Cake - a dessert, rectangular or round in shape, consisting of cakes and cream.
Earlier, cake cakes were baked only round.
It was believed that the cakes of this form symbolize the sun and fertility.
Today, cakes can range from traditional round or rectangular shapes to cakes in the form of cars, castles, dolls, cartoon characters, etc.
Delicious cake at home - the basic principles of cooking
Recipes for delicious cake at home are striking in their diversity.
Biscuit, waffle, choux, shortbread, puff is the most popular dough used to make cakes. Basically, you can cook any other dough, the recipe of which you know. To make the taste of the cake more interesting, add nuts, dried fruit or chocolate pieces to the dough.
All ingredients combine and knead the dough for the cake. It can be liquid or quite steep. Then bake cakes from it and cool. If you wish, you can soak them with syrup or jam, diluted with water or milk.
To decorate and lubricate the cake use cream. It can be oily, protein, creamy, cottage cheese or sour cream. It all depends on what it is cooked. In addition to the cream, jelly, marmalade, meringue or fresh fruit are used for the cake.
After the cakes have been baked, and the cream is cooked, you can begin to assemble the cake. Each cake is smeared with cream, laying them on top of each other. The top layer and sides are also smeared with cream and decorated.
Recipe 1. Tasty cake at home “Mousse”
Ingredients
Sponge cake
20 g of cocoa powder;
100 grams of granulated sugar;
80 g of flour;
3 eggs
Mousse
300 ml of 35% cream;
225 ml of milk;
dark chocolate - 100 g;
4 egg yolks;
10 g of powdered gelatin;
40 grams of granulated sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Beat eggs with sugar into lush foam.
2. Mix flour with cocoa. Four spoons of this mixture add to eggs, beaten with sugar. Mix everything thoroughly with a whisk. Then add the remaining cocoa with flour in a few tricks, mixing the dough with a whisk, bottom to top. 3. Cover the split form with parchment and pour dough into it. Send it to the oven, preheated to 180C and bake for forty minutes. Remove the sponge cake from the oven and cool it completely.
4. Pour gelatin with water, mix and leave to swell.
5. Yolks with a spoonful of sugar. The remaining sugar mixed with milk and put it on fire. To hold, constantly stirring, until the milk starts to boil. Do not bring to a boil!
6. A thin stream pour most of the milk into the frayed yolks, stirring the mixture with a whisk.
7. Return the egg-milk mixture to the bowl with milk and put on the fire, stirring continuously, bring to a light thickening. Remove the mixture from the heat and continue to stir for another minute. Then add the swollen gelatin and chopped chocolate pieces. Knead the mixture well and allow it to cool to a warm state, stirring constantly with a whisk so that a crust does not appear on top.
8. Cream whip until soft peaks. Add two spoons to the milky gelatin mixture and mix quickly. Then add the rest of the cream in a few tricks.
9. Cut the sponge cake in half. The bottom of the cut so that it becomes slightly smaller than the diameter of the form. You can put the second part in the bag and put it in the fridge, it will not be useful to us.
10. Put the cake in a split form. From baking paper to make the sides and secure them strong. Pour the mousse into the mold and put it in the fridge for four hours. Remove the finished cake from the refrigerator, remove the parchment and decorate the cake with mint leaves and strawberries. Sprinkle with icing sugar on top.
Recipe 2. Delicious home-made cake “Curly Pancho”
Ingredients
Dough
50 g of cocoa powder;
a glass of flour;
half a can of condensed milk;
incomplete glass of sugar;
10 g vinegar quenched soda.
two eggs;
incomplete glass of sour cream.
Cream
vanilla sugar - bag;
200 grams of granulated sugar;
600 g sour cream.
Glaze
80 ml of milk;
granulated sugar - 80 g;
50 g butter;
cocoa powder - 10 g
Method of preparation
1. Beat until white eggs with sugar. Add to the egg mixture condensed milk and sour cream, slaked soda. Gradually add flour and knead the dough. Divide it into three equal parts. 2. Pour one piece into a detachable mold made by baking paper and bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 20 minutes. Remove the sponge cake, cool and remove the parchment. Put it on a large dish, turning it over, and pour over the remaining condensed milk.
3. In the remaining two parts of the dough, add cocoa. Bake two more biscuit cakes. Cool and break them in small pieces.
4. In sour cream add sugar and vanilla. Leave for a while to dissolve the sugar crystals. Then beat the cream and put it in the fridge for half an hour.
5. Pieces of chocolate sponge cake dipped in sour cream and spread on a cake crust, pouring condensed milk. Top with cream and pour everything into the fridge.
6. Pour the milk into a bowl, add sugar, cocoa and butter and set on fire. Boil until boiling. Hold for another two minutes on fire and cool. Spread the cake evenly and put it back in the fridge.
Recipe 3. Delicious cake at home without baking marshmallow cookies
Ingredients
half a kilo of marshmallow;
50 grams of walnuts;
half a kilo of shortbread;
100 ml of milk;
400 ml of 35% cream;
3 bananas;
200 grams of soft cottage cheese;
140 g of sugar;
1 g of vanilla.
Method of preparation
1. We cut marshmallows with washers. We postpone several figured washers for decoration.
2. Beat cream with sugar until soft peaks with a mixer, add vanillin and soft cottage cheese and continue beating until cream becomes thick. Send it to the fridge.
3. Peel bananas and cut diagonally into circles.
4. Pour milk into a deep bowl. Dip each cookie into it and place on a suitable plate. Lubricate the surface of the cookies with butter cream. Put marshmallow washers and banana slices on top. We cover with the second layer of cookies, previously having moistened it in milk. Continue in this order to collect the cake until all the ingredients run out.
5. Grease the surface of the cake with cream. Top lay curly marshmallow washers. The sides of the cake also grease cream. From the remnants of cookies and nuts, we make crumb and sprinkle with it the cake.
Recipe 4. Delicious home-made cake “Exclusive”
Ingredients
a glass of 11% cream;
dark chocolate - 50 g;
10 g of gelatin;
a can of assorted fruit;
200 g of curd mass;
4 eggs;
550 g of cottage cheese;
one and a half glasses of sugar;
flour - 80 g;
75 g of cocoa powder;
2 pinches of soda.
Method of preparation
1. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Squirrels beat with a spoonful of sugar. Then gradually add the rest of the sugar and beat until resistant peaks.
2. Beat the yolks slightly and gradually add them to the whites, without stopping them. Add flour, cocoa and soda to the protein mass. Mix very gently and quickly until smooth. Pour the dough into a split form and send the biscuit baked in the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at 180C. Ready the sponge to cool and remove from the form.
3. Cut the sponge cake into two cakes, while one should be thicker than the other. Lay out the thin cake in a detachable form fastened with film. Cut the thick crust into squares.
4. Cottage cheese smash with sugar in a blender. Gelatin pour syrup from the fruit and put on a slow fire, warm it up to dissolve. In the cottage cheese mixture, add the curd mass, pour in warm gelatin and cream. Beat and add fruit.
5. Put the biscuit pieces into the cream and mix quickly. Pour the contents of the bowl over the cake and put it in the refrigerator overnight. Prepare the icing and pour it a cake. Put in the fridge again. Remove the form, and put the cake on a wide dish.
Recipe 5. Delicious home-made cake “Anthill”
Ingredients
three and a half cups of flour;
butter - pack;
half a cup of sugar;
200 ml of sour cream;
can of boiled condensed milk;
200 g margarine;
3 g of baking soda;
salt - 2 g
Method of preparation
1. Knead the dough from flour, margarine, sour cream, soda and sugar. Using a meat grinder, squeeze it out with short sausages and spread it on a baking sheet laid with baking paper. Bake cookies until golden brown at 180C.
2. Put soft butter in a bowl and put boiled condensed milk to it. Beat cream until smooth.
3. Transfer the cookies to the bowl and chop with mashed potatoes. Pour the cream into the crumbs and mix well. Put the mixture in a heap on a flat plate. Put in the fridge overnight.
Recipe 6. Delicious puff creamy cake at home
Ingredients
350 ml of 10% cream;
30 ml of lemon juice;
325 grams of sugar;
450 g of frozen or fresh strawberries;
2 pinches of soda;
300 g of cottage cheese;
5 glasses of flour;
vanillin;
3 eggs;
800 ml of milk;
400 g of boiled condensed milk.
Method of preparation
1. Beat the egg with sugar. Add salt and continue to beat, pour in hot cream. Now pour the sifted flour and knead the dough. Leave the dough in the bowl for an hour, covering it with a wrap.
2. Heat milk to hot. Beat eggs with half a cup of sugar to white mass, add two tablespoons of flour and beat. Do not stop whipping, pour a thin stream into the milk. Add vanillin and put the cream in a water bath. Boil, stirring, until thick. Cool it completely, stirring, so that there is no film on top.
3. In a separate bowl, mix the curd with condensed milk. Beat the mixture using a blender into a homogeneous mass. Add lemon juice, mix and refrigerate.
4. Preheat oven to 200C. Divide the dough into 12 equal parts, each roll into a thin circle, cut to the desired diameter and bake until tender. Trim just bake and chop to crumb.
5. Combine custard and cottage cheese cream and mix until smooth. Cut strawberries into quarters. Cover the form with foil, lay out the cake, oil it and spread the berries, then put the second cake. He also missed and decompose strawberries. Now put three cakes, generously lubricate them with cream and put berries. Then put two more cakes, brush with cream and put the berries. So collect the cake to the end. Top cake does not lubricate.
6. Leave the cake for an hour. Then connect the ends of the film on top to make a bag. Cover with a plate and press down with a load. Send in the refrigerator for at least ten hours. Get ready cake, remove the film. Smear the sides and top with cream and sprinkle with crumb.
Recipe 7. Delicious homemade cake “Hummingbird”
Ingredients
Dough
170 ml of vegetable oil;
380 g of sugar;
250 g pineapples; 5 g of soda;
3 eggs;
5 g ground cinnamon;
1 large banana
Cream
100 g of powdered sugar;
180 g butter;
220 g curd cheese
Glaze
30 g butter;
60 g dark chocolate
Method of preparation
1. Banana peel and mash with a fork. Add diced pineapple to it. Add butter and eggs here. Stir. In a separate container to mix all the bulk ingredients. Combine liquid and dry mixture and knead well.
2. Divide the dough in half and bake two cakes. Each cut in half and wrap in hemp. Leave overnight.
3. Beat soft butter with icing sugar, add cottage cheese and continue to mix until smooth.
4. Each cake grease cream, stacking them on top of each other. Cook the chocolate and butter icing and pour a cake on top. Decorate the cake on your own.
A delicious cake at home - tips and tricks
- If you do not have time, you can use ready-made cakes for the cake.
- For sour cream it is better to take homemade, thick sour cream.
- Before cooking the butter cream, the butter must be removed from the refrigerator at least an hour before it becomes soft.
- Be sure to leave the finished cake for a few hours so that it should be soaked.
