Few housewives love to make cream cakes. Whether it’s for children, for a birthday or a wedding anniversary, but many prefer to buy a ready-made dessert, citing a lack of time. We will tell you how to prepare a delicious and light cake in just a couple of hours, having considered several options.
Bake Boston Cake
Perhaps the best recipe for novice cooks is this one. It doesn’t take much time to prepare it, the ingredients are the most common, but at the same time, guests will simply beg to share the secret of the masterpiece. And the name of this masterpiece is Boston cream cake, we’ll start working on it right now. The cakes of this treat are biscuit, and for their preparation it is required to take the following ingredients:
- wheat flour - 125 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs;
- granulated sugar - 150 g;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon.
The secret to mixing components
In the original, peanut butter is added to such a biscuit-cream cake , but if the specified component was not at hand, use ordinary sunflower. To start, prepare three deep bowls at once, as the components on the dough are mixed separately. Sift flour into one of the dishes, add baking powder and only 50 grams of sugar. And in another container, grind the yolks of 4 eggs with vegetable oil and lemon juice. We will also need squirrels, pour them into a third empty bowl, add the remaining sugar to them and beat to a wave-like peak with a mixer. Our biscuit cream cake should turn out to be incredibly tender, light and airy.
Cooking Biscuit
It is time to mix all the ingredients together. However, this process has its own sequence. First of all, carefully enter the third part of the protein composition to the yolks, mix gently and enter the rest of the whipped proteins gently . Now comes the crucial moment. The Boston cream cake should have a fluffy biscuit, so we introduce the flour composition to the egg mix so that the mass does not settle, while carefully mixing with a spoon or spatula.
Baking process
We will bake the biscuit in a round shape of medium diameter, so that it turns out to be quite high. Lay out the bottom of the form with parchment paper, slightly soaked in oil, but it is not necessary to lubricate the sides of the baking container. We put the form from the tests in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes. The readiness of the biscuit can always be checked with a toothpick. And here there is another secret. Our future cream cake will come out lush and tall for a feast for the eyes, if it is not removed from the mold hot. First, allow the base to cool, and then take it out, otherwise the biscuit risks noticeably settling.
Cream for Boston Cake
To prepare the cream, you will need the following ingredients:
- milk - 500 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pieces;
- butter - 50 g;
- granulated sugar - 100 g;
- vanilla pod (can be replaced with vanilla sugar);
- potato starch - 30 g.
To prepare the cream, we again need a small saucepan. Put eggs, granulated sugar and starch in a bowl, whisk the mass with a whisk. Add only half a glass of milk and stir a little again. Now you can pour the rest of the milk and put the saucepan on moderate heat. Now, without being distracted for a minute, stir the liquid composition all the time until you notice bubbles on the surface. Let the cream “vulcanize” for another two minutes, and only then the dish can be removed from the fire. Add butter and vanilla directly to the hot composition, stir again with a whisk. It remains to transfer the finished cream into a deep plate or bowl, cover with cling film to avoid unwanted crusting on the surface and wait for the composition to cool and thicken.
Cake making
During this time, the biscuit has already cooled down, without losing a bit of splendor. Remember, we agreed to choose a medium baking dish? The diameter of the mold should be in the range of 20-24 cm. In this case, our cream cake will be able to consist of three cakes. So, carefully and evenly cut the base across into three parts of equal thickness. Spread the cream on the bottom two parts of the cake, without pressing hard. Put the third cake on top, and we will begin to impregnate it with a completely different composition.
Chocolate glaze
In order to prepare chocolate icing, we need a stewpan, a small saucepan, dark chocolate and cream. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, breaking it into pieces to speed up the process, pour in the cream and try to stir the sweet mass all the time. When the consistency of the glaze becomes homogeneous, the composition can be considered ready. Now there is the finishing touch: pour the cream cake with icing so that the entire surface and sides are saturated. For the side surface, use a spoon or a wide knife to help. An unusually light cream cake is ready! It can be served immediately, because there is no need to wait until the cakes are saturated.
A quick recipe from ready-made dough for little sweet tooth
Today we do not mention the culinary masterpieces, quite laborious in preparation. Our task is to make a delicious dessert, while spending a minimum of effort. For the preparation of children's treats, we need the following ingredients:
- puff pastry - 2 sheets;
- fat cream - 400 g;
- Greek yogurt - 400 g;
- berries (any) - 250 g;
- powdered sugar - 6 teaspoons;
- gelatin - 5 g.
Cooking cake
Bake dough sheets for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. So that the dough does not rise too high, you can pierce it with a fork in several places. While the sheets are baking, you can do the cooking of the cream.
Cream should be whipped until hard, wavy peaks form, and then pour in powdered sugar. Dissolve gelatin in a small amount of water and pour into a cream in a small stream. Greek yogurt should be added a little, mixing the composition with a silicone spatula, and immediately after the introduction of yogurt, berries are added to the cream.
Preparing such a cake is very simple. On a finished sheet of dough, spread the cream in a thick layer, and then cover with another sheet of dough and sprinkle with powdered sugar. We recommend baking such a cream cake for girls. After all, every young sweetie especially loves to have as much tender and airy cream in the dessert as possible.
Very simple biscuit cake
If you are tired of food additives, chemical dyes and preservatives in baking, we recommend baking a very simple cream cake. This recipe has been popular for many years.
Here is a list of the ingredients that need to be prepared:
- premium wheat flour - a little less than a glass;
- fresh chicken egg - 4 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 1 cup;
- sweet breadcrumbs - 100-150 g;
- premium butter - 200 g;
- condensed milk (GOST) - ½ cans.
Cooking method
In a deep bowl, beat the eggs with sugar into a thick and lush mass. Carefully introduce the sifted flour in parts, do not beat, but mix gently so that the dough does not settle. Bake the biscuit in a preheated oven for 30 minutes. As we recommended a little earlier, it is necessary to remove the finished biscuit from the mold when it has cooled down, otherwise the cream cake will turn out not quite magnificent. Cut the biscuit into two layers and carefully cut the edges. Cut edges can be given to children, and you can dry and grind into sweet breadcrumbs. If you are still inexperienced in culinary art and not confident in your abilities, you can take a large diameter baking dish and bake 2 biscuits one after another.
The process of creating an oil cream and forming patterns
Beat with a mixer the condensed milk and butter, put the cream in the refrigerator. In order to give any part of the cream the necessary shade, you can use food cooking colors, cocoa powder, beetroot or carrot juice. It remains for us to draw up our simple masterpiece, having smeared the surface and side parts of the cakes with cream, and also to arm ourselves with a culinary syringe with various nozzles and form patterns in the form of leaflets, roses and various ornate decorations. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with sweet breadcrumbs and do not immediately serve the delicacy on the table, send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
By the way, multi-tiered wedding cream cakes are decorated with just such an oil cream with the addition of food colors. Culinary specialists especially respect this kind of cream for its ability to keep the shape of artful and intricate patterns well.
Have a nice tea party!