Cake - a dessert, rectangular or round, consisting of cakes and cream.
Previously, cake cakes were baked only round.
It was believed that cakes of this shape symbolize the sun and fertility.
Today, cakes can be from a traditional round or rectangular shape, to cakes in the form of cars, castles, dolls, cartoon characters, etc.
A delicious cake at home - the basic principles of preparation
The recipes for a delicious cake at home are striking in their diversity.
Sponge cake, waffle, custard, sand, puff - this is the most popular dough that is used to make cakes. In principle, you can cook any other dough whose recipe you know. To make the taste of the cake more interesting, nuts, dried fruits or pieces of chocolate are added to the dough.
All ingredients are combined and knead the dough for the cake. It can be liquid or cool enough. Then cakes are baked from it and cooled. If you wish, you can soak them with syrup or jam, diluted with water or milk.
Cream is used to decorate and lubricate cakes. It can be oily, protein, creamy, curd or sour cream. It all depends on what it is prepared on the basis of. In addition to cream, jelly, marmalade, meringue or fresh fruit are used for the cake.
After the cakes are baked, and the cream is cooked, you can start assembling 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 decorate.
Recipe 1. Tasty cake at home "Mousse"
Ingredients
Biscuit
20 g of cocoa powder;
100 g 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 gelatin powder;
40 g of granulated sugar.
Cooking method
1. Beat eggs with sugar in a lush foam.
2. Mix flour with cocoa. Four tablespoons of this mixture add to eggs whipped with sugar. Mix everything thoroughly with a whisk. Then add the remaining cocoa with flour in several steps, stirring the dough with a whisk, from the bottom up.
3. Cover the demountable form with parchment and pour the dough into it. Send it to the oven, preheated to 180 C and bake for forty minutes. Remove the biscuit from the oven and cool it completely.
4. Pour gelatin with water, mix and leave to swell.
5. Grate the yolks with a spoonful of sugar. Mix the remaining sugar with milk and put it on the fire. Keep, stirring constantly, until the milk begins to boil. Do not bring to a boil!
6. Pour most of the milk into grated yolks with a thin stream, stirring the mixture with a whisk.
7. Return the egg-milk mixture to a bowl with milk and put on the fire, stirring continuously, bring to a light thickening. Remove mixture from heat and continue stirring for another minute. Then add the swollen gelatin and broken chocolate pieces. Knead the mixture well and cool to a warm state, constantly stirring with a whisk so that the crust does not appear on top.
8. Beat cream until soft peaks. Add two tablespoons to the milk-gelatin mixture and mix quickly. Then add the remaining cream in several steps.
9. Cut the biscuit in half. Trim the bottom so that it becomes slightly smaller than the diameter of the mold. You can put the second part in a bag and put it in the refrigerator, it will not be useful to us.
10. Put the cake in a detachable form. From baking paper, make the sides and fasten them strong. Pour the mousse into the mold and put the mold in the refrigerator for four hours. Remove the finished cake from the refrigerator, remove the parchment and decorate the cake with mint and strawberry leaves. Sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.
Recipe 2. Tasty cake at home "Curly Pancho"
Ingredients
Dough
50 g of cocoa powder;
a glass of flour;
half a can of condensed milk;
an incomplete glass of sugar;
10 g slaked vinegar soda.
two eggs;
incomplete glass of sour cream.
Cream
vanilla sugar - a bag;
200 g granulated sugar;
600 g of sour cream.
Glaze
80 ml of milk;
granulated sugar - 80 g;
50 g butter;
cocoa powder - 10 g.
Cooking method
1. Beat white eggs with sugar. Add condensed milk and sour cream, slaked soda to the egg mixture. Add the flour gradually and knead the dough. Divide it into three equal parts.
2. Pour one part into a baking sheet covered with baking paper and bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 20 minutes. Remove the biscuit, cool and remove the parchment. Put it on a large dish, turning it over, and pour over the remaining condensed milk.
3. Add cocoa to the other two parts of the dough. Bake two more biscuit cakes. Cool and break them into small pieces.
4. Add the granulated sugar and vanilla to the sour cream. Leave for a while to let the sugar crystal dissolve. Then beat the sour cream and refrigerate for half an hour.
5. Dip the pieces of chocolate biscuit in sour cream and spread on a cake with a slide, pouring condensed milk. Top up with cream and put in the refrigerator.
6. Pour milk into a bowl, add sugar, cocoa and butter and put on fire. Cook until boiling. Hold for another two minutes on fire and cool. Pour the cake evenly with it and return to the refrigerator.
Recipe 3. A delicious cake at home without baking cookies with marshmallows
Ingredients
a pound of marshmallow;
50 g of walnuts;
half a kilogram of shortbread cookies;
100 ml of milk;
400 ml of 35% cream;
3 bananas;
200 g of soft cottage cheese;
140 g of sugar;
1 g of vanillin.
Cooking method
1. Cut marshmallows with washers. We postpone a few curly washers for decoration.
2. Beat with a mixer the cream of sugar until soft peaks, add vanillin and soft cottage cheese and continue to whip until the cream becomes thick. Send it to the refrigerator.
3. Peel the bananas and cut them obliquely in circles.
4. Pour milk into a deep bowl. Dip each cookie into it and put it on a suitable plate. Lubricate the surface of cookies with butter cream. Put marshmallow washers and banana slices on top. We cover with a second layer of cookies, after soaking it in milk. We continue to collect the cake in this order until all the ingredients are finished.
5. Lubricate the surface of the cake with cream. On top we spread the curly washers of marshmallows. The sides of the cake are also greased with cream. From the remains of cookies and nuts we make crumbs and sprinkle cake on it.
Recipe 4. Tasty cake at home "Exclusive"
Ingredients
a glass of 11% cream;
dark chocolate - 50 g;
10 g of gelatin;
can of assorted canned fruits;
200 g of curd;
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.
Cooking method
1. Divide the eggs into proteins and yolks. Beat the whites with a spoonful of sugar. Then add the remaining sugar gradually and beat until stable peaks.
2. Beat the yolks slightly and gradually add to the proteins, without stopping whipping them. Add flour, cocoa and soda to the protein mass. Mix very gently and quickly until smooth. Pour the dough into a detachable form and send the biscuit to bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at 180 C. Cool the finished biscuit and remove from the mold.
3. Cut the biscuit into two cakes, while one should be thicker than the other. Place thin cake in a detachable form covered with a film. Cut the thick cake into squares.
4. Cottage cheese to beat with sugar in a blender. Pour gelatin over fruit syrup and put on a slow fire, warm it until completely dissolved. Add the curd mass to the curd mixture, pour warm gelatin and cream. Beat and add fruit.
5. Put slices of biscuit into the cream and mix quickly. Pour the contents of the bowl over the cake and put in the refrigerator overnight. Cook the icing and pour the cake on it. Put in the refrigerator again. Remove the form and put the cake on a wide dish.
Recipe 5. Tasty cake at home "Anthill"
Ingredients
three and a half cups of flour;
butter - a pack;
half a glass of sugar;
200 ml of sour cream;
can of boiled condensed milk;
200 g margarine;
3 g of baking soda;
salt - 2 g.
Cooking method
1. Knead the dough out of flour, margarine, sour cream, soda and sugar. Using a meat grinder, squeeze it with short sausages and spread it on a baking sheet laid with baking paper. Bake cookies until golden brown at 180 C.
2. Put soft butter in a bowl and put boiled condensed milk to it. Beat the cream until smooth.
3. Put the cookies in a bowl and chop using a mashed potato topper. Pour cream into crumbs and mix well. Put the resulting mixture on a flat plate with a slide. Refrigerate at night.
Recipe 6. Delicious puff cream cake at home
Ingredients
350 ml of 10% cream;
30 ml of lemon juice;
325 g 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.
Cooking method
1. Beat the egg with sugar. Add salt and continue whipping, pour in hot cream. Now add the sifted flour and knead the dough. Leave the dough in a bowl for an hour, covering it with plastic wrap.
2. Heat the milk until hot. Beat eggs with half a glass of sugar until white, 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. Cook, stirring, until thickened. Cool it completely, mixing, so that the film does not appear on top.
3. In a separate bowl, mix the cottage cheese with boiled condensed milk. Beat the mixture with a blender into a homogeneous mass. Add lemon juice, mix and refrigerate.
4. Preheat the oven to 200 C. Divide the dough into 12 equal parts, each roll out into a thin circle, cut to the desired diameter and bake until cooked. Bake the cuts and grind them into crumbs.
5. Combine and curd cream to combine and mix until smooth. Cut strawberries into quarters. Cover the form with a film, put the cake, grease it with oil and spread the berries, then put the second cake. Lubricate it and spread strawberries. Now put three cakes, generously grease them with cream and lay out the berries. Then put two more cakes, grease with cream and lay the berries. So collect the cake to the end. Do not lubricate the upper cake.
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 to the refrigerator for at least ten hours. Get the finished cake, remove the film. Grease the sides and top with cream and sprinkle with crumbs.
Recipe 7. Tasty cake at home "Hummingbird"
Ingredients
Dough
170 ml of vegetable oil;
380 g of sugar;
250 g of pineapple;
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 of dark chocolate.
Cooking method
1. Peel and mash a banana with a fork. Add to it diced pineapple. Add butter and eggs here. Stir. In a separate bowl, mix all the loose ingredients. Combine the liquid and dry mixture and mix well.
2. Divide the dough in half and bake two cakes. Each cut in half and wrap in a ribbon. Leave overnight.
3. Beat soft butter with powdered sugar, add cottage cheese and continue to beat until smooth.
4. Coat each cake with cream, laying them on top of each other. Cook the chocolate and butter icing and pour the cake on top of it. Decorate the cake as you wish.
Delicious cake at home - tips and tricks
If you don’t have time, you can use ready-made cakes for the cake.
For sour cream, it is better to take homemade, thick sour cream.
Before preparing the butter cream, the oil must be removed from the refrigerator at least an hour before it becomes soft.
Be sure to leave the finished cake for several hours so that it is properly soaked.
