Napoleon is perhaps the most favorite cake of most sweet tooth. There are different options for its preparation, but today we want to tell you about how Napoleon is made on beer. The recipe is simple, so if you already have experience in making such a dessert, be sure to try this option. Such a cake never bothers and always pleases with the novelty of taste.
Why the recipe for beer?
The recipe for this delicious cake is known a long time ago, however, more and more new options for its preparation appear.
Traditionally, it is prepared from puff pastry, which can be done in several ways. You may ask, why do we propose to make a Napoleon cake on beer?
The answer is very simple. On beer, the most wonderful puff pastry is obtained, and without any effort, it flakes by itself. And the cake on such cakes comes out wonderful.
Napoleon Cake on Beer: Ingredients
To prepare the dough, we will get these products:
- Margarine - one pack (250 g).
- Wheat flour - two glasses.
- Beer - 100 ml.
For cream:
Butter - pack (200 g).
Milk - 300 g.
Sugar - 1 cup, vanilla.
Recipe
Let's look at how Napoleon is made on beer. Recipes with photos will help you understand this issue.
Take the flour and margarine and put them in a food processor, beat them to the state of large crumbs. Add beer to the batch and mix again. Next, knead the dough yourself with your hands, when it is ready, divide it into eight equal parts and remove it to rest in the refrigerator.
Custard
While our dough will cool, let's take a cream. They are used by different types. We are preparing a Napoleon cake on beer, with custard.
Take 300 grams of milk and pour into a saucepan. Pour sugar there and bring the mixture to a boil, then cook for about 30-40 minutes. At the very end, add vanillin (you can vanilla sugar).
We got a rather thick mass (like a thick jelly). Put it to cool.
Bake cakes
Let's start baking cakes. To do this, take out two balls from the refrigerator and roll out our dough. Cut out the desired shape of the cake from the reservoir. And put it on a baking sheet.
Bake to a barely golden color at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees. It takes about five or seven minutes. While one cake is baked, you can roll out the second - let it lie on the table and wait for its turn. About ten cakes are obtained from the taken amount of products. Scraps from them will be used to prepare crumbs for decoration. Napoleon on the beer is almost ready.
Making a cake
Finished cakes should cool slightly. Meanwhile, we will knock down our custard. We take out our mass from the refrigerator and begin the process itself. During whipping, we will gradually add the cooled milk. It turns out a very magnificent mass.
Our Napoleon (on beer, mind you!) Is almost ready. It remains only to collect it and smear it with cream. We take the dish, put the first cake on it and begin to apply the milk-cream mass. During the baking process, bubbles formed on the dough, but it does not matter. Feel free to crush them. Then spread the second cake on top and also apply the cream. So gradually collect the whole cake.
Next we need to make crumbs from the scraps. To do this, crush them with a rolling pin. That's all. Our Napoleon cake - on beer, with custard - is ready. It remains only to sprinkle it with crumbs on the sides and top.
The finished product needs only to be kept for a couple of hours at room temperature, allowing it to soak. And then you can safely put our Napoleon cake, prepared on beer, in the refrigerator. When infused, you can start tasting.
Another custard recipe
How to make a beer dough for Napoleon, we figured out. But I want to offer another custard recipe, because there are many options for its preparation. All of them differ only in the addition of individual components, however, this affects the taste. The tastier the cream, the better the cake.
So, we need such components:
1. Butter - 50 g.
2. Milk - half a liter.
3. Sugar is an incomplete glass.
4. Egg yolks - 3 pieces.
5. Starch or flour - two to three tablespoons.
6. Fat cream (not less than 35%) - 150 ml.
7. Half the vanilla pod.
Let's move on to cooking. Cut the vanilla pod in half and clean the seeds from one half. The second part can be put in an airtight box, and then used another time for cooking.
Pour milk into the dishes and pour exactly half the sugar, add the vanilla seeds and the half of the pod itself. Stir and bring to a boil. Then remove from heat and let it brew for half an hour. As the milk cools, it absorbs the aroma of vanilla and its taste.
Pour the sifted flour or starch into the container and add the remaining sugar. Mix the dry mixture with a whisk. The more you put starch or flour, the thicker the cream. Its consistency and sweetness are regulated. It all depends on your taste. Add the yolks to the mixture and mix.
From the milk you need to get the pod, then bring it back to a boil. Then pour the third part into a mixture of starch with an egg. Stir thoroughly with a whisk. And then, stirring continuously, pour in the rest of the milk.
Next, place the whole mixture in a pan, put on a small fire and heat it, constantly stirring with a spatula. The cream thickens very quickly. Now it can be removed from the fire. In finished form, it can be wiped through a sieve so that there are no lumps.
If you use starch, then after boiling it needs to be boiled a little more. And if you took the flour, then the fire can be turned off as soon as the cream thickens.
Instead of an afterword
Today we talked about how to make a delicious Napoleon cake with beer. As you can see, the recipe is straightforward. You can easily prepare such a treat yourself. A feature of the recipe is the use of beer to get puff pastry. Each housewife has her own secrets of cooking specialties and desserts. And you try to cook our cake, who knows, maybe it will become your business card. Delight yourself and your loved ones with a new culinary masterpiece.