Snack cakes are a great option for a festive table. Every housewife who is expecting guests is always worried about whether there are enough refreshments on the table, whether guests will be hungry. And pies are a good snack, and also very satisfying.
Puff pastry snack cake
To prepare this cake, we need puff pastry cakes. They can be purchased at any supermarket, or cooked yourself using a recipe for Napoleon.
We will need the following ingredients:
- Puff pastry - 800 g.
- Lightly salted salmon - 400 g.
- Cheese - 200 g.
- Chicken eggs - 1 pc.
- Mayonnaise.
Roll the puff pastry into four cakes. Put on a baking sheet and pierce with a fork in several places. Now you can send the cakes into the oven to bake at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees to the finished state (about ten to fifteen minutes).
Meanwhile, grate the cheese on a grater (medium). Boil the egg, peel it when it cools down. Rub it on a coarse grater.
When the cakes are ready, begin to smear them. Grease the first with mayonnaise and sprinkle with cheese.
Put the next one on top, apply mayonnaise on it, put salmon, trout or canned fish. Next, make a cake with an egg. Grease the top layer with mayonnaise and decorate as desired, for example, with salmon roses and sprigs of greenery.
Pate pastry cake
To make such a pie, you need to tinker. But the result will please you. It will take you about an hour to cook it.
Ingredients for Snacks:
- Chicken or liver pate - 150 g.
- Puff pastry - one pack.
- Mayonnaise.
- Mushrooms (you can take both fresh and pickled) - 200 g.
- Carrots - 2 pieces.
- Onions - 2 pieces.
We begin to prepare a snack cake with a paste. To do this, fry the carrots with onions. Then add the liver and broth. In the finished form, put it all into a blender bowl and beat until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. Here is the paste and ready. Now it has to cool.
Then again you need to fry the onions with carrots, but without the liver. Defrost puff pastry and roll into cakes. If you purchased ready-made sheet dough, then this is even easier.
Each cake must now be baked in the oven until it becomes rosy. The number of layers of the future pie can be any. It all depends on how many cakes you bake.
Next, you need to coat each layer with mayonnaise. On the bottom cake, put the paste and onion with carrots. All this is evenly distributed. On the second - onions, mushrooms, carrots. Cover with cake. We will also grease it with paste. From the scraps of dough you can make crumbs and sprinkle the top layer with it, and also decorate the pie with cheese, mushrooms, olives and herbs. So our puff pastry pie is ready .
Cheese Pie: Ingredients
We want to introduce you to another great recipe. This is a cheese pie. It is perfect for an afternoon snack, because it is incredibly satisfying and tasty. Or you can serve it for lunch along with a hot dish.
Snack pies with cheese are good because they cook quickly enough and can be either an independent dish or served on the festive table as an additional snack.
For the test we take:
- Premium wheat flour - 200 grams.
- Margarine - 200 grams.
- Sour cream - 100 grams.
- Soda (slaked with vinegar) - half a teaspoon.
For the filling you will need:
- Cream cheese - 3 pcs.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Onions - 3 pcs.
Cooking Cheese Snack Pie
So, let's start making a snack cake. Mix sour cream, flour and slaked soda in a bowl . And immediately add the margarine, mashed through a sieve. The resulting mixture must be thoroughly kneaded until smooth.
When our dough is ready, it must be covered with a film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour. And ourselves at this time, we begin to prepare the filling for the cake. To do this, get the processed cheese and grate them on a medium grater.
Cut the onion into small cubes and fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown, then transfer to a deep plate and wait until it cools. Next, mix the grated cheese, onions and add eggs, as well as spices to taste.
We take out the dough from the refrigerator and divide it into two parts. Roll out the cake from each. We put one on the bottom of the one in which the dishes in which the cake will be baked. Put the filling on top of it, gently smooth it on the surface. And with a second layer of dough, cover the pie on top.
Now we put our snack cake in the oven, heated to a temperature of two hundred degrees. It will be baked for about half an hour. The cake should acquire a golden hue.
Instead of an afterword
As you can see, in order to prepare a snack cake, you do not need to be a talented chef. All recipes are very easy to execute. Make a pie according to one of the recipes for the holiday table or for dinner, and you will see how easy it is. Believe me, the result will please you! You will receive a lot of praise.
Snack cakes always look very appetizing and have a rich and mouth-watering aroma. You can diversify each recipe by adding greens, grated hard cheese, olives, olives during cooking. Good appetite!