Pour our cream into crumbs, thoroughly mix the resulting mass, then lay everything on the plate in a slide, so that the shape of the cake resembles an anthill.
Put it in the fridge for a few hours so that it grabs. After that, our cake is ready.

If you want to make a cake that has an unusual appearance, then this is of course the Tortoise cake. It will decorate any holiday table. And here is his correct recipe.

Ingredients

6 eggs
300 gr. sugar
600 g. flour
0.5 tsp. soda, hydrated vinegar
750 g. sour cream
200 gr. sugar
100 grams. sugar
50 g butter
50 gr. cocoa powder
50 gr. sour cream

Method of preparation

Beat eggs with sugar, then add flour and soda.
On a pre-heated baking sheet, greased with butter, spread the dough with small pancakes with a spoon, then put in the oven and bake, and when they are lightly reddened, remove them.
While the pancakes are cooling down, prepare the cream, whipping the sour cream with sugar. We also prepare the glaze by mixing sugar and butter and heating them over low heat. When butter is melted, add cocoa and sour cream and simmer for about 10 minutes.
When the pancakes are cool, put the 3 cakes aside, and lay the rest on the dish with chamomile and smear the layers with sour cream. In total there should be about 5 layers, and the cake itself should look like a tortoise. From above we fill it with glaze, and cut the three pellets left in half and make a “turtle” for them, head, paws and tail.

The “Prague” cake (pictured above) is an amazing mixture of chocolate, air cake and cream. For its preparation it is necessary 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, half a can of condensed milk and half a teaspoon of soda. To prepare the dough, all the ingredients should be mixed and kneaded well. Then they should be divided into three parts and thus baked three cakes. Before baking, grease the pan or form thoroughly with oil. Oven each cake should be 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 mashed with condensed cocoa to obtain a fluffy mass. Smear the cakes with the resulting cream, and the cake can be coated on top with nuts or chocolate icing.

Cake “Mosaic” impresses with its 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 whipped with a mixer to obtain a chic in consistency mass, dilute the gelatin and mix with sour cream mass. Then, the result must be left to freeze, and at this time to prepare a “hard” multi-colored jelly, it should harden faster than sour cream. Then you need to cut it into large cubes and pour it into a container with sour cream and gelatin. Mix gently, arrange in beautiful shapes and leave to freeze.

To make the “Count ruins” cake, you need four egg whites, a glass of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla sugar. From these products you need to cook meringue, whipping proteins with sugar, and then baking them in the oven. The resulting bezheski need to smear the cream from a pack of butter and 8 tablespoons of condensed milk. For cream, butter and condensed milk should be whipped well, and then lay the meringue layer on the dish, the second layer of bezekhek needs to be smeared with cream in the lower part and put all the meringues in the form of a hill. The cake is poured over brandy, chocolate and sprinkled with walnuts or coconut chips.

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