Homemade cakes are very different from store cakes in quality of manufacture. Most enterprises use chemical compounds that increase shelf life, and substitutes for natural products are included in the recipe. It should be noted and the approach to baking. In our kitchen, we cook with a soul, which, of course, is reflected in the taste. In the article you will find a selection of popular and new confectionery. These ideas are easy to translate into reality.
Carrot cake
Let's start with a simple cake. At home, it cooks quickly, and most importantly, it is also useful, especially for children.
Ingredients:
- carrot - 0.2 kg;
- one glass of flour, sugar;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- prunes (optional);
- baking powder sachet (10 g);
- 3 eggs;
- optional vanillin.
For cream in equal parts sugar with sour cream.
- We start with prunes, which need to be washed well, soak in hot water during the preparation of the dough.
- Peel the carrots and grind on a fine grater. As a result, you should get one faceted glass.
- Using a mixer or whisk, beat the eggs by adding sugar.
- Pour flour, baking powder and vanillin into a deep cup. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Add chopped prunes, beaten eggs, sunflower oil and carrots here. Knead the dough.
- Lubricate the form and sprinkle with semolina a little. Pour a biscuit here.
- Baking times may vary, but average 40 minutes.
- Cool the finished cake and divide it into equal parts.
Lubricate with cream. Leave for a while in a cool place so that the cake is well soaked.
"Turtle"
Try to cook an unusual homemade cake for your family. Its recipe does not include the use of any baking dish.
We will need:
- tiled chocolate;
- 2.5 cups of wheat flour;
- 0.75 kg of sugar;
- 500 ml of sour cream;
- 5 eggs;
- ½ cans of condensed milk.
Let's go through the recipe step by step. Homemade cake should please your family.
- We put eggs together with sugar at high speed.
- Immediately prepare the baking sheets, covering them with parchment paper.
- When the volume of the mass increases 2.5 times, remove the mixer to the side, pour out the flour and stir quickly so that the dough does not fall.
- We take a cook and pour small pancakes on the sheets.
- Immediately put in the oven for 15 minutes. If you do everything right and the dough does not fall, then you should get chubby cakes.
- Cooking cream. First, mix sugar with sour cream until it dissolves, and then add condensed milk.
- Cooking a large dish. Dipping each biscuit pancake, we first spread the legs, head and tail. Then a carapace of pyramids.
- The remaining cream needs to be poured over our design. Put in a cold place for several hours.
Before serving, garnish with a melted chocolate bar.
"Napoleon"
A homemade cake recipe (simple) involves a minimum of products and actions. This baking fits well with these conditions. For cakes, you can buy half a kilogram of puff pastry or make it yourself, which we will do.
Buy:
- 0.4 kg margarine;
- egg;
- salt;
- 0.5 kg of baking flour;
- 5% vinegar at the bottom of a teaspoon;
- 2 tsp Sahara.
In order to do everything quickly, you will need frozen margarine, which we divide into small pieces with a coarse grater. Add it to the flour mixed with sugar and salt.
Separately, shake the egg and vinegar in a glass of ice water with a whisk. Pour liquid into bulk solids and knead the dough quickly. Do not overdo it, it should not be homogeneous, but rather, it is easy to exfoliate.
Put in the freezer for a while. Then take out, divide and roll out thinly, giving the desired shape. Bake in the oven at 220 ° C. Set aside to cool.
Homemade Napoleon cake should be saturated with custard, which we will now prepare. A simple option is selected, for which you need:
- 2 eggs;
- half a liter of milk;
- a couple of tablespoons of flour;
- 0.2 kg of sugar.
Beat the eggs by adding sugar, and then pour the milk, add the flour. When you achieve the absence of lumps, put on a slow fire, stirring with a whisk, bring to a boil. Once the mass has thickened, remove and cool.
We collect the cake, spreading each cake with custard. The layers will crumble, but do not discard the remains. They will be a wonderful decoration of the top and sides.
"Zebra"
This simple home-made cake was baked in almost every Soviet family. It is pleasant to surprise guests with a striped piece that will delight not only the view, but also the great taste.
Products for Zebra:
- 200 g margarine;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- a glass of kefir or sour cream;
- sugar - 200 g;
- 260 g of flour;
- soda - 1 teaspoon;
- cocoa - 3 tbsp. l
Coating Glaze:
- 20 g margarine;
- 6 tbsp. l milk;
- 5 tbsp. l cocoa;
- 8 tbsp. l Sahara.
Melt fat, mix with granulated sugar and let cool slightly. We extinguish the soda in a deep bowl by adding it to sour cream or kefir, and pour the eggs with margarine, pour flour and a spoon into everything carefully. Divide into equal parts into cups. In one of them, it is necessary to add cocoa powder through a sieve.
We turn on the oven to have time to warm up to 180 ° C. Lubricate the mold with oil and sprinkle with semolina. Now, one by one, in a tablespoon, we put there either white or black dough on top of each other. The mass gradually spreads over the pan, but the colors do not mix.
Bake for about 1 hour, check with a toothpick. At this time, prepare the icing. We put on the fire a cup of milk, sugar and cocoa. Cook a little, constantly stirring with a whisk so that there are no lumps. When the mass is slightly thickened, remove from heat, immediately add oil and stir vigorously. Put on the finished cake and let cool.
Curdless 3-layer cake without baking
There are many cake recipes. At home, the housewives also create masterpieces. This option is suitable for both a festive table and a simple tea party.
1st layer:
- oil - 0.2 kg;
- any cookies (preferably oatmeal) - 0.3 kg.
Next layer:
- gelatin (food) - 15 g;
- sour cream - 0.1 kg;
- a glass of sugar;
- water;
- low-fat cottage cheese - 0.8 kg.
3rd layer:
- cherry gelatin - packaging;
- powdered sugar.
To make a homemade cake, we will immediately need a mold, since we won’t bake anything, but immediately put it layer by layer. You can take a curly one to make the dessert look more festive. The bottom should be removable, covered with cling film.
First, grind cookies in a blender, and then add room temperature oil to the same. When the mass ceases to crumble, put it on the bottom evenly.
We wash the blender and add the curd mass, sour cream, sugar. After mixing, pour in the gelatin dissolved in warm water previously. We start the device again. We have the filling in the second layer. Until it cooks up, put the mold in the refrigerator.
Read the jelly recipe on the packaging you bought. Take 2 times less water. If you know how to make it yourself from natural berries, it will be even better. When cooked, let cool slightly and fill in the curd mass.
Everything should have time to freeze in 6-8 hours. Remove the shape, garnish with fresh berries or just sprinkle with powdered sugar.
"Honey"
Let’s take a look at the recipe for a homemade cake, which many families like to cook.
We prepare the following products:
- ½ cup sugar;
- 3 tbsp. l honey;
- 2 eggs;
- 390 g of flour;
- 120 g of oil.
Cream can be used sour cream or just greased with boiled condensed milk.
In a cup we put in a water bath melt the margarine with sugar and honey. Constantly stirring with a whisk, add beaten eggs, and then soda. The mass should foam. As soon as the bubbles go, remove from the heat.
Enter the flour and knead the dough. It should turn out pretty soft and not bother. We divide it into 6 parts and roll it out. We don’t immediately correct the shape, since we will cut already-made cakes on it. We collect the cake using any cream and decorate with chopped leftovers.
"Broken glass"
Another option for a colorful simple cake at home without baking. Of course, you can replace cookies with sponge cakes. But it is up to you.
Products:
- cookies - 200 g;
- 2 tbsp. l gelatin;
- yogurt - 500 g;
- a glass of powdered sugar;
- water - 130 ml;
- fruits - strawberries, orange, banana, currants, kiwi;
- vanillin.
Wash, peel, and cut the fruit into small pieces. You can select a set of them yourself. The main thing is to get a lot of flowers. Break the cookies with your hands.
Dilute gelatin in hot water (only not in boiling water), wait until it swells, heat until dissolved and strain through a strainer. Add to room temperature yogurt, which was previously mixed with icing sugar.
Immediately begin to collect the cake in a form that is better to cover with cling film. The first layer will go fruit, then cookies, pour milk jelly. Repeat this way until you reach the edge of the bowl.
We put in the refrigerator for the night so that everything is well frozen. Free from form. Decorate better with fruit and only on top. You will see for yourself that it is so colorful.
"Cream"
If you think that it is made from ice cream, then you are mistaken. The pleasant filling taste of the cream will remind you of it. Remember this cake recipe. Step by step at home, try to cook today.
The required set of products:
- flour - 250 g;
- egg;
- 2 tsp baking powder;
- sugar - 0.25 kg;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- Margarine - 200 g.
For a gentle cream with an ice cream flavor:
- vanillin;
- milk - 0.5 l;
- potato (you can take another) starch - 1.5 tbsp. l .;
- oil - 190 g;
- sugar - 200 g.
In different cups, mix bulk and liquid components for cake, and then combine everything and bake in a greased form with butter. When the biscuit has cooled, cut it into cubes.
Cooking cream for homemade cake. To do this, first we breed potato starch in 4 tablespoons of milk. The rest is poured into a stewpan and set on fire. When it boils, immediately reduce the temperature and pour the diluted starch, granulated sugar and vanillin. Constantly stirring, cook until thickened. Allow the cream to cool slightly and mix with softened oil.
Cover the inside with cling film and lay out slices of biscuit mixed with cream. In a cold place leave for 4-5 hours. After turning over and free from cellophane. Top can be decorated with chocolate icing or fruit.
"Truffle"
Beautiful pastries that will conquer your entire family. Let's figure out how to cook a truffle cake step by step at home.
For shortcakes you will need:
- 70 g of flour;
- as much sugar;
- 4 eggs;
- 3 tbsp. l cocoa;
- a teaspoon of baking powder.
Souffle:
- gelatin - 10 g;
- milk - ½ cup;
- sour cream - 300 g;
- a bar of dark chocolate;
- a glass of sugar.
The process will be long, but worth it.
- Separate the yolks.
- We knock down the mixer to a white mass.
- Add flour with baking powder and cocoa powder.
- Again, working as a mixer, beat the proteins well so as not to lose their shape. At the same time, the corollas should be cleanly washed and dried.
- Add a little to the common bowl, immediately knead with a whisk.
- We spread the dough in the form of a multicooker (you can use the oven). It is necessary to level it and the oven in the set "Baking" mode.
- Don’t pull out the cake immediately, as it will be washed. Leave in shape for half an hour, remove and cool completely.
- Beat sour cream with sugar.
- Dilute gelatin in milk and bring to a boil, stirring constantly, add to sour cream.
- In a water bath, melt a bar of chocolate and pour into a cream with a thin stream.
- Putting the cake together. First, make a form of 2 layers of foil or use detachable.
- Cut the biscuit into 2 parts, put the first.
- Pour half the souffle.
- Cover with the second part of the cake and pour the remaining cream.
- Trim everything and leave to harden.
Mix powdered sugar with cocoa and sprinkle through a strainer.
Waffle cake
In the photo is a homemade cake, which is assembled from purchased cakes. Time spent only on the preparation of cream and assembly.
It will be required for 8 thin purchased wafer cakes:
- 2 cans of boiled condensed milk;
- ½ cup chopped walnuts;
- 1 tbsp. l cocoa.
We mix all the ingredients for the cream and simply assemble the structure, lubricating each layer.
This option is very suitable when there is absolutely no time.
Pancake cake
Such a cake at home is also cooked quite quickly, especially if you like to fry pancakes. There are many options, so do not list. It all depends on the preferences in the family, and when they decided to deal with it suddenly, then on the contents of the refrigerator.
Everything is simple here. Between each pancake is applied a layer of cream that you have prepared (you can even take ordinary boiled condensed milk). This way you can get a great dessert. If you decorate it well, then no one will probably guess what is inside.
Advice
If you often cook dessert using simple cake recipes at home, be sure to buy several split forms.
Always at hand should be foil, baking paper.
To make the cakes lush, extinguish soda in fermented milk products or in vinegar.
Decoration always depends on your preferences and talent.
Almost any recipe can be supplemented with your favorite ingredients.
Store baked goods in a cool place.