Cake "Flight" - a delicious and original dessert, which can always be prepared at home. With it, you can surprise guests, family and friends. This cake will appeal to both adults and children.
Cake for the whole family
Cake "Flight" is a delicious dessert, which is prepared from protein cakes and butter cream. Be sure to use cashews or peanuts in the preparation of the cake. In addition, this is a cake that will give complete freedom to your imagination, because you can decorate it as you please. It can be oil patterns or flowers, and meringues, or you can just leave a layer of cream on which to lay out an intricate chocolate ornament.
There are several options for the preparation of the cake "Flight". There is a more complex and labor-intensive, when to get the cream you need to boil milk with sugar. If you cook at home, then condensed milk, which can be freely purchased at any store, is best for this. So it will take you less time to make a cake, there will be an opportunity to stay with family and loved ones.
Dessert feature
Cake "Flight" is one of the so-called dry cakes. Instead of traditional crusts from the dough, which are traditional and well known to other recipes, they use protein meringues, which are dried in the oven.
In addition, if you adhere to the classic GOST, then we can not do without a cream, which must be prepared on the basis of butter. Such a set of products will make the cake delicious and crisp, it will literally melt in the mouth of your guests.
Scarce product
Recipe cake "Flight" at home can overpower any hostess. It is very sweet, tasty and bright in taste. The cake consists of airy protein cakes with butter cream and nuts.
This dessert has been familiar to many since Soviet times, when the recipe for the "Flight" cake was popular at many bakeries. The cream was made from butter, always of high quality. This dessert is obtained even by inexperienced chefs, so housewives often share the secrets of its preparation with friends and acquaintances.
Most importantly, follow all instructions carefully. If you are not mistaken in dosages, take exactly those ingredients that are advised by experienced chefs, then you are guaranteed to get a delicious home-made cake, which guests and family members will often remember. And on occasion, ask to cook it again.
Cooking secrets
There are several features that you must pay attention to. First of all, it is necessary to take oil with a fat content of at least 72 percent. Only in this case, protein cakes will not get wet from an extremely oily cream.
But nuts for the cake can be taken very different. Some people prefer peanuts, others only use cashews. And sometimes there’s a recipe for the "Flight" cake, in which nuts are not used at all. As you can see, these are optional ingredients, but they give the cake sophistication and piquancy.
In the Soviet years, this cake, as well as much at that time, often could be obtained only by pulling. A particularly acute shortage of gourmet desserts existed in the province. But today anyone can cook it. Everything you need, you can easily purchase in any store or market.
List of ingredients
According to the Recipe cake recipe, at home you will need to prepare separately the dough and cream.
For the test you need to take:
- about 170 grams of egg whites (this will take you at least five small eggs);
- 130 grams of nuts (most commonly used are cashews or peanuts);
- 320 grams of fine granulated sugar;
- one teaspoon of vanilla sugar.
For cream, take:
- 100 milliliters of milk;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 200 grams of butter.
The piquancy of the cake will give one teaspoon of cognac.
Additionally, have on hand half a tablespoon of cocoa.
Training
Before proceeding with the preparation of the "Flight" cake, the photo of which is in this article, you need to carefully prepare some ingredients. For example, nuts should be dried. To do this, use a baking sheet, on which send them briefly to the oven, or simply heat in a pan. In the latter case, you need to be especially careful, because there is a risk of overcooking them.
It is interesting that some housewives are not limited to one type of nuts, but use cashews and peanuts at once. This adds a unique taste to the dessert, especially this option is suitable when you start to cook the flight cake at home, and the right amount of nuts is simply not at hand. Then you can use such different options. In this case, it is preferable to add cashews to the sprinkling, and peanuts directly to the cakes.
Beat the squirrels
Now we come to the most magical culinary process. In order to make the “Flight” cake tasty and sweet at home, you need to thoroughly beat the required amount of protein with a mixer. This will take at least five minutes.
After this, gradually add sugar in small portions to the resulting mixture. It should be as small as possible. Pour a small amount of vanilla sugar, which is among the ingredients of the "Flight" cake, here. A recipe with a photo will help you make a dessert quickly and make no mistake.
Ultimately, you should have a dense protein mass. In this case, the sugar in it must be completely dissolved. Be sure to monitor the fulfillment of this condition, otherwise the cake may be candied, and this will adversely affect its taste.
Next, add chopped nuts to the mass with which we work. Once again, mix everything thoroughly.
Protein cake cakes
The recipe with a photo (step by step) of the "Flight" cake is presented in detail in this article. You need to take a spatula with which to apply two circles with a diameter of about 20-25 centimeters on the baking paper. This should take about two-thirds of the resulting protein mass, that is, one-third for each of the circles.
For convenience, you can use silicone molds. Now it's time to bake cakes or, in other words, dry on a baking sheet in the oven at a temperature of about 100 degrees. This will take about two hours.
Take the part of the protein mass that you have left unused for the small meringues you need to decorate the Flying cake. A recipe with a photo will help you clearly fulfill all the requirements without missing anything.
Control cake
Put another small portion of the protein mass on specially prepared parchment. It is useful to us for sprinkling cake after baking.
In addition, this workpiece has another important function. She will serve us as a prototype, which will help to check how much and sufficiently dried cakes, which will form the basis of our cake.
After all, they can’t be categorically broken, and with the extra cake you can do anything you want. After all, in the end, he will still go to sprinkle, which means that the cake needs to be finely chopped into crumbs.
Such a cake can be called a control. With it, you can easily and without fatal consequences for the remaining cakes determine when they are finally ready.
Protein Cream
Cream for this cake must be fat. This is one of the prerequisites. To cook it, thoroughly mix the milk with all the yolks. Add sugar to them, bring the whole mass to a boil. After that, quickly reduce the heat, and then cook, stirring constantly until the final thickening. You will get a very sweet milk syrup that needs to be cooled as much as possible. Do not spare time for this.
This is the recipe for the flight cake, step by step, if you decide to cook it in strict accordance with all state standards.
If you want to simplify your life a little and save money, then use condensed milk. At least, by their own admission, most housewives do this.
Now put the butter out of the refrigerator so that it stays at room temperature. It should become soft and supple. Beat it with a white mixer. Continuing to whip, pour milk syrup or condensed milk into it to make the cream the way it is needed for this cake.
At the very end of the whipping, add a teaspoon of cognac, which will give it a subtle zest. By the way, and there is scope for creativity. Cognac can be replaced with some other alcoholic drink. For example, rum or brandy.
Do not worry if there are children among those who will be treated to your cake. They won’t feel alcohol at all, it will not affect them in any way. In this case, it performs a taste function, giving a certain piquancy to this cake.
Now separate the cream and mix it with cocoa. This is useful for you to decorate and decorate the cake. You can draw cute patterns or write congratulatory words on the cake itself.
Do not forget to chop the extra cakes, which we separately laid out on parchment, and the rest of the nuts for the nut-protein crumbs in a blender. We use them for sprinkling.
Making a cake
It's time to collect the cake. To do this, apply half of your oily cream to one protein cake. Cover it with a second cake, put the second cake on top. Coat the sides thoroughly with cream.
Cake also needs to be sprinkled with crumbs. By tradition, this is done only from the sides and from above, but if you wish, you can spill each of the cakes.
Now you can decorate our cake. Use meringues for this. By the way, it holds well on the cream. Such a cake is stored for several days in the refrigerator, so do not worry if it is not eaten right away. He will not lose his taste.
True, you should not rely heavily on the cake remaining the next day. If you follow the instructions clearly, it will turn out so delicious that most will definitely ask for supplements.
One more tip. You need to cut this cake with a knife, on the blade of which there are cloves. It sometimes resembles a hacksaw. So you get more or less solid pieces, the cake itself will fall apart less.
You can prepare this delicious cake for any occasion, if desired, you can make it very solemn and elegant. So it is suitable for a children's birthday, and for a wedding anniversary, and for an anniversary, and for any other celebration. And you can surprise them with your closest people on a very ordinary day, since there are no special ingredients, and it will not take so much time. Especially if you use condensed milk for cream. Believe me, households will definitely appreciate it.