If you are looking for a
recipe for a delicious and easy to prepare birthday treat or just for tea, then the Miracle cake is exactly what you need. Delicate, with a touch of honey and
custard in the classic version or any other of your choice will be a real hit of your holiday. And the time that will be spent on baking cakes and preparing the filling will not take very much - usually 2-3 hours are enough. Plus, it is best to let the cake brew so that it is saturated and acquires a special delicate taste.
Miracle Cake: a recipe for dough for making cakes. Ingredients
So, if you decide to treat guests and homemade pastries and choose our “Miracle” for this, start by making cakes. For them you will need:
- 60 grams of good butter;
- a few tablespoons of sugar, depending on how sweet, in your opinion, the cakes should be;
- 2 tablespoons of natural honey;
- 3 eggs whipped in foam;
- 2 tsp baking soda;
- 3-3.5 cups of sifted wheat flour.
Having prepared the ingredients, you can take on the dough itself. Miracle cake, or rather its cakes, are made from custard.
How to make a cake dough
So, taking the above ingredients as a basis, follow these recommendations to get the right
choux pastry for the cake. First, put soft butter, sugar and honey in a small saucepan or bowl, mix and place in a water bath. Stir occasionally, wait until the sugar has completely melted, and you get a homogeneous liquid mass. After that, remove the dishes from the bath (do not turn off the stove), cool a little and beat the eggs into the mixture.
This is not all - once again you need to put the pan in a water bath for about 4 minutes and heat it, stirring continuously. Eggs should not be made - otherwise you will get a sweet omelet, and you will have to start the “Miracle” cake again. After the specified 4 minutes, add soda to the mixture - the viscous liquid will increase in volume. This is a normal reaction, continue to interfere with your future dough, until the mass in the pan increases 3 times.
After pour in 2 cups of flour and very quickly brew the dough. If you see that it is liquid, add about half a glass of flour. And remove the pan from the heat. But this is not the dough for the “Miracle” cake. The final stage will be the following: pour 1 cup of flour on the table, then put the brewed mass from the pan into it and mix thoroughly. The consistency of the test should be smooth and elastic. Now roll it into a thick sausage, cut into 6-7 equal parts. These are blanks for future cakes.
Miracle cake (recipe with photo): bake cakes
This cooking step is incredibly simple. By the way, in parallel with it you can make a cream. First, preheat the oven to about 200 degrees, then take one of the workpieces and roll it thinly. Place on a greased baking sheet or foil. Then place in the oven and bake until the cake becomes a distinctive golden color. This usually takes 10 to 15 minutes. So bake all 6-7 stems for your cake, let them cool.
A quick tip: if you want the edges of the dessert to be flat, trim them. This must be done as soon as you take out the form from the oven: take a plate of a suitable diameter, put it on the back side of the cake and align its edges. Thus, your cake will be beautiful and very even. The remaining pieces can be ground or crushed into crumbs and used to decorate the dessert.
Classic Cake Cream: Ingredients
So, the best cream for “Miracle” is considered to be custard, although, focusing on your taste, you can make sour cream and a simple cream of condensed milk and butter. For custard you will need:
- a glass of granulated sugar;
- one egg;
- a tablespoon of flour;
- a glass of milk;
- a pack (250 grams) of soft butter;
- half a glass of warm sour cream (that is, one that is not just from the refrigerator);
- vanillin to taste.
So, the ingredients are ready, the cakes are cooling or still baked in the oven. About 20 minutes it will take you to prepare the cream.
Cream for “Miracle”: custard and delicious
First, break the egg into a bowl, then add granulated sugar and mix everything thoroughly. When the sugar has dissolved, pour a tablespoon of flour and a little vanilla (do not overdo it - it can give bitterness). Little by little, literally with tablespoons, add milk to the mass, continuously mixing the mass. After that, put the cream blank in a water bath and practically bring it to a boil. Keep in mind that the mass will begin to thicken.
When the first small bubbles appear, remove the dishes from the heat. You brewed the cream, now it needs to be cooled to room temperature, add soft oil to the mass. Stir, and then beat with a mixer or blender until smooth. After a couple of minutes, add sour cream, whisk again a couple of minutes. The cream is ready. It can be spread on cakes.
Assembly and decoration of the cake
Now you know how to cook the “Miracle” cake, or rather, its components - smooth, well-baked cakes and cream. After this, proceed to the assembly of the dessert. It is very simple to do this: take the cooled cake, spread it with cream, put another one on top and spread it again. And so, until the golden rounds end. It is best to spread the upper crust with a thin layer of cream, you can color it (color it with food coloring or cocoa) or make an inscription using a pastry syringe with a thin nozzle.
Also, as we have already mentioned, the cake can be decorated with crushed crumbs from crusts — sprinkle them on the top and sides of the product. This will work best if you pick up a few crumbs in your hands and “slam” them into the dessert. Of course, the sides are also coated with cream. Also in summer, many decorate the top with fresh fruits - strawberries, kiwi, slices of orange or fresh berries look beautiful. In general, focus on your imagination and those products that are in the refrigerator.
So, in this article we examined in detail how to cook a “Miracle” cake. The classic recipe for goodies is quite simple and does not require any special ingredients, so they can pamper guests and home for a celebration, or simply for no reason. For example, you can make a delicious honey “Miracle” for tea on a day off.