Have you ever tried something from German desserts? If not, let's look at a few recipes. German desserts are very tasty and varied. You can try to cook something unusual, tender and airy. We hope that you and your family will enjoy the delicacy prepared according to one of the recipes below.
Bavarian food
In general, Bavarian cuisine stands out from the common German. Her recipes have always been famous for the simplicity of cooking and straightforward, but at the same time, the dishes were very interesting and satisfying. Among them there are a lot of pastries and various other flour products.
Bavarian desserts are simple but incredibly tasty. These include many varieties of strudel, pies and, of course, cakes. What is only one Bavarian cream worth!
All these sweets are served with coffee, which they drink well, just in unlimited quantities. German desserts are not boring and not monotonous. They absorbed all the best traditions of Europe, but managed to preserve their originality and uniqueness.
Bavarian cream: recipe
Let's talk about a dessert like Bavarian cream. We can say that he is the closest relative of the panna cotta. It tastes like a delicate cream. It has been many centuries since its invention, but the popularity of this delicacy does not decrease at all. On the contrary, this dessert is served as a festive treat in different countries of the world. In addition, the cream is used for making cakes, and as an independent dish.
Consider how to prepare a Bavarian cream, step by step. The constant ingredients of the classic treat remain custard, whipped cream and gelatin. To add taste and smell, berry and fruit juices, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, wine, rum, liquor, etc. are used.
So, how to make a dessert with Bavarian cream? The process will not take much time, but the result is simply amazing!
For cooking, you should purchase these products:
- Sugar - half a glass.
- Milk - 1.5 cups.
- Egg yolks - 3 pieces.
- Cream (fat content should be at least 33%) - 300 ml.
- Vanilla - 2 pods.
- Water - 4 tablespoons.
- Gelatin - 1 tablespoon.
Cooking Bavarian Cream
So, let's start making Bavarian cream. The recipe is not complicated at all:
- Put gelatin in a small saucepan and soak it in water (for thirty minutes).
- Cut the vanilla pods into halves (lengthwise) and remove the seeds with a knife.
- Heat the milk a little.
- Add the vanilla pods and seeds to it, bring to a boil, then remove from heat and let it brew for fifteen minutes. Then we filter.
- Sugar is mixed with yolks and put this mass in a water bath. Beat the yolks with a whisk until sugar is completely dissolved.
- Stir without stopping. Pour warm milk into a saucepan. And continue to beat until the mass thickens right in the bath.
- Remove the dishes from the heat, add the soaked gelatin and mix well. Let the cream cool.
- Using a culinary brush, oil small molds with butter. It can be ceramic bowls, silicone, glass.
- Whip the cream until soft peaks are obtained.
- Very carefully introduce the cream into a cool cream, mix gently.
11. The resulting mass is decomposed in molds and put in the refrigerator for three to four hours. It’s good to prepare such a cream in the evening, and put it to cool for the night. By morning, your treat will be ready.
You can safely experiment with Bavarian cream. It is not necessary to place it in small portioned forms. You can put it simply in a large dish, and when it freezes, cut it into segments in the form of a cake.
The nuances of the recipe
The vanilla recipe we presented is one of the many options for making goodies. As we already said, you can experiment with Bavarian cream. Feel free to use your culinary imagination. And every time you get a new tasty masterpiece.
For example, those who love citrus notes in desserts can use lemon and orange zest instead of vanilla. Fans of coffee taste and aroma should make a coffee cream. To do this, add ten to fifteen grams of fried grains in milk. Bring to a boil over low heat and strain, cool. Well, then do everything according to the recipe.
Bavarian cream you can complete a romantic dinner. For this case, add a tablespoon of amaretto, rum or brandy during the preparation of the dessert. The cream will acquire completely new flavoring notes.
Dessert decorations
And do not forget that when serving dessert on the table, be sure to decorate it with fresh fruits and berries. It can be: kiwi, citrus fruits, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants, etc. And you can also decorate candied fruits, jelly candies, nuts and even mint leaves. Believe me, it turns out not only tasty, but also beautiful.
Remember that you can make the dessert in the form of a cake by adding nuts and fruits. And cut it just before serving. You will have a wonderful cream cake.
Bavarian cream in cakes
Bavarian cream can be used in the process of making cakes. We will tell you a recipe in which pears, nuts and vanilla are involved. Of course, you have to tinker a bit, but believe me, it's worth it.
The fact is that pears are very tasty when they are boiled in honey syrup. The fruits become very fragrant and tender. And in the cake they are just great!
The basis of our treats will be nut biscuit cakes, on top of which pears in chocolate will be laid out. And then also Bavarian cream with honey glaze. Imagine this culinary masterpiece?
To make a biscuit, take: three eggs, 70 grams of sugar, forty grams of wheat flour, walnuts.
As for any biscuit, we start cooking by whipping sugar and eggs into a very thick foam. Grind the nuts in a blender until small crumbs. Add them to the eggs. Then pour in the sifted flour and mix until smooth. Put parchment on a baking sheet and grease it with butter, sprinkle with a little flour.
Spread the biscuit mixture on a baking sheet. Bake at a temperature of two hundred degrees for no more than ten minutes. From the biscuit we cut out two circles with a diameter of seventeen centimeters. We only need one. And freeze the second. Use it next time.
Next, you need to prepare a Bavarian cream. We already told you his recipe, we won’t repeat it.
How to cook icing?
Let's make glaze. To do this, take the following ingredients:
- Cream - 150 ml.
- Gelatin - 5 grams.
- Brown sugar - 30 grams.
- Coconut oil - 30 grams.
- Honey - 130 grams.
- Pears - half a kilogram.
- Dark chocolate or cocoa - 130 grams.
It is better to prepare the icing in advance. For example, the day before baking cakes.
Soak gelatin in water. In the container, mix the cream, honey. Put the pot on the fire. We warm it well, but do not let it boil. Grind the chocolate and add to the warm mass. Mix until it dissolves. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add the swollen gelatin, stir again until completely dissolved. You can pour in a little coconut oil if you have it, of course. But, in principle, you can do without it. Pour the icing into a sealed container. Let cool, close and send to the refrigerator.
Next, peel and cut the pears in half. Pour into a saucepan of water. Add sugar and honey, as well as prepared fruits. Cook them on low heat for half an hour. Then we get them, cool and send them to the refrigerator.
Making a cake
Now let's start collecting the cake. We put in a detachable form cake, and on it halves of pears. From above, all this is poured with Bavarian cream and sent to the freezer for a couple of hours. After two hours, preheat the icing (quite a bit).
We take out our cake from the mold and sprinkle it with icing. So the
royal charlotte with Bavarian cream is ready. It turns out to be very tender, tasty and fragrant.
Instead of an afterword
Make a Bavarian cream for the festive table as a dessert - and you will receive a lot of compliments addressed to you for such a miracle. Well, then take up the preparation of the cake. We wish you success and bon appetit!