As they say, you cannot forbid beautiful life. We will add that to eat tasty is also. On the agenda - beloved by many housewives, cooks and just kids waffle cake. To prepare this masterpiece, you do not need to have the skills of a chef who received three Michelin stars. It will be enough that you just know how to hold a mixer in your hands and whip the ingredients according to the recipe.
Waffles are a taste familiar to everyone since childhood. According to legend, the first who created this wonderful culinary creation were the Greeks. But fortunately, they failed to keep the secret of the recipe, and the world saw a new dessert. Waffles and residents of Germany also fell in love. After all, the word "waffle" in translation from German into Russian means "honeycomb". If you think about it and look at the pattern, you can see that it really resembles a honeycomb. But to give all people the opportunity to feel like cooks, the American engineer Cornelius Swarthout invented in 1869 a machine, which was later called a waffle iron.
Scientists claim that this delicacy was mentioned in earlier sources. In the XIII century, for example, it was prepared only for the nobility. Wafers became really popular after their recipe was published in a cookbook in 1735. Time does not stand still, and production technologies, recipes, too.
Today we will focus on the recipe for a waffle cake, and not just one, but several.
What products are needed for the cake
It is always based on cakes, which are a dime a dozen in the modern food market. But you must admit that it is better to bake them at home, knowing what they are made of. And here are some tips for those who still dare to bake the wafer base of the house:
- To make the dough beautiful and airy, use exclusively yolks. Reduce the dose of sugar and replace most of it with powdered sugar.
- Waffle dough should be similar in texture to pancake. Subject to all culinary standards and the recipe, it will turn out liquid. In order to give it porosity, you can use a baking powder.
- It is necessary to bake cakes in special waffle irons at a temperature of 180 degrees. Three minutes will be enough. To prevent the resulting cake from sticking to the machine, grease it in advance.
There are many options for waffle cakes, but today we will analyze only a few of them.
Pineapple Cake
In general, there is no strict specificity in whether it is possible to add something else or not. This primarily depends on the person himself. You can add to the dessert whatever your heart desires: chocolate, nuts, fruits, berries. Let's find out the recipe for pineapple waffle cake.
Ingredients
You will need:
- 3 squirrels;
- mass of marzipan - 200 grams;
- 60 grams of milk;
- 60 grams of premium flour;
- fresh pineapple;
- icing sugar - 120 grams;
- 300 grams of 33% cream;
- orange liquor (as an option, Coentrau can be used);
- cinnamon.
Cooking cake
To begin with, very finely rub the marzipan on a grater, then add slightly whipped proteins to it. They do not recommend whipping too much, just mix thoroughly with a whisk. Next, mix the icing sugar with flour and a pinch of cinnamon. After completing all these steps, you should get a batter.
Then we take out a baking dish, grease it with fat and fry crispy waffles.
In the next step, peel the pineapple. Divide the fruit into two parts: just grind one with a knife, and bring the other to the consistency of mashed potatoes in a blender. Now take the cream and beat them until very thick foam, gradually mixing orange liquor and pineapple puree.
Now you need to grease the wafer shortcakes with creamy pineapple cream, stack them one on top of the other (in a pile). Alternate: for example, you put nuts on one layer, finely chopped pineapples on the other. At the end, smear with a cream, as in the photo, a waffle cake from different sides so that there are no gaps.
You can decorate our cake with the rest of the cream using a pastry bag.
This dessert should be served immediately, as waffles can easily lose their stiffness and become less crispy.
Waffle Cake with Blueberries and Yogurt
Such a cake will appeal to all lovers of sweets and will be enjoyed even by those who are skeptical of this sweets. Spending less than five minutes to read the recipe and about 40 minutes to cook, you will delight the whole family with an original and delicious dessert. Let's move on to the recipe for a waffle cake with blueberries.
Ingredients:
- 600 grams of cottage cheese;
- 600 grams of yogurt (if there is no classic, you can take blueberry);
- 300 grams of waffles;
- 300 grams of blueberries;
- butter 100 grams;
- 400 grams of powdered sugar;
- one pack of gelatin;
- a glass of cream (10%).
Cooking method
We break the wafers bought in the store into small pieces and put them in a separate bowl. Then melt the butter and pour it on the resulting waffle chips. Level the surface with a spatula and tamp lightly.
We take cottage cheese, yogurt, sugar and beat until smooth. Peel and rinse the blueberries. Let the water drain, slightly dry the berries. Now you need to rub it with your hands or using kitchen appliances. The resulting puree is mixed with the curd mass. Soak gelatin in cold water.
Just a little bit warm the cream and add gelatin to them. The resulting solution is poured into the curd mixture, where the blueberries are.
On the wafer crumbs, drenched in melted butter, spread the curd mixture with blueberries. We remove the cake in the refrigerator for several hours so that the curd layer has time to slightly solidify. After the specified time, you can get a dessert and enjoy it with a cup of tea.
Waffle cake with condensed milk
This type of cake is considered one of the most popular in the world, because everyone loves condensed milk. To make this dessert, you just need a minimal amount of your time, but you will enjoy and remember the taste for a very, very long time.
Ingredients:
- purchased cakes;
- a jar of boiled condensed milk;
- 100 grams of peanuts;
- 50 ml of milk;
- 100 grams of dark chocolate;
- 50 grams of butter.
Cooking process
If suddenly there was no boiled condensed milk on the counter, you can take ordinary. Arriving home, just cook it yourself: put the jar in water and cook for about an hour over low heat. Finally, let's move on to the recipe for a waffle cake, you could familiarize yourself with the photo above.
Melt the butter and add it to the condensed milk. Mix until a homogeneous consistency.
On a special plate for the cake we spread the cake. On top we smear it with condensed milk and sprinkle with pre-chopped nuts. On top of the first cake, lay the second, third, etc. Each layer is coated with condensed milk and sprinkled with chopped nuts. So do with all the cakes except the last.
We cover our cake with the last cake, then cover it with baking paper and put the weighting agent very carefully on top. It is needed in order to compress all layers of the cake well. While this happens, we will prepare chocolate glaze.
Pour milk into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. There we put the broken chocolate and butter slices. We wait until the chocolate is completely dissolved. Then let the glaze cool slightly and thicken. Or you can use the remains of boiled condensed milk. Just cover the sides and top of the waffle cake. In the photo below, this is the recipe option. Additionally, you can decorate the dessert with ground hazelnuts or walnuts.
Remove the weighting agent from the cake. We coat the side edges and the top with chocolate icing and sprinkle with nuts. We put it in the refrigerator so that the icing hardens, and the cake turns out to be more saturated and delicate in taste. Waffle cake with condensed milk is ready!
The article clearly demonstrated how to make a homemade waffle cake. Even the most inexperienced cook will cope with such a task. You donβt need special skills and efforts when baking waffle cakes, everything will be done by a special frying pan or equipment.
Bon Appetit everyone!