Cranberry cake is a sweet and sour dessert that is popular among culinary experts. A treat is often prepared before Christmas. The dish is complemented with cream of sour cream, chocolate, fruit. Jelly is made from berries and added to the cake. The article tells about several options for cooking.
Recipe with sour cream
The basis for cranberry cake consists of the following products:
- Half a small spoonful of soda with vinegar.
- The same amount of salt.
- Four glasses of wheat flour.
- 300 g butter.
- 100 ml of cold milk.
For the cream you will need:
- Two glasses of granulated sugar.
- The same amount of cranberries.
- 300 g of sour cream.
Cooking
First you need to make the dough. Triturated butter with flour. Add milk, salt, soda with vinegar. The components are mixed. The dough should have a soft texture. It is divided into 6 pieces. Each part is leveled and baked in the oven for ten minutes. Sour cream is combined with a glass of granulated sugar. The berries are chopped. For this, a meat grinder is used. Then cranberries must be combined with a glass of granulated sugar. The layers of dessert are covered alternately with sour cream and berry mass. The top layer of the cake is not coated. The treat is left in a warm place for a while. Then they put it in the refrigerator for ten hours under oppression. Then the dessert should be removed, covered with a mass of sour cream.
Cranberry cake is left for 60 minutes to soak in the cream.
Dessert with Mousse
The composition of the biscuit includes:
- Three eggs.
- Starch - 60 grams.
- Flour - 60 grams.
- Vanillin.
- Sugar sand (180 g).
To make jelly, you need:
- Gelatin - 15 grams.
- Water (200 ml).
- The same amount of granulated sugar.
- Cranberry Berries - 300 grams.
For mousse you need these products:
- Cream (about 500 milliliters).
- Three large spoons of cranberry puree.
- Sugar powder (same amount).
- Gelatin - 10 grams.
Making dessert
First you need to make a sponge cake for cranberry cake. Proteins are ground with sugar sand. A mixer is used for this. Then the yolks are placed in the mass. The components are whipped. Add flour and starch to the dough. Cake is baked from it. While the biscuit is cooling, the berries must be combined with water and sugar sand. Boil the mixture for five minutes. Then the liquid is drained. Cranberries are again set on fire. Then it needs to be cooled and ground until mashed. Gelatin is put in the resulting mass. Stir this product until it dissolves. Then the jelly is cooled.
To prepare the mousse, gelatin is combined with two large tablespoons of water. Dissolved in a finished cranberry puree. The mass needs to be cooled. Cream triturated with vanilla and sugar sand. A mixer is used for this. In the mixture, you need to gradually add the berry puree. The components whip and cool again. On the basis for dessert lay a lot of cream. Then put the jelly.
Cranberry mousse cake can be decorated with fresh berries.
White Chocolate Cream Dessert
The basis consists of such products:
- Butter in an amount of 250 g.
- A large spoonful of granulated sugar.
- Cold water - 50 milliliters.
- Flour in the amount of 400 grams.
- Egg.
- Salt - 1 pinch.
For the filling, 300 grams of cranberry berries are used.
Glaze consists of the following products:
- Cream (one glass).
- Two white chocolate bars.
- Butter - 70 grams.
How to make cranberry cake with white chocolate?
This is described in the next chapter.
Recipe
60 minutes before starting cooking, you need to freeze the oil. Then it is crushed, combined with sugar sand, pre-sifted flour, salt. The mass must be even. It is mixed with egg and water. The base is covered with a film and put into the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
Berries should be put in a colander. Dip in boiling water. Then cranberries are placed in cold water. It is taken out and dried with a napkin. Cream needs to be warmed up. Combine with pieces of chocolate bar and butter. Products must be melted with a water bath. Stir and remove from the stove. Wait for the mass to cool.
The dough is placed in a mold covered with a layer of parchment. Bake in the oven for twenty minutes. Cakes are cooled and berries, icing are placed on it. Prescription cranberry cake with white chocolate should be stored in the refrigerator for several hours.
Holiday dessert
The composition of the biscuit includes:
- Three eggs.
- Sugar sand - 10 large spoons.
- As much milk powder.
- Half a pack of baking powder.
- Vanillin.
- Flour - 10 large spoons.
For jelly from berries you will need:
- Cranberries - 300 grams.
- Sugar sand.
- Gelatin (4 g).
- Sour cream - 50 grams.
Apricot mousse requires:
- Cream (200 ml).
- Sugar sand.
- A pound of apricots.
- Gelatin - 9 g.
For decoration you will need:
- 200 grams of cream.
- A pack of thickener.
- Pomegranate seeds
- Sugar powder.
- Mint leaves.
50 milliliters of pomegranate syrup mixed with water are used to impregnate a biscuit.
For the preparation of the Winter Fairy Cranberry Cake, according to the recipe with apricots, the fruits are washed, pitted and ground in a sugar blender. Gelatin is diluted in water, heated. Combine with fruit mass. The mixture is placed in a refrigerator.
Cranberries are sprinkled with sugar sand, brought to a boil.
Then it is wiped with a sieve. Gelatin should be combined with water and heated. Mix with cranberries. Cool and clean in the refrigerator. Eggs are ground with sugar, powdered milk, vanilla. Add flour, baking powder. The mass is baked in the oven for ten minutes. The biscuit should be cooled, divided into 2 pieces. The lower layer is moistened with impregnation.
Jelly is ground in a blender with sour cream. The mass is placed in a pastry bag and poured onto the surface of the cake. Then put the second biscuit. It is covered with syrup. The cream is combined with sugar powder and a thickener. The components are whipped. Divided into 2 parts. Half the mass must be mixed with apricots. Place on the surface of the dish. Then put the rest of the cream.
Cranberry cake sprinkled with pomegranate, mint. Clean in the refrigerator.