Each housewife has her own corporate way in which festive pastries are prepared . This recipe is often passed on from generation to generation and honed to perfection.
But if the oven was not accepted in your family, this does not mean that you will not be able to please your loved ones the first or second time. Baking, the recipe of which we will describe in this article, will help you discover the talent of a pastry chef.
Poppy seed cake
Baking, the recipe of which involves the use of a mass of delicious ingredients, such as poppy seeds, cocoa, walnuts and high-quality sour cream, simply can not be magnificent. You do not need to soak this sponge cake with syrup: it will surely succeed and without a doubt will turn out to be soft and moist. It is better to bake three cakes so that you do not have to cut one into three parts. Keep in mind that the biscuit baking, the recipe of which we present, must be infused before you coat the cakes with cream for several hours. Five or six is better.
You can decorate the cake at your discretion: coconut, cream flowers (then you need to make twice as much in advance as indicated in the recipe and buy food coloring), ready-made store-bought chocolates, cut into neat pieces. So, we are cooking. Beat three eggs with three hundred grams of sugar until the mass becomes homogeneous and the crystals dissolve. Pour in a half cup of twenty percent sour cream and add melted butter - two tablespoons. Shuffle everything together. Pour a few tablespoons of pre-steamed poppy (draining water) and stir again. Bake by dividing the mass into three cakes. After they have cooled and infused, coat them with cream cheese cream or cream, decorate, put in the refrigerator for a day.
Danish puff envelopes
This insanely fragrant pastry can decorate both breakfast and tea gatherings. Its a big plus is that you can buy frozen dough.
Many recipes of puff pastries allow you to use a ready-to-cook semi-finished product and not to waste your energy on cooking home-made. These envelopes are no exception. Pay attention to the manufacturer of the finished puff pastry, it should be checked. Read the composition on the package, in no case should it contain cheap vegetable fats. Get ready for that, you will need to roll out the dough as thin as possible. Well, of course, you have to make sure that you do not dry the products in the oven. Traditionally, Danish puffs are stuffed with
curd cream. You can replace it with cream cheese. But the unique aroma that has
cottage cheese pastries, recipes of which are popular in the countries of Scandinavia, can not be confused with anything. So, roll the dough thinner, cut it into small rectangles. Prepare the filling. Half a kilogram of dough will require one hundred and fifty grams of cottage cheese, one yolk, a pinch of salt and the same amount of flour, sugar to taste. Mix everything, grind through a sieve. Start the
envelopes with the curd mixture and bake for fifteen minutes in the oven.