No wonder dessert is served last, because this is the most delicate dish that is nicer to eat without experiencing hunger. The French know a lot about the preparation of sweets and tourists flock to their treats from all over the world, like moths to the light. The most popular recipe on the sweet menu is Cream Caramel. This dessert will honor any housewife if she manages to produce it with precision.
The basis of this caramel miracle is the French dessert “Creme Brulee,” whose variations resemble the taste of ice cream known since childhood.
Why do we love sweets?
The question is not as simple as it seems, because many nutritionists unanimously say about the dangers of sweets, calling sugar sweet death and claiming that numerous flavoring additives contribute to the rapid damage to tooth enamel. Aren't young children offered to replace desserts with fruit? And the girls who follow the figure prefer a piece of cake salad leaf. Despite all the excuses, it is incredibly difficult to resist a fresh aromatic dessert. Therefore, people go to all sorts of tricks, compromises with their figure and, going abroad, combine business with pleasure, that is, they learn another country and enjoy gastronomic delights.
Sweet dishes are universal, because it is the desserts that friends order at a fleeting meeting. Desserts can be enjoyed during a business meeting or a romantic date. It will be rather strange at a meeting with a lover to eat meatloaf with a meal or scoop up borsch with a spoon, while sucking a bone. In addition, doctors around the world unanimously argue that sweets are a powerful aphrodisiac that pushes to romantic exploits.
French bliss
France ... Even the sound of this country is delightful and romantic. After all, this is a whole world of creators, artists and fashion designers, cooks and sommeliers. Here live world connoisseurs of wine and delicious food, the most slender women and the most gallant (rumored) men. And French desserts simply make you dizzy, and those who have tasted them once, will forever fall into the sweet captivity of French cuisine. Many dishes cannot be repeated in your own kitchen, since such ingredients are not produced in our country. Is it possible to taste gastronomic bliss only in his homeland?
Some desserts are successfully obtained in any part of the world, which cannot but please the world of sweet tooth. For example, cream caramel is a favorite French dessert, a delicious cake to its taste, enthralling and inspiring romantic feelings.
Cooking yourself
What is the original recipe for "Cream Caramel"? Honestly, in the composition there is nothing out of the ordinary. A simple housewife with some temporary reserve will be able to please her family with the most delicious dessert, prepared in a couple of hours. Does the house have a one-piece shape about 7-8 centimeters high? Then cooking will be easier. In order not to cut yourself in portions, it is better to use a form of the same impressive diameter. After all, it’s so sad to try an amazing delicacy and realize that taking supplements will not work. Lubricate the form is not necessary. If the cream-caramel dessert is prepared at home, the recipe is somewhat simplified, but the taste does not lose.
The first step is to take care of the preparation of the caramel layer. It is possible that during cooking, salivation will increase, as aromas appear in the first minute. It will take sugar, about 5-6 tablespoons. Cream needs about 500 grams of cream, and not the lowest fat content. Add half a cup of sugar, a couple of eggs and
a vanilla pod. Now is the time to think about the cupcake, because without it the Cream-Caramel cake would be incomplete. The recipe resembles an ordinary biscuit with the difference that one egg, half a glass of sugar, in equal proportions of butter and milk, is enough. To make the cupcake airy add a teaspoon of baking powder.
In addition, put a glass of flour, a few tablespoons of cocoa, as well as vanillin and salt to taste.
Process started
Who in childhood did not cook homemade caramel? It turns out exclusively natural and easy to prepare. On low heat, the sugar is brought to a golden color. The main thing here is not to overdo it, otherwise it will give the burnt gourmet dessert “Cream-caramel”. The recipe allows you to add a few tablespoons of water to sugar, so that the caramel turns out to be more liquid and viscous. After reaching the desired consistency, the container is removed from the heat and cools. For creme brulee, all components are whipped with a mixer at high speed. The cupcake layer is prepared using the same technology. By this time, caramel freezes in the pan and cream brulee can be poured on top. And the cupcake base fits in the center. Do not be afraid to pour it locally in the center, since during the baking process it will spread over the entire surface.
The future cake has already passed the first stage and it is time to send it to the steam bath, for which the container with sweetness needs to be put in an empty form with boiling water. There should be enough water so that its level goes above the middle of the cake form.
Bake stove
The complex structure must be sent to the oven, which has already been preheated to 180 degrees. There the dessert will stand for about an hour. You need to get the finished dessert, cool in the refrigerator for 6 hours or even all night. The caramel, which makes up the bottom layer, will dissolve and give syrup. Excesses of the latter must be drained so that the cake does not receive excess fluid, which the recipe does not tolerate. Caramel cream needs to be turned over and the collected syrup poured onto a dish. Delicate dessert is best to try cold, but drink hot coffee or tea. The dish is very tender, but very high-calorie, so if eaters worry about the figure, then there will be no proper pleasure. Want to eat without remorse? Then you can slightly change the recipe! Caramel cream will turn out no worse if you take powdered milk instead of liquid milk and replace a large amount of sugar with condensed milk or even sweetener. If there are only egg proteins in the recipe, then less fat will be obtained, although the taste will slightly change. Cupcake base is prepared depending on the imagination, so do not strictly adhere to the recommendations. You can make the base zebra or cheese if you add a little cream cheese or cottage cheese.
Little tricks
The French primarily appreciate the aesthetics and indescribable beauty of the dish. Eating is a real ceremony, during which there is no place for haste, gluttony or sloppiness.
At the same time, French women allow themselves almost everything, but in moderate doses, from which they are famous for their thin waists. The French dessert “Cream-caramel”, the recipe of which excites chefs from all over the world, is high in calories due to the eggs, flour, butter and sugar used in the cooking process, but it is completely natural and unusually airy. It can not be absorbed in its entirety, but it is necessary to eat, enjoying every bite. Then saturation comes faster and one serving is enough for two. A cold dessert melts in your mouth and becomes especially tasty if you hold it longer in the cold. If the caramel is kept on fire until it is caramel, then the aroma becomes more saturated and vibrant, and the excess sweetness leaves. Cooks are advised to beat egg whites and yolks separately from each other, since individually they turn out to be more airy and tender. After whipping and combining with milk, it is recommended to strain the mixture through a sieve. If the oven is too hot, it is not forbidden to grease the forms with butter. By the way, for the piquant taste of caramel, you can add a spoonful of lemon juice to it before removing it from the fire. It is better to close the finished dessert with cling film so that it does not absorb extraneous odors and does not get stale, and when removed from the mold, you need to draw a wet knife along the edges and turn the cake over.
In a slow cooker
In chic restaurants they serve their own varieties of the most delicious dessert. But many people order the cream-caramel cake (recipe for the Master Chef), which one of the participants in such a show made in the finale. Now it has become easier to cook it for those who have the wonders of modern technology at home, namely double boiler and slow cooker. These devices allow you to cook quickly and tasty, even if there is no experience in creating this particular dish. To prepare a dessert using a slow cooker, it will take only 10 minutes, and the cake will be baked for no more than 40 minutes. The time savings are significant, and this is precisely what is sometimes lacking in restaurants or even during a home feast. The recipe can even be simplified a little more. You will need milk, eggs, sugar and molasses. Favorite dessert of the French will turn out no worse than from the chef!
From our cook
The popularity of culinary programs is understandable, because in the process of looking at the on-screen housewives they receive a visual master class on cooking delicious dishes from various parts of the world. For example, the program "Cooking yourself" on one of the channels became the first morning interlocutor of many people. And the host’s behavior, Yulia Vysotskaya, allowed her to see in her not just a media personality, but a woman, an adviser, and even a friend. And somehow the host conceived to prepare cream caramel. The recipe for Julia Vysotskaya could be almost original, as her kitchen has everything, but Julia decided to get closer to her audience and prepared a delicious French cake with an orientation on our life realities. Cream of 33% fat, vanilla sugar, milk and lemon juice were used. The taste and richness of the dessert directly depend on the fat content of the cream, so there is no need to save on them. For a family breakfast, it is better to prepare dessert in separate molds for ease of extraction and eating. Sugar can be used brown, as it is less harmful. Keep in the oven for a long time is not necessary, 25 minutes at 170 degrees is enough. By the way, buckwheat flour can be used to get an unusual taste of the cake and at the same time to accustom the family to more wholesome food!