Almost any cake sold in stores can be prepared at home. Dessert may not look just as spectacular, but with due diligence, it will still turn out to be quite pleasant in appearance.
The undoubted advantage of homemade cakes is that all the ingredients will be fresh and natural. Something can be removed from the recipe, something can be added. After several preparations, the housewives have a proven recipe on their hands.
You can cook at home and "Napoleon", and "Kiev", and the cake "Black Prince". The same applies to fruit cakes with curd cream. Cakes can be biscuit, sand and even pancake. It all depends on personal preferences.
Undoubtedly, there are recipes that are difficult to give even to experienced housewives. The preparation of such desserts must be approached very seriously, because one wrong action can completely ruin the final result.
However, do not immediately cook something grand. For starters, you can bake a simple biscuit or sand cake. These desserts will appeal to so many. Sponge cake in combination with a soft and gentle curd cream will force many to abandon the diet and try at least a piece of dessert. The shortcake and pancake cake also have their fans.
Sponge cake with curd cream and fruit
What do you need?
For biscuit:
- Starch - 2 tbsp.
- Flour - 400 g.
- Eggs - 10 pieces.
- Baking powder - 1 des.l.
- Sugar - 400 g.
For cream:
- Gelatin - 2 tbsp.
- Cottage cheese - 800 g.
- Sugar - 2 tbsp.
- Milk - 100 ml.
- Cream (35%) - 1 l.
- Vanilla sugar - 2 tbsp.
Impregnation:
- Cognac - 100 ml.
- Water - 300 ml.
- Sugar - 2 tbsp.
Fruits:
- Canned peaches - 1 can.
- Banana - 3 pieces.
- Canned Cherry - 1 cup.
- Kiwi - 3 pieces.
- Gelatin - 2 tbsp.
Cooking cake
Sponge cake with curd cream and fruit is an almost perfect combination of ingredients for a confectionery. Everyone loves this cake, without exception - both adults and children. Usually a cake-sponge cake with curd cream and fruits does not stay long in the refrigerator. Due to its delicate taste, it is quickly eaten. We will use one of the cake recipes with curd cream and fruits and bake this dessert ourselves.
First you need to put the gelatin in a bowl and pour milk for about an hour. It is not necessary to warm milk, it should be cold.
We turn to the preparation of biscuit dough for a cake with curd cream and fruits. Separate the yolks from the proteins. Add sugar to the bowl with the yolks and beat well until white with a mixer. Proteins can also be whipped with a mixer, but it is advisable to do this with a whisk, since it contributes to a better saturation of proteins with oxygen. In addition, the mixer can spoil the protein, which will lead to its wateriness. After whipping, mix the yolks and squirrels together. Without sudden movements, from the bottom up, gently mix both masses using a tablespoon or spatula.
Sift through a sieve mixed with starch and baking powder of premium wheat flour and add to the egg mass. Mix gently from bottom to top with a tablespoon. Sponge cake dough with curd cream and fruit is cooked. Now you need to bake it in the oven. To do this, you must first cover it with special baking paper, slightly larger than the baking sheet, so that its walls are also covered with paper.
Baking biscuit
Pour the cooked biscuit dough into a baking sheet, smooth with a spatula and place in the oven for thirty minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
While biscuit is baked for a cake with curd cream and fruits, it is necessary to prepare syrup, which will definitely need to soak cakes. Boil water in a small saucepan, add sugar and completely dissolve it. Then add cognac, stir again and remove the saucepan with syrup from the heat.
After the biscuit, prepared according to the recipe from the photo of the cake with curd cream, is baked, it must be removed from the oven. Then, without taking it out of the baking sheet, pour abundantly about half of the prepared syrup. Give it a good soak and turn the biscuit to the other side. Soak the biscuit on the other side with the remaining syrup. Sponge cake for cake with curd cream and fruit, soaked in syrup, leave until completely cooled and only then cut with a sharp large knife into two cake layers of equal thickness.
Cooking cream
To prepare a delicious and homemade cream, you must first beat the cottage cheese with a blender, or you can simply rub it through a small kitchen sieve so that there are no lumps left. Add half the indicated amount of sugar and mix. Dissolve the gelatin, well soaked for an hour, over low heat, not allowing boiling. Enter gelatin into whipped cottage cheese.
You need to whip the cream. To better beat them, you need to cool them well in the refrigerator. Then quickly beat with a mixer at maximum speed, gradually adding the remaining sugar.
Then immediately combine the curd and cream mass and mix them. It remains only to peel bananas and kiwi or any other fruits and cut them into slices. Put a glass of canned pitted cherries in a colander so that the glass is excess liquid.
Cake making
We start to collect sponge cake. This is most conveniently done in the same form in which the biscuit was baked. To easily get the finished product, on the bottom of the form you need to lay a cling film.
Gently place one sponge cake on the bottom. Put about half of the prepared cream on top and smooth it with a spatula. Next, spread the sliced banana in one layer over the entire surface of the cream. Between them place the berries of canned cherries.
Cover the top with a second biscuit cake and gently squeeze it so that the cream from the lower cake can seep between the fruits and soak the second cake. Lubricate the upper biscuit cake with the remaining half of the cream, not forgetting to postpone a small amount for the decoration of the sides of the cake. The most pleasant part remained - decorating the cake with fruit. Slices of canned peaches and thin slices of kiwi and banana spread on the surface of the cake.
Melt the soaked gelatin over a fire and add the canned peach syrup. Stir well and pour the fruits laid out on a biscuit cake. Place the finished product in the refrigerator for ten hours. The cream thickens and holds together two cakes well, and the jelly hardens.
Then get a biscuit cake with curd cream and fruits from the refrigerator and cut in portions. Such a cake is a great addition to a solemn event and to an ordinary family tea party.
Shortbread homemade cake with curd cream: a recipe with a photo
Korzhi:
- Flour - 4 cups.
- Eggs - 4 pieces.
- Butter - 1 pack.
- Sugar - 6 tablespoons
Cream:
- Fat cottage cheese - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 1.5 cups.
- Milk - 1 cup.
- Lemon.
- Orange.
- Cream - 1 cup.
- Water - 1/3 cup.
- Gelatin - 2 tbsp.
Decoration:
- Strawberry - 1 cup.
- Raspberries - 1 cup.
Cooking process
Homemade shortcake with curd cream and fruit is easy to prepare. You need to bake two sand cakes. Get eggs and butter from the refrigerator in advance. Place a pack of softened butter in a deep bowl. Sift wheat flour to it, add sugar. Rub it with your hands to the state of an oily grain. Add chicken eggs. Knead soft dough with quick movements. Wrap the dough for the cake with curd cream and fruit in a plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for an hour.
Getting started baking
Divide the chilled dough into two identical parts. Roll each one thinly, put them on two baking sheets and send to the oven for baking. Bake until they have a beautiful golden color at a temperature of 180 degrees. Ready to take out of the oven and let cool.
Prepare a cream using a cake recipe with curd cream and fruit (photo in the article). First, in a separate small bowl, soak the gelatin in cold water for about forty minutes. Wash the lemon thoroughly, wipe and grate the zest with it on a fine grater.
Wipe fat cottage cheese through a fine sieve and put in a bowl. Add cream, milk, lemon zest, sugar, lemon and orange juice. Melt the soaked gelatin in a water bath and add to the curd. Beat the cream into a lush mass with a blender.
Making a cake
Remove cooled sand cakes from baking sheets. Use a medium-sized lid as a shape and cut three circles from each cake. Place the first circle on a flat surface and grease with cream. Cover with a second cake and gently squeeze. Thus, alternating cakes and cream, form the whole cake. Send it in the refrigerator for four hours for impregnation.
After taking out the cake, apply another layer of cream on top, put chopped and whole berries of raspberries and strawberries. Decorate the cake in the refrigerator again. Fruits can be chosen for such a cake to your liking.
Pancake cake
Dough:
- Flour - 1.5 cups.
- Milk - 500 ml.
- Baking powder - 0.5 tsp
- Sugar - 2 tbsp.
- Salt - 1/3 tsp
- Oil - 2 tbsp.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
Cream:
- Mascarpone cheese - 900 g.
- Fat cream - 500 ml.
- Powdered Sugar - 200 g
Fruits:
- Canned peaches - 1 jar.
- Any fruit (optional) - 1/2 cup.
Cooking
Such a cake with fruits and cream from curd cheese will surely appeal to everyone who loves pancakes and often cooks them. First you need to cook pancakes. Beat eggs and sugar with a blender. Pour in milk, salt and beat again. Add and sift the sifted flour mixed with baking powder a little. Last pour oil into the dough and beat again. The dough for a cake with cream of curd cheese should be uniform and without lumps.
Frying pancakes
From the prepared dough in a preheated frying pan with oil, fry the pancakes on both sides until rosy.
Now you can do the preparation of cream cheese curd for cake. Beat the mascarpone cheese, cream and powdered sugar with a mixer until the cream becomes very thick. The spoon in it should stand.
Open a can of peaches and put them in a colander. When all the liquid has drained, cut them into small pieces. Now, from all the ingredients obtained, you need to collect a pancake cake with cream and fruit filling.
Pancake cake assembly
You need to take a rectangular baking dish with high sides. Cover its bottom with food-grade film so that the ends of the film hang down from the sides. We spread pancakes on the entire surface so that the edges hang from the walls of the form. From the inside, grease with cream cheese curd. Then fill the form to the top with rolled up pancakes stuffed with cream and peach slices. All tubes placed in the mold are also coated with cream.
Wrap the top row of rolled pancakes in pancakes hanging from the walls. Then cover with the ends of the cling film, slightly press down and place in the refrigerator for three hours. After cooling, remove the cake from the refrigerator, unfold the plastic wrap and transfer to a beautiful dish.
Garnish the cake with cream on top. You can also use any fruit.
As you can see, nothing complicated. First we made pancakes for the cake and cream from the curd cheese, decorating the finished dessert with canned and fresh fruits, we collected a delicious and fragrant pancake cake. We hope that not only pancake lovers will like it, but also many sweet tooths.
At first glance, it seems that a pancake cake cannot compete with a biscuit or sand cake. The lack of soft and tender dough makes many people ignore this recipe. However, do not underestimate the pancake cake.
If you prepare the base according to the recipe and use only fresh ingredients, then the pancakes are very tender and tasty. Filling them with peaches and covering the whole dessert with a layer of cream, you can even create a very tasty and unusual cake from simple pancakes.
Following the above recipes, you can cook at home three different cakes, which will be combined only with delicious curd cream and fruits. Such a dessert will appeal to all family members, because the cream gives the cakes a mild flavor. At the same time, recipes can be supplemented at your discretion. For example, add those fruits that you like more, and so on.
With each new preparation, the process will go easier, and the final result will come out more and more perfect. Therefore, do not be afraid to add something new to already proven recipes. This will help not only to diversify the dessert, but also to create something unique. Do not forget that a delicious dessert is not blindly following instructions, but a whole art.