Sand cake with jam is not in vain called a lifesaver. Shortcrust pastry is easy to prepare and affordable: they are inexpensive and, as a rule, are always in the house.
Below are some recipes for a shortbread cake with jam with a photo.
Cake Description
It is baked both with homemade jam and with purchased jams. Particularly well combined with shortcrust pastry is jam from sour or sweet and sour fruits: lingonberry, currant, plum and others.
Sand cake with jam has other names - grated pie or Viennese pie.
The secrets of shortcrust pastry
- Temperature. Shortbread dough loves cold. It should be cool in the kitchen, all foods should be cold. Oil must be removed from the refrigerator (not from the freezer!) Immediately before use, it must be solid.
- Eggs make the dough stiff. They can not be put at all or put only the yolk.
- Sugar or powder? If you put powdered sugar, the finished dough will be more crumbly.
- It is important to get crumbs after grinding flour with butter. So the dough will turn out soft and crumbly.
- The amount of butter (or margarine) cannot be reduced - thanks to it, the dough is so friable.
- Proportions. It is important to observe the ratio of flour to oil. Flour should be exactly twice as much.
- Knead shortbread dough only with your hands and not for long, otherwise the oil will begin to melt and the finished product will not be so tender.
- Sequence. First, all dry products are added to the flour, then they are triturated with oil and only then are the liquid components introduced.
- After kneading, the dough is placed in the refrigerator for 40 minutes, so that it is compressed and compressed.
- Rolling out. Roll out from the center to the edges. Thickness - from 4 to 8 mm.
- Temperature mode. Put in a preheated oven and bake at t 180-200 °.
Shortcrust pastry with eggs
Ingredients:
- three glasses of flour;
- two eggs;
- 250 g butter;
- a glass of sugar;
- 10 g of vanillin;
- a pinch of salt.
Stages of cooking:
- Sift flour so that it becomes airy.
- All dry foods can be mixed in a blender. These are flour, sugar, salt, vanillin.
- Butter should be cold. Cut it into cubes, put in a container with dry components and rub it with your hands until crumbs are obtained.
- Drive eggs into crumbs and knead the dough, which should turn out homogeneous.
- Wrap the dough with a towel and put in the refrigerator for one hour.
Egg-free dough recipe
Ingredients:
- 200 g of flour;
- powdered sugar (to taste);
- 100 g of sugar;
- two tbsp. tablespoons of water;
- a pinch of vanillin, salt and lemon zest.
Cooking:
- Pour salt, powdered sugar, lemon zest, vanilla into flour.
- Dice chilled butter and put in flour.
- Hands rub until crumbs are obtained.
- Add liquid and knead the dough quickly.
- Form a ball, wrap it in foil and put it in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
Instead of water, you can take sour cream. If desired, nuts, candied fruits, raisins, cinnamon are added to the dough.
Cake Recipe 1
To prepare it, you need shortbread dough and 250 g of currant jam.
Order of preparation:
- Remove the cold dough from the refrigerator and divide into four parts.
- Roll out a thin layer from each.
- Bake cakes at 200 ° C until golden brown.
- Cool the cakes. If they are uneven, trim the edges with a knife.
- Coat the cakes with currant jam, wrap in foil, put the load on top and put in the refrigerator for three hours.
- Get the cake of their refrigerator, grease the top cake with jam and sprinkle crumbs from the scraps of dough.
A shortbread cake with blackcurrant jam is ready.
Recipe 2. With Starch
To prepare it, you will need any homemade jam with sourness and 30 g of starch.
Order of preparation:
- Cut the cold dough into two parts. Put one in the freezer, and roll the other into the formation.
- Add a little starch to the jam so that it does not leak.
- Put a layer of jam on the resulting cake. Get the frozen dough out of their refrigerator, grate it and pour it over the jam.
- Put the cake in the preheated oven. Cooking time is about 30 minutes.
Sand cake with jam to cool. Then immediately chop and serve with tea.
Recipe 3. Glazed
This sandwich cake with jam is a little different. The photo shows that there are cream layers in it.
Ingredients for Cream:
- 220 g butter;
- three tablespoons of cocoa;
- incomplete can of condensed milk (approximately 2/3);
- 100 ml raspberry jam.
Glaze Ingredients:
- 200 g of powdered sugar;
- 50 g butter;
- three tablespoons of cocoa;
- 120 ml of water.
Cake baking:
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and divide into three parts. Roll each one to make cakes 0.5-0.8 cm thick. Chop the cakes with a knife or fork.
- Preheat the oven, bake cakes at 180 °. Cooking time - 5-8 minutes.
- Remove the finished cakes from the stove and, while they are hot, cut off the uneven edges to make rectangles with even edges.
Cream preparation:
- Cook condensed milk and cool.
- Pull the oil out of the refrigerator in advance and keep at room temperature so that it softens. Cut it into pieces and put in a bowl where it will go astray.
- Add the condensed milk in the oil a little and at the same time bring down. It is important not to interrupt, otherwise the oil may exfoliate.
- When the cream is ready, pour cocoa and mix. If you want to leave the cream white, do not put cocoa.
How to assemble:
- Apply a layer of jam on the cake, then a layer of cream, put the second cake, smear it with jam, then cream. Next, put the third cake and squeeze it with your hands. Flip the sides of the cake.
- Prepare the icing: mix sugar and cocoa, pour this mixture into boiling milk, cook, stirring, finally throw a piece of butter into the icing.
- Pour the surface and sides of the cake with chocolate. You can sprinkle the cake with crushed nuts, crumbs of dough, coconut.
Shortcake cake with jam can be put on the table and immediately pour tea.
Recipe 4. With berries
Divide the dough of their refrigerator into five identical parts. Roll three of them into balls and put them in the freezer.
Combine the two remaining parts and roll out the rectangular cake. Put it in a baking sheet or shape, knead it with your fingers so that it occupies the entire surface and you get sides. Put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Remove the form from the refrigerator, grease the cake with jam or berries wiped with sand.
Take one lump of dough in the freezer, grate it and sprinkle on a layer of jam on the cake. On top of the crumbs, apply another layer of jam, get a second ball and do the same. Then apply another layer of jam. When applying it, do not press grated dough. Get the third ball of frosted dough, grate and form the last, fifth layer.
In a preheated oven to 200 °, put the mold with future baking. Cooking time - 1 hour. Humidity in the finished product is quite possible due to jam, especially if pureed fresh berries are used.
Cool the cake and transfer to a flat dish. You can fill the top of the cake with chocolate icing, decorate with whipped cream or sour cream.
Sand cake with jam can immediately be served to the table, it does not need to be infused. Store in a closed container at room temperature.