It is not necessary on the eve of the holiday to run to the store and buy a cake, choosing the freshest. Let's try to cook it yourself at home. We will definitely know the composition of the treat, and when it is baked.
For a quick recipe, biscuit dough is best. This does not require long kneading, it quickly bakes and leaves time for the preparation of homemade cream or a layer. For baking, you can choose an oven, slow cooker or microwave.
How to quickly and tasty make a cake at home - general principles of cooking
To knead the dough for the cake, we take only high-quality premium wheat flour, and be sure to add potato starch to the first grade flour.
If we choose a microwave for baking a cake, we use molds made of special glass that are suitable for its temperature and mode of operation.
Semi-finished dough is allowed. For example, ready-made puff pastry. It is quite possible to bake a decent “Napoleon” from it.
If we independently prepare the icing for the cake, we can add additional flavoring ingredients to it. For example, zest, ground spices, a drop of rum or brandy.
How to quickly and tasty make chocolate cake at home
Ingredients:
· Two glasses of flour;
A glass of sugar;
· Optionally cocoa powder;
· glass of water;
· To the taste of cardamom (ground);
A bag of vanillin;
A couple of pinch of salt;
50 ml of vegetable oil;
½ tsp soda (food);
1-2 tsp sour kefir;
· 50 g of chocolate bar;
50 g of butter (butter);
· 2-3 tbsp. l cream.
Cooking Method:
1. The cake blank will be baked in the oven, so immediately turn it on at a temperature of 180 ° C.
2. In a large bowl, mix water, sugar, vanillin, cardamom and salt. Add 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil and cocoa powder. It is possible without cocoa. We mix the flour with a mixture of soda and kefir. The dough should be soft and uniform.
3. Lubricate the form with lean butter and sprinkle with flour a little. Lay out the dough. Leave for a couple of minutes to stand in the heat and remove the bake.
4. In the meantime (in the microwave or in the water bath) melt the chocolate, butter and cream into the icing.
5. 45 minutes after the start of baking, remove the workpiece from the oven. Place it on a wire rack and let it cool slightly. Then pour the chocolate icing.
How to quickly and tasty make a Napoleon cake with ginger at home
Ingredients:
A pack of puff pastry;
A pack of butter;
A couple of pinches of ginger (dry);
A handful of nuts (a mixture of walnuts and pecans);
200 g of sugar;
3-4 tbsp. l flour;
One yolk.
For cream:
100 g butter;
· A third of a glass of milk;
A third glass of sugar;
· 1 tbsp. l flour.
Cooking Method:
1. First, prepare the cream. In boiled cold milk, mix the flour. Put on a slow fire and heat, constantly stirring with a whisk. When the mass thickens, remove from heat and let it cool well.
2. Mix soft butter with sugar for cream and whisk with a mixer at the first or second speed until smooth. Add milk cream in portions and beat until tender mass at first speed. We will get a thick cream. Beat it up for a long time, then immediately put it in the refrigerator.
3. In the meantime, let's take a test for the cake. It should be already thawed - soft and elastic. Roll it with a rolling pin to a thin layer.
4. From soft (not melted) butter, ginger and flour, make a flat cake. You can just roll a piece in the flour, squeezing a little into it. Then we distribute the oil over the dough layer.
5. Wrap the dough in an envelope and roll it out again. Turn off again and put in a bag while in the freezer.
6. Walnuts are slightly fried and peeled. Pecan does not need this. We chop all the nuts with a knife or chop into crumbs. Mix with sugar.
7. Roll out the dough. But not to a thin layer. We keep the thickness - 1 cm. We cut the layer into squares according to the shape of the future cake. Cover each square with a mixture of sugar and nuts.
8. Put paper on the baking dish. All squares are layered on it. No need to snap the edges. Lubricate the top with yolk. We send to bake in the oven at 200 ° C for 30-35 minutes.
9. We take out the finished cakes from the heat and let it cool slightly. Then we will analyze the layers and cover them with cream. Then reconnect to the cake.
10. Instead of sprinkling, take coconut flakes or chopped pieces of baked dough.
How to quickly and tasty cook a curd cake in a pan at home
Ingredients:
A pack of cottage cheese (or 200 g of thick sour cream);
200 g of granulated sugar;
One chicken egg
A pinch of vanillin;
A pinch of dried mint;
300 g flour;
· Baking powder package;
50 ml of vegetable oil.
For the interlayer:
· 100 g of condensed milk;
100 g butter.
For impregnation:
Canned fruit or thick jam.
Cooking Method:
1. Mix the egg with sugar, dried mint, vanilla and cottage cheese. Pour flour and baking powder. Knead the dough and divide it into parts - 6 or 8. These will be cakes. Roll them into the shape of your pan.
2. Slightly grease the pan with lean oil and heat. Put the first cake and bake it like a big pancake - from two sides to a ruddy color. To make the baking faster and better, we first go through the entire surface of the dough sheet with a fork. So bake all the cakes. Put them on the grill to cool.
3. Stir in the condensed milk with soft butter and a whipping mixer.
4. Canned fruit cut into small pieces.
5. On the plate, put the first cake of the dough. We put some fruit on it and cover it with cream. Then the second cake. And again, fruits and cream. When all the cakes are over, decorate the top and put the cake in the refrigerator.
6. After 30-40 minutes, the cake will cut and eat the cake.
How to quickly and tasty make a cold gelatin and fruit cake at home
Ingredients:
· 4 tbsp. l gelatin;
Half banana
150 g canned peaches;
One pear;
200 g of sour cream;
· A glass of sugar.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour gelatin with boiled cold water. Let’s give him a good insistence for a quarter hour or even a little more. Then put it on a slow fire and stir. As soon as the grains disperse, immediately remove from heat. If the gelatin boils, its adhesive properties will disappear.
2. Filter gelatin and leave it on the table for now.
3. Prepare all the fruits. We take them to your taste, it is quite possible to replace peaches with grapes, and pear with melon and so on. So, we clear the selected fruits of all unnecessary and cut into smaller ones.
4. Mix sour cream and sugar and beat until foam. If you take the powder, it will disperse faster than sugar. Then, at the first speed of whipping, pour in the gelatin and mix the ingredients.
5. The carved or curved shape is covered with cling film or a layer of cling film. Pour sour cream-gelatin mixture into it and pour out all the fruits. We distribute them by weight.
6. Put in the refrigerator until completely solidified. Then we turn it on a plate and remove the form and layers of foil or film. Dessert is ready to eat!
How to quickly and tasty make cake from store cakes at home
Ingredients:
· Three or four cakes (waffle or biscuit);
Three eggs (C1 or C0)
Half a glass of sugar;
Half a glass of cream;
1 tsp corn or potato starch;
· Half a pack of butter.
Cooking Method:
1. Eggs are divided into proteins and yolks. Add half the sugar to the proteins and beat into a lush, thick foam. We will cover Viennese waffles with it - there should be a protein cream in the depressions of the cakes. Put in the oven at 200 ° C for 4-5 minutes in the oven. It is necessary that the cream is baked.
2. Mix the yolks with sugar, cream and starch. Put on a slow fire and stir. When the mass thickens, remove from heat. Let’s cool and beat with a mixer.
3. Beat the soft butter separately and mix in a few strokes with a yolk-cream cream with a mixer. We do it at the first speed.
4. Cakes with cream pulled out of the oven and cool. Then cover with cream and combine. Let’s cool slightly and serve.
How to quickly and tasty cook pumpkin cake in a slow cooker at home
Ingredients:
350 g flour;
· Bag of baking powder;
2-3 g of salt;
A couple of pinches of ground cinnamon;
A glass of granulated sugar;
100 g butter (cream or margarine);
Three chicken eggs (C1 or C0)
150 g of ripe pumpkin;
30 ml of oil;
· A can of boiled condensed milk.
Cooking Method:
1. Fresh pumpkin peel and seeds, grate on a grater. Add oil and heat in a saucepan. Let’s cool the mass. Instead of pumpkins, if you wish, you can take zucchini, apple, carrots or turnips.
2. Add sugar, eggs in a pumpkin and slightly beat. Add flour, salt, cinnamon and baking powder. Mix or beat until smooth.
3. Lubricate the multicooker with vegetable oil and lay out the whole dough. Close the lid and set the baking mode for 50-60 minutes.
4. Then we will take it out and cool, cover with a layer of boiled condensed milk. If desired, she can interlayer the cake.
How to quickly and tasty make a cake at home - tricks and tips
· If there is no time to bake cake cakes, then you can take ready-made from the store - biscuit or waffle. All that remains is to whip the cream and prepare the fruit layer.
· In recipes where the ingredients contain unsweetened cocoa powder, it can be replaced with instant coffee of the desired strength.
· If you plan to cover your cake with chocolate, then it is better to take it of three types - dark, milk and white chocolate.
· For the children's version of the cake for decoration, you can take confectionery topping.
