Sometimes even an experienced housewife has the idea to cook something as simple as possible, but at the same time beautiful and tasty. For example, a cake. A simple recipe should consist of available components, and the entire process should take a minimum of time and effort. Do you think such dishes will fit except for a snack? And no! There are many simple cake recipes that will look very decent even on the festive table.
In this article we will consider the most beautiful, delicious and inexpensive cakes that are not difficult to prepare.
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How to save time and effort? There are many ways, the most common of which involves the use of semi-finished products. For example, you can not bake cakes, but use ready-made ones, and you just need to dilute the cream from the pack with water and boil it. But often the effect of such products is disappointing. It is better to go the other way - to make a cake yourself. A simple recipe, of course, may contain ready-made ingredients, but not consist entirely of them.
"Quick Napoleon"
To make such a cake, you will need any puff pastry cookies. Well-known "Ears" are perfect for everyone. You can use any form in which the cake will be formed. Spread it with cling film or foil.
We will need 700 g of cookies. Set aside one quarter, break it into pieces, roll with a rolling pin. The resulting crumb is necessary for decoration. A good cream will complement this cake recipe.
It’s easy to cook according to the following recipe. Beat with a mixer 300 ml of boiled condensed milk, gradually add a packet of top butter to it. Before use, put the oil on a table so that it softens at room temperature. The cream will turn out smooth and uniform. In a bowl, mix the “Ears” and cream, carefully fill out the form. Put the cake in the refrigerator for an hour, then take it out, turn it over and cover the top and sides with crumbs. This cake is in no way inferior to other varieties of "Napoleon", which would have to tinker with much more.
Gingerbread Castle
Surely, this recipe for a simple homemade cake has been familiar to many since childhood. To prepare it, you will need 1 kg of small gingerbread. If you come across large ones, cut them into pieces along. A cream of bananas is perfect for this dessert. Beat with a mixer a glass of fat sour cream, add 2-3 tablespoons of sugar. Mash two bananas with a fork and mix with cream. Cook a large dish. Dip each gingerbread into the cream and put them in a slide, denser to each other in the shape of a castle. After a couple of hours, the cake can be served to the table.
"Anthill"
This cake is sometimes found under the name "Dembelsky", because in the army for many it is the only option for dessert. To prepare it, take 800 g of the simplest cookies with baked milk, a can of condensed milk and a pack of butter. Break the cookies into pieces, mix with butter and condensed milk, put on a plate a slide and let stand in the refrigerator for half an hour. This dessert turns out to be surprisingly tasty, and it looks aesthetically pleasing. No wonder they say that beauty is in simplicity.
This recipe for a simple cake at home can be improved so that it will look decent even on a holiday. Generously fill it with melted chocolate, and it will play in a completely different way. And for decoration, you can use cocktail cherries, roasted nuts, candied fruits.
Curd Banana Cake
Many had a chance to try such simple cakes in childhood. Recipes with photos of cottage cheese desserts often cause nostalgic feelings. In the Soviet Union, this dessert was very popular among young mothers and caring grandmothers.
For its preparation, beat 0.5 kg of cottage cheese with a blender, adding sugar and cream to taste. Curd mass should be quite thick. Prepare 300 grams of any square or rectangular sweet cakes. Warm a glass of milk with vanilla sugar. Dipping cookies in milk, put it on the foil, forming a track about 10 x 30 cm in size. Lay the cottage cheese tightly on top, giving it the shape of a house. On both sides, make walls of cookies dipped in milk. In cross section, such a cake usually has a triangular shape. Make this simple dessert, and your work will be appreciated not only by children, but also by adults.
"Kaleidoscope"
Under this name is not a very ordinary cake. True, sometimes it is called differently - “Broken Glass”, but such a name does not seem appetizing to everyone. Prepare it from multi-colored jelly.
In advance, set 3-4 packs of multi-colored jelly in different containers. When it completely hardens, cut into cubes. Beat 500 ml of sour cream with 1.5 tbsp. sugar, enter steamed gelatin, stir, add colored cubes of jelly. 300 grams of biscuit cookies cut into pieces. put in a form and leave to harden overnight. When you turn the form over, the biscuit will be on the bottom.
Similar recipes for tasty and uncomplicated jelly cakes are especially good in the summer, when you don’t feel like bothering with the oven.
Crazy Crazy Cake
Such pastries will please even those who, for some reason, do not eat animal products. In some cookbooks, this cake, a simple recipe that came to us from the USA, is hidden under the name "Vegan Cake". In its composition - only plant products.
Mix 1.5 tbsp. flour, 1 tbsp. sugar and 1 tsp. soda. Add to the mixture 5 tbsp. l cocoa. Separately connect 1 tbsp. water, 0.5 tbsp. refined oil and 1.5 tbsp. l vinegar. Combine both parts, stir and pour into a dry form. You need to bake cakes in a preheated oven, checking the readiness with a skewer. The cake is very lush, beautiful and fragrant. You can decorate it with any favorite cream.
Lazy cake "Kiev"
If you are looking for a simple birthday cake recipe, this one can be a lifesaver. And this recipe can be useful to those who do not have an oven.
Blend 250 g of shortbread cookies (for example, "Anniversary"). Add 100 g of softened butter and 100 g of condensed milk. Melt in a microwave or in a water bath a 100-gram bar of milk chocolate and also add to the cookie dough. Divide the resulting mass into 2 parts. Cover the bottom of the detachable form with cling film, carefully distribute half the mass. Cover with a film and blind the second cake. Submit the form in the cold for 15 minutes.
At this time, break with your hands 200 grams of Meringue cookies or any other meringue-based cookie. Fry a handful of walnuts or peanuts in a dry pan. Beat condensed milk (1 b.) With butter (150 g), and then carefully add the meringue crumbs and nuts. It's time to collect the cake. On the first cake, put half the cream, cover with the second cake and again distribute the cream. You can decorate such a cake with nuts or tiny meringues. To taste it is very reminiscent of the classic "Kiev", and the preparation will take you only half an hour.
Microwave cake
Did you know that not only in the oven can you prepare a delicious simple cake? The recipe with the photo below will help you make sure that even an ordinary microwave can be used for this purpose.
First, lightly beat 2 eggs with a fork, and then send exactly half a glass of the following components to them:
- vegetable oil;
- milk;
- cocoa;
- sugar.
At the very end, pour a glass of flour mixed with a pinch of baking powder. It takes 5 minutes to bake the cake in 900 W. You do not need to get it right away, let it rest for another 10 minutes - then it can be easily removed from the mold. Cut the finished biscuit into 2 cakes, coat with custard, decorate as you wish.
You can quickly make custard according to the following recipe. Pound 2 yolks and 80 g of sugar, gradually add 3 tbsp. l flour and 400 g of milk. Microwave to maximum power for 1 minute. Remove, mix, set again for a minute. On average, you may need 4-5 minutes.
Pancake cake
A simple recipe, which we will consider later, recommends frying cake cakes in a pan. And to make the cake even more beautiful, we will make chocolate pancakes - they are simply amazingly combined with snow-white cream. To prepare the dough, mix a glass of flour with four tablespoons of cocoa and half a glass of sugar. Add a pinch of baking powder. Separately stir 350 ml of warm milk with one egg and a small amount of refined vegetable oil. Make a recess in the pile and pour liquid into it. Beat well with a mixer.
Pancakes need to be baked in a heated pan. Make them thicker and thicker than regular pancakes, so the cake will taste better.
As a cream for such a treat, you can use ready-made whipped cream in a bottle. Cross the pancake cakes, grease the sides and top of the cake. Pour melted dark chocolate on top of the treat and garnish with fruit slices.
Condensed milk cakes
And here is another wonderful recipe for making a cake using a frying pan. It is fundamentally different from pancake, because the dough for it is used not bulk, but dense, which needs to be rolled out.
Knead the dough out of 1 b. condensed milk, 1 egg and 500 g of flour. Add baking powder or slaked soda, knead thoroughly, roll a lump. If necessary, flour can be added. Cut the dough into 7-8 pieces, roll it thinly with a rolling pin to fit the pan. Fry the cakes on both sides, let cool and form a cake. Perfect for such a cream cheese cake. It is prepared very easily - you just need to beat with a mixer 200 g of mascarpone and the same amount of butter, and then add powdered sugar to taste.
As you can see, there are many desserts that can be easily prepared at home. They help not only save time and effort, but also begin to familiarize young housewives with home cooking. If you are just starting to learn the art of confectionery, first of all, learn simple recipes - this will be a wonderful start for more complex techniques.