Many of us love sweets. But not everyone agrees to use dubious store goodies, where palm is used instead of butter, and eggs and milk are replaced with powder. It’s better to make the dessert yourself. Think it's so hard? Condensed milk will greatly facilitate your task. After all, this product is not only tasty, but also healthy. It can be added both to dough for cakes and to cream. We suggest you bake homemade cake with condensed milk. Recipes with photos you will find in this article. We grouped our selection into categories:
- Simple cakes, the preparation of which will take you a maximum of half an hour.
- Products in which condensed milk is used for cream or impregnation.
- Cakes in which cakes are made from dough in concentrated sweet milk.
Cakes without baking
Let's start with the simplest. Such recipes for cakes with condensed milk do not even oblige us to turn on the oven. It will be replaced by ... a refrigerator. But let's look at a step by step and very short recipe.
Step No. 1. We break a kilogram of factory cookies (the cheapest) into pieces. Especially don’t be zealous - we don’t need baby.
Step number 2. In a dry pan, fry a glass of peanuts. We clean the nuts from the brown film. Knead them with a rolling pin - also not finely.
Step number 3. Mix nuts and cookies.
Step number 4. In a separate bowl, pour a can of condensed milk.
Step number 5. Further, the recipe for a cake with condensed milk requires us to bring 200 grams of butter to room temperature. This can also be done in the microwave in the “Defrost” mode.
Step number 6. Thoroughly knead the butter with condensed milk.
Step number 7. To make the cream softer, we introduce fat cream (200 milliliters) in its composition. Beat with a whisk or a mixer at low speeds, because we do not want to get sweet butter as a result.
How to assemble a cake without baking
So, we have two bowls: with cream and cookies with nuts. What do we prescribe to do next a cake with condensed milk recipe? At home, the product is assembled as follows.
Step number 8. Pour cookies with nuts into the cream. Mix everything thoroughly.
Step number 9. Give shape to the product. We spread the cling film on the board. We spread the resulting mass along its entire length in the middle. Turn the ends of the film. We hide the cake in the refrigerator for the night.
Step number 10. Before serving, remove the cling film. The surface of the cake can be decorated with grated chocolate or berries. But even in a simple sprinkle of coconut and powdered sugar, such a product looks elegant.
The anthill cake recipe with condensed milk
Let's complicate the task a bit. There are many recipes for the Anthill cake. It is prepared on the basis of purchased cookies, and corn sticks, and from fragments of shortcrust pastry or chopped biscuit cakes. The cake got its name because of its resemblance to an anthill. The base is laid out with a slide and filled with cream, which, solidifying, and fixes the form. Here we offer you a recipe for the Anthill cake with condensed milk, which uses cookies - though not the cheapest, but shortbread, such as Kurabye. A pound of such products do not break very finely with our hands. But first, boil half a glass of poppy with boiling water. After about an hour, the grains will swell. Then it will be necessary to carefully filter out the water and pass the poppy through a meat grinder (or pestle in a mortar). In another bowl, steal a handful of raisins in the same way. We put the poppy seeds in a saucepan, mix with two tablespoons of plain or baked milk and 70 grams of honey. Cook for about 10 minutes until thickened, stirring constantly. Add strained raisins. Three zest from one lemon. Pour 50 grams of pine nuts. Mix.
Putting the Anthill
How to make cream for cake with condensed milk? The recipe with a photo clearly shows this. We need to make a can of condensed milk. This process is long and, in addition, fraught with danger. The tin can just explode. So we recommend buying condensed milk already cooked in the store. In consistency, it is much denser, and in color it resembles a toffee. Put the milk in a bowl and rub it thoroughly with 150 grams of soft butter.
The lemon, from which we removed the zest, does not disappear! Squeeze its juice into the cream. Mix well again. Pour cookies and prepared poppy seeds into the cream. After kneading, spread on a dish, giving the design the shape of an anthill. We put in the cold for several hours to soak. We decorate our "Anthill" with grated chocolate.
Tiramisu in the Slavic manner
And let's make this famous Italian cake ... with condensed milk. The recipe with the photo tells how to do without mascarpone cheese. Break four eggs into a small saucepan, add one hundred grams of sugar and 70 g of cocoa powder. We put in a water bath. When the mixture turns into a homogeneous whole, remove it from the fire and cool it a little. Add 200 grams of butter and a jar of boiled condensed milk. Knead with a mixer (work at low speeds). The form in which we will lay out Tiramisu is lubricated with butter. We make a cup of strong black coffee. Pour a little liquor, dessert wine or cognac into it. We have to have beautiful whole cookies on hand. The recipe for this Tiramisu requires the use of Savoyardi. But we can do with half a kilogram of Ladies' Fingers cookies. Each thing is quickly dipped in coffee and laid out in a mold. When the bottom layer is filled in this way, we smear it with cream. In total, two or three layers should come out (depending on the size of the form). We put in the refrigerator for the night. Garnish with whipped cream and sprinkle with grated chocolate.
Chess Board Cake. Dough
The guests are on the doorstep, but you have nothing to treat them to? A step-by-step recipe for a cake with condensed milk “Chessboard” will help to rectify the situation. First, let's see what we have in the refrigerator. The cake does not need delicacies, but only basic products and ... half a can of condensed milk. Even before preparing the dough, turn on the oven - let it warm up to 200 degrees.
Now the first step. We’ll drive three eggs into a bowl. And knead them with condensed milk.
The second step is to prepare the bulk component of the dough. Sift a glass of flour, mix it with two teaspoons of cookie powder.
Third step. We add the loose mass to the egg and milk. Knead until all the lumps disappear and you get a smooth dough. How to bake it and how to make cake with condensed milk cake, the recipe explains without hiding.
Fifth step. The form (preferably with detachable sides) is covered with oiled parchment. Pour the dough. Bake at a temperature of about 200 degrees for five to seven minutes. The cake should be cooled in the ajar oven.
Chess Board Cake. Cream and assembly
Let's just say: cakes are very sweet, almost like honey gingerbread. And so that this cake with condensed milk does not seem too cloying, the recipe recommends preparing a gentle cream of whipped cream. In order to interlayer cakes and decorate the top of the product, you need to take 250 milliliters of this product. We choose the cream most fat, at least 33 percent. They need to be very cooled - so they will beat faster. You can also use store whipped cream from a spray can. But it is expensive and not very useful, since such a product has stabilizers and emulsifiers.
So, the first step. Pour chilled cream into the mixer bowl. We work first at low speed, gradually increasing it. Along the way, pour one or two tablespoons of powdered sugar. The cream should be a little sweetened.
Go to the next step. The cooled thick cake is cut lengthwise into four circles.
Step Three We coat each of them with whipped cream. By the way, you can add some essence (rum, cognac, vanilla, almond) to this cream, or simply rub the lemon peel.
The final fourth. We also whip the sides and the top of the cake with condensed milk with whipped cream. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of the finished product can take its rightful place in your cookbook! We recommend placing a dessert in the form of a chessboard. How to do it? Read on.
Chess Board Cake. Glaze and decoration
For those who do not know what a water bath is, let us explain what the essence of this culinary process is. We need two pots - bigger and smaller. The second container with handles should hold on to the edges of the first and do not touch its bottom. We put a large pot of water on the fire. Install a smaller capacity. The fluid should touch its bottom and sides, but not overflow. In this small saucepan we break a hundred-gram bar of dark chocolate without any fillers and additives. Add one tablespoon of butter and cream. Chocolate will melt from the heat of hot water in a large pan. Knead it with cream and butter until a homogeneous substance is obtained. But if you have a microwave at your disposal, you can make frosting faster and easier. Just put a plate with the indicated ingredients in the unit and turn on the “Heating” mode. How does the recipe recommend decorating a cake with condensed milk? At home, we can simply pour the still warm glaze on top of the product. But if you have a culinary bag, then we can create a real chessboard. With a knife, draw the upper surface of the cake into cells. Half of them are left white (whipped cream coating). The rest we lubricate with chocolate icing. We put in the refrigerator so that the ganache freezes.
Cooking cakes in a pan
Sometimes people who want to cook desserts at home are stopped by the lack of an oven. But because of such a trifle, one should not refuse the fascinating process of culinary creativity. After all, you can cook a cake with condensed milk in a pan. The recipe for this delicious dessert is quite simple. Pour the contents of a can of condensed milk into a deep bowl, drive in the egg and stir. We begin to sift the flour (in general, about 600 grams will be required). At the end, pour a bag of powder for cookies. Knead the dough thoroughly. We divide it into eight parts. Each roll out in a circle the size of a pan. Fry the cakes without adding oil. They should become a golden brown hue. While they cool, prepare the cream. Pour 750 milliliters of milk into a saucepan. We beat in two eggs, add 300 grams of sugar, a bag of vanillin and five tablespoons of flour. Knead and put the pan on a small fire. After boiling milk, cook for another five minutes. When the mass thickens, turn off the heat and introduce into the pan a new ingredient - 200 grams of butter. Beat this cream with a mixer and coat them with all eight cakes. Decorate the product with ground nuts and grated chocolate.
The recipe for the cake "Napoleon" with condensed milk
Many countries take the honor of inventing this delicious cake with pancakes thin as pancakes, soaked in delicate cream. There are recipes for "Napoleon" from shortbread and puff pastry. The dessert gives the same scope for imagination to culinary experts in the field of cream manufacture. Custard, butter, whipped cream, sour cream, curd ... We offer you a cream on condensed milk. Such a cake in Western Europe is known as the "Marseilles", and in our country - as a variation of "Napoleon". After all, the classic recipe involves a layer of cakes with custard.
We will make cakes from shortcrust pastry. To do this, mix a pack of soft margarine with two eggs. Gradually add 300 grams of flour. Knead the dough. Let’s introduce two tablespoons of cold boiled water and one sour cream into it. Beat the dough with a mixer and leave for half an hour. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. We divided the “rested” dough into 6-7 parts. One of them is immediately rolled into thin cake and laid in a parchment-covered form. We pierce with a fork in several places so that the dough does not swell. Cook in the oven for about 10-15 minutes. While the first cake is baking, roll the next one.
When they are all ready, proceed to whipping the cream. With a mixer, this process will take you about five minutes. Just beat a can of condensed milk with 200 grams of butter. If desired, the cream can be aromatized with various essences, as well as add instant coffee, cocoa, banana puree or lemon zest to it. We coat all the cakes well, put them in the refrigerator to soak.
"Elizabeth"
As you can see, in most recipes for condensed milk cakes, milk is used to make cream. "Elizabeth" is no exception. But the cream for him is not a simple mixture of condensed milk and butter. Let's study the recipe in more detail.
Bake the usual sponge cake (white). When it has completely cooled, we divide it into three layers.
Getting to the cream. Drive two yolks into a saucepan, add 50 milliliters of cold water. Stir a little whisk. Add a can of condensed milk and put the saucepan on the smallest fire. Stirring constantly, cook until thickened. Cool a little and start whipping. Without turning off the mixer, add 400 grams of oil in small portions. If the cream came out too thick, saturate the cakes with sugar syrup, to which we add liquor or cognac.
Elizaveta cake can be decorated in several ways.
Option 1
We add coconut shavings to the cream, which remains after smearing the cakes, knead, spread the top of the product, spread the “Raffaello” candy around the perimeter.
Option 2
Cut peeled kiwi and banana into thin slices. We spread on the surface of the cake greased with cream. Garnish with whipped cream.
Option 3
We use boiled condensed milk mixed with instant coffee or cocoa powder. Using a cooking syringe, we plant brown roses on the beige surface of the product.
Chocolate cake
And finally, we will give an interesting recipe for tender biscuit cakes, which include condensed milk. Separate the squirrels from six eggs, set them to cool. Leave the yolks at room temperature. Beat a can of condensed milk with 130 grams of butter. Add there the yolks and a handful of finely ground hazelnuts. Melt black or milk chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave. Add to the mass, whisk with a mixer. Let's start sifting flour - just a couple of tablespoons. We get chilled proteins. Add a pinch of salt and citric acid. Beat until solid peaks. Carefully inject the protein foam into the yolk mass so that they do not fall. Lubricate the form with vegetable oil, pour the batter. Bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Cream for shortcakes prepare with condensed milk and sour cream. The cake recipe prescribes to lay the lactic acid product on cheesecloth folded in several layers. When whey drains from sour cream, mix it with condensed milk. We smear the cakes, not forgetting the sides. We decorate at our discretion (you can as in the photo above).