Many women like to cook not only according to recipes, but prefer to experiment, changing them to their taste. It also concerns the preparation of cakes. For example, what if the cake is like, but the cream seems too oily or too sweet? The answer is obvious - try another cream. This article will focus on a variety of sour cream with various additives.
A host of creams sour cream at the disposal of the hostesses. The simplest and most common option is a cream of sour cream and sugar. To prepare it, you need 500 g of fat sour cream and 100 g of sugar. Both are laid out in a bowl, and beat with a mixer until the sugar dissolves - this is how this cream is prepared in most cases. However, this is how it turns out to be liquid and spreads.
There are a couple of tricks that allow you to make a thick cream: before cooking, you need to remove excess liquid from sour cream. You can do this as follows: put a shallow sieve on the pan. Put gauze at its bottom, and already put sour cream in it and leave it at least for a couple of hours. A better night. As a result, sour cream will change the consistency. Only then sugar is added to it and whipped. The second secret is that you need to beat sour cream with sugar for 15-20 minutes - much longer than they usually do. Well, the last trick: if you put the cream in the refrigerator for a while, then it will be much easier to work with it.
This cream is usually called sour cream. Nevertheless, from it make a huge number of other creams, no less tasty and much more original. For example, cream from sour cream and cottage cheese. For this cream you will need 150 g of cottage cheese, 50 g of sugar, 250 g of sour cream, and 250 g of fresh berries. Grind the cottage cheese with sugar and vanilla, add whipped sour cream and berries separately. Then everything is mixed and put in the refrigerator for half an hour, after which the mixture is whipped again.
Another option is a cream of sour cream and condensed milk. There are several options for this cream, but the simplest is the combination of these two ingredients. The condensed milk is poured into a bowl, add fat sour cream there and beat until smooth. This cream perfectly soaks cakes and pastries, so it’s very convenient to use, and the cake is very tender and sweet.
Many housewives like to add various fruits and berries to a cream of sour cream and condensed milk. For example, a banana. Simply knead it with a fork and mix in the finished cream. The taste of the cream changes quite a lot, but the consistency and ability to absorb remain the same.
There is a recipe in which a cream of sour cream and condensed milk is made with the addition of cream. The cream contains 450 g of sour cream, 200 ml of very fat cream, a bag of thickener for cream, 1/3 can of condensed milk, 100 g of powdered sugar.
Whip cream until thick, then separately - sour cream with sugar and thickener. In the whipped sour cream, condensed milk is added. It remains only to pour the cream into the sour cream mixture and mix very carefully.
And, finally, a cream of sour cream and condensed milk with cognac. Its taste is quite spicy, interesting and original. There are no special differences in the technology of preparing the cream: beat the condensed milk with sour cream, add cognac and put in the refrigerator to slightly freeze.
It is not necessary to use cream for impregnation and decoration of a cake or pastries. You can add berries, pieces of fruit, nuts, chocolate, cookies to it: everything your heart desires. In this case, the cream turns into an independent dish: a delicious, delicate and nutritious dessert. It is very easy to prepare and does not require complex and expensive ingredients. And if you serve it every time with new ingredients, then its use will turn for your guests and loved ones into a tasty and pleasant surprise.