Cake "Danube waves" is a prominent representative of German cuisine. This dessert includes fresh or canned cherries, creamy cream pudding and two types of biscuit: classic light and chocolate. How to make a Danube Wave cake? The recipe, photo and a detailed description of the cooking process will be given in this article.
Description of the Danube Waves Cake
The classic German dessert Donauwelle is known to us under the name Danube Waves. This cake consists of a two-layer sponge cake. The classic version of the dish as the filling involves the use of fresh cherries. The use of canned berries is also allowed. Vanilla pudding acts as a cream in this dessert. On top of the cake "Danube Waves" should be filled with chocolate icing, which has another name - a couverture.
In the context of this dessert looks very impressive. Under the weight of the berries, the light layer of biscuit mixes with the dark, resulting in a marbled pattern in the form of waves.
Most often, a rectangular or square shape is used to make a dessert. Serving the cake is recommended in portions. The top of the dish is best decorated with a wave-like pattern, which can be applied to the still not frozen glaze with a bread knife. So the appearance of the dessert will be in harmony with its name.
Below is a detailed description of the process of preparing the classic dessert "Danube Waves".
Sponge Cake Ingredients
To make cakes, you will need the following products:
- sugar - 200 grams;
- chicken egg - 5 pieces;
- butter - 250 grams;
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet;
- flour - 350 grams;
- baking powder for dough - 3 teaspoons;
- milk - 1 tablespoon;
- cocoa powder - 20 grams;
- salt - on the tip of a knife;
- pitted cherries - 700 grams.
Cream Ingredients
To prepare a cream, you will need such components:
- vanilla flavor pudding - 1 sachet;
- milk - 500 milliliters;
- butter - 250 grams.
Ingredients for Couverture
The following products are necessary for the preparation of chocolate glaze:
- butter - 40 grams;
- black chocolate - 200 grams.
The following is a step-by-step description of the preparation of the classic Danube Wave dessert.
Cake "Danube waves": the process of preparing a biscuit base
To prepare the biscuit base of the cake, you need to do the following steps.
Put softened butter in a container. Add regular sugar, vanilla and salt. Mix these components with a mixer until the mass acquires a uniform consistency.
Add one chicken egg to the resulting mixture and beat the mass using a mixer for thirty seconds. Perform the same procedure with all remaining eggs, driving one at a time and mixing.
Introduce into the resulting mass a mixture of sifted flour and a baking powder for the dough. Add these ingredients in two steps. Mix the dough with a mixer at a low speed.
Cover the rectangular baking dish with a size of 30 x 40 centimeters with parchment. Put 2/3 of the dough and smooth it well.
Mix cocoa powder with milk and add the resulting mass to the remaining dough. Mix well.
Place the cocoa dough in a mold on top of the light layer. Flatten.
Dry the cherry using paper towels. Put the berries evenly on top of the dough, squeezing a little each of them into the brown layer.
Bake in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for forty minutes. When the specified time is up, remove the finished biscuit from the oven and leave it to cool.
While the base of the cake is baked, you should do the cooking of the pudding. This process is described below.
Cooking Vanilla Pudding
Cream based on pudding is as follows. You need to make a cream of milk and a bag of vanilla pudding according to the recipe indicated on the pack. Add sugar if indicated in the instructions. Cover the container with the prepared mass with cling film and leave to cool at room temperature. Beat butter with a mixer.
One teaspoon add the oily mass to the cooled pudding, gently mixing. A prerequisite is that these components must have the same temperature!
Apply the cream on the cooled cake. Put in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
While the Danube Waves cake is soaked in cream in the refrigerator, it is recommended to prepare a couverture. This process is described below.
Chocolate glaze preparation
To prepare a couverture, you need to do the following steps. Break the chocolate into small pieces. Put them in a bowl. Add butter. Melt these ingredients in a water bath. Apply a couverture to the cooled cake. Using a bread knife, apply a wave-like pattern to the surface.
Dessert is ready!
Danube Wave Cake with apples
In addition to the classic Danube Wave dessert recipe, when cherry is used as a filling, there is another interesting variation of this cake. It is recommended to replace the berries with apples. Thanks to this, a piquant sour note will remain unchanged.
How to make such a cake "Danube waves"? A recipe with a detailed description of each step is given below.
Sponge Cake Ingredients
To make cakes, you will need the following products:
- sugar - 65 grams;
- chicken egg - 3 pieces;
- butter - 150 grams;
- flour - 250 grams;
- baking powder for dough - 1.5 teaspoons;
- cocoa powder - 20 grams;
- milk - 1 tablespoon;
- sour apples - 500 grams.
Cream Ingredients
To prepare a cream, you will need such components:
- vanilla pudding - 1 sachet;
- milk - 500 milliliters;
- butter - 150 grams.
Cooking sponge base
To prepare biscuit cakes, do the following:
- Put softened butter in a container, add granulated sugar, mix with a mixer until the mass acquires a uniform consistency;
- Add one chicken egg to the resulting mixture and beat the mass using a mixer for thirty seconds. Perform the same procedure with all remaining eggs, driving one at a time and mixing;
- Introduce into the resulting mass a mixture of sifted flour and a baking powder for the dough. Add these ingredients in two steps. Mix the dough with a mixer at a low speed;
- Cover the rectangular baking dish with a size of 30 x 40 centimeters with parchment. Put half the dough in it. Well level it out;
- Mix cocoa powder with milk and introduce the resulting mass into the remaining dough, mix well;
- Peel the washed apples from the skin, remove the core and cut each of them into eight parts. Spread fruit slices evenly on top of the dough, squeezing a little of each into a brown layer;
- Bake in a preheated to 190 ° C oven for forty minutes. When the specified time is up, remove the finished biscuit from the oven and leave it to cool.
While the base of the cake is baked, you should do the cooking of the pudding. This process is described below.
Cooking Vanilla Pudding
A cream based on pudding is done like this:
- Prepare a cream of milk and a bag of vanilla pudding according to the recipe indicated on the packet, add sugar, if indicated in the instructions;
- Cover the container with the prepared mass with cling film and leave to cool at room temperature;
- Beat butter with a mixer. One teaspoon add it to the cooled pudding, gently mixing. A prerequisite is that these components must have the same temperature;
- Apply the cream on the cooled cake. Garnish the surface of the dessert with cocoa powder. Put in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
The dessert is ready. Enjoy your meal!
Conclusion
The Danube Waves cake is a combination of two types of airy biscuit cakes, cherry filling with pleasant acidity, vanilla pudding and chocolate glaze. The article provides a classic recipe for the preparation of this dessert and a variation in which it is recommended to replace the berries with apples. Thanks to the detailed description of each step, the creation of such a culinary masterpiece will be quite simple. You can also bake the Danube Waves cake in the multicooker. The composition and cooking process in this case will remain the same.