How to make a cake at home? It is better to have two proven recipes - for the case when you have very little time, and for the one when you can completely surrender to experiments in the kitchen.
Before preparing a cake at home, it is better to evaluate the labor costs and prepare in advance. Then you can enjoy the baking process, as well as not be nervous and not in a hurry.
How to make a cake at home - chocolate and cream
The essence of this sweet masterpiece is in delicious and rich cakes, as well as in the combination of two types of cream, one of which will serve as a decor, and the second you will impregnate the base. This simple technique will also help to decorate the cake in an original way. Buy a good butter for cakes - it will take two hundred and twenty grams. In this recipe, it is introduced into the dough using an original technology resembling the preparation of muffins. It does not need to be melted or whipped, but simply added to the dry mixture of cocoa and flour immediately before making the cake at home.
This technology is still reminiscent of how chopped dough is made for unsweetened pies. After mixing the oil with dry products, it will need to be crushed into crumbs - this is best done with gloves on your hands (so that the oil does not melt from the heat of your fingers) or with a silicone spatula. Then the dough will need to be brewed with two hundred grams of boiling water. You can take strong coffee instead (this will give an additional flavor to the cake). The first cream will need to be refrigerated for four hours to thicken.
So, start baking cakes: beat two hundred grams of sour cream with one hundred grams of cocoa and three eggs. Separately combine two hundred and seventy grams of flour with baking powder, salt and soda. Using the above technology, grind this mixture with butter until crushed.
Add the sour cream mixture and beat for a while. Pour in one hundred grams of boiling water, mix. Divide into three equal parts, bake cakes. For the first - light - cream, you need to whip the cream cheese with the most fat cream and powdered sugar, let it brew for several hours. Then grease the cakes. For the second cream, mix
cream cheese with powdered sugar and cocoa. Decorate cakes with two types of cream, put in the refrigerator. Now you know how to make a cake at home, you just have to decorate it with pieces of chocolate and nuts. You can sprinkle with coconut, put cherries on top for a cocktail.
Quick cake at home
Make a liquid mixture in a water bath of two eggs, a glass of sugar, a quarter glass of milk, three tablespoons of honey, soda and fifty grams of margarine. When it begins to boil, remove from heat and add two or two and a half cups of flour. Knead, divide into shortcakes, bake, cool and coat with your favorite cream. You can make custard from two glasses of milk, a glass of sugar, a spoonful of starch and two tablespoons of flour. This mixture must be boiled and boiled. After cooling, drive into it three hundred grams of butter and vanillin.