We will include in our cookbook recipes for the most interesting American cakes. Probably, we will not be able to repeat the recipes with one hundred percent similarity and, as the confectioner's soul sometimes requires, make changes, but in the end we get a delicious beautiful dessert. Before embarking on the implementation of recipes, we will get acquainted with the rules, adhering to which the Americans prepare cakes.
Special signs
Of all the nuances based on which American cuisine cakes are baked, some of the rules clearly indicate that the product belongs to the States.
First of all, cakes. They are in most cases not thin. It is simple to assemble such a product, but difficulties can arise while eating dessert. By the way, cakes can have a moist structure or be completely dry.
Between them, the cake is smeared with a not too thick layer of cream in relation to the preparations themselves. But the surface and sides of the American cake in most cases are treated with a thick layer.
The dessert has a very sweet taste. But here is an amateur. In the end, if you decide to cook such a baking, then you can reduce the proportion of sugar in the cream, or in its basis.
Getting to know the options for making American cakes. Take the most famous and simplest recipes. Enjoy a delicious dessert of your loved ones.
Carrot Cake: A Classic Recipe
It can often be found on the table of US residents during home tea drinking. If you have never tried a carrot cake, then there is no need to fear that the pastries will not be tasty. This is not true. Many who became acquainted with the classic American cake recipe and tasted this dessert often began to offer it to guests and relatives.
Carrot Cake Products
The finished product has an interesting taste. The cake is high and porous. What you need to cook it:
- Sugar - 2 cups.
- Vegetable oil without aromatization - 1.5 cups.
- Premium flour - 2 cups.
- Chicken eggs - 4 pieces.
- Baking powder - 1 sachet. A baking powder is placed in an American carrot cake in his homeland. But if you did not have this confectionery powder, replace it with a teaspoon of soda, paying off the same amount of vinegar.
- Cinnamon - 2 teaspoons of dry powder gives the same "American" taste to the finished dessert.
- Carrots - 4-5 large root crops.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
- Walnuts, peeled and chopped - 100-130 grams.
- Powdered Sugar - 350-400 grams.
- Vanilla Sugar - 1 sachet.
- Cream cheese - at least 350 grams.
- Butter or margarine - 60 grams.
As you can see, the ingredients for American cake today can be easily collected in our supermarket. After making sure that you have everything you need, we proceed to create a sweet masterpiece.
Important points
Let's touch on some recommendations for making an American cake.
We prepare carrots for the base before other ingredients. Root crops must be washed very thoroughly and cleaned. Then wipe the carrots on a fine grater. In the finished product, carrot chips will be almost invisible.
Nuts can be chopped in any way. A meat grinder, coffee grinder, knife and cutting board - everything fits. Before starting to prepare a confectionery masterpiece, we remove all products from the refrigerator. We give them a couple of hours to find the acceptable temperature.
Step-by-step dough preparation for the basics
We take a deep and rather capacious bowl. Beat everything provided for in the recipe for eggs with sugar. Add salt and vegetable oil. Beat until fluffy foam is formed.
Sift flour in a separate bowl. The process not only removes possible unwanted inclusions, but also enriches the flour with oxygen. As a result, the dough for the cake is easier.
Introduce cinnamon and a packet of loosening powder into the flour. Mix the dry ingredients until smooth.
We combine the egg mixture and flour. Here again, you need to mix very carefully. It is more convenient to use a mixer, then the dough will take no more than five minutes.
Time for carrots and nuts. These components are sent as the basis for the future cake in the last turn.
Bake cakes
We process the bottom and sides of the deep form with vegetable oil. Cakes can be prepared in two ways, depending on the size of your baking dish.
If the form allows, pour at once the entire norm of the dough and bake it in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees from forty to sixty minutes. We check the readiness with a dry wood horn. Remove the cake from the oven, but not from the mold. Let it cool right in it. Now free the resulting high cake and cut across into two halves.
When you have a modest size at your disposal, you can fill the dough in two or even three steps. We bake each serving 40-50 minutes and cool. We will collect all finished cakes in a single product without cutting.
Cream for cake
Let's prepare a cream for an American carrot cake, taking cream cheese as a basis. Melt the margarine (or butter). Mix with a mixer cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla sugar. Beat the components until they thicken.
We collect an American dessert, layer each cake with a certain amount of cream. We also coat the sides of the cake and its top.
We decorate the American cake according to our preferences. You can sprinkle the top with mastic figures or garnish with whipped cream. You can also come up with a lot of original options.
The finished confectionery product needs time in order to soak in the cream. Eight to ten hours will be enough.
As you can see, a classic carrot cake, the recipe of which was given, is a very simple product.
With orange
Another interesting recipe for an American carrot cake. Check the availability of all ingredients:
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Eggs - 3 pieces.
- Baking powder - 5 grams.
- Lean oil, without aromatization - 2/3 cups.
- Carrots - 1 large root crop.
- Cream with a fat content of 35% - 500 milliliters.
- Premium flour - 1 cup.
- Large orange - 1 piece.
- Gelatin - 15 grams.
- Half a glass of powdered sugar.
- Chocolate - 50 grams.
Cooking Instructions
Algorithm of actions:
- Rub carrots on a fine grater. Beat eggs and sugar until fluffy. Enter the resulting mixture of carrots. We add vegetable oil and gradually, without stopping beating, we introduce flour sifted with loosening powder.
- Pour the finished dough into an oil-treated mold. We send it to the oven preheated to 180-190 degrees. Cake baking time - 40-45 minutes.
- We take out the finished cake and cool to room temperature. Cut into two parts across.
Orange cream
My fruit in hot water. We completely remove the zest from it. The more it can be obtained, the more aromatic the American carrot cake will turn out in the end. Mix a tablespoon of sugar and the whole orange zest. We give time for the combination of taste and aroma.
From the orange itself, you need to squeeze out all the juice, and soak the gelatin in this juice. It is convenient to do this based on the instructions given on the back of the package. Things will go much nicer and more dynamic if you have at your disposal a high-speed version of gelatin.
While the gelatin reaches the desired condition, we continue to manipulate the zest and sugar. Beat cream and powdered sugar until stable peaks. Add the zest mixed with sugar here.
The gelatin dissolved in the juice is brought to a boil, but not boiled! Immediately remove from the stove, pour the mixture into the resulting cream from whipped cream. Beat thoroughly again.
The formation and decoration of the cake
Now we need a cooking ring. We spread the bottom cake in it first. Pour all the obtained orange cream onto the surface. We send the design to the refrigerator for at least thirty minutes.
Having taken out the chilled workpiece from the refrigerator, remove the ring and cover the layer of frozen cream with a second carrot cake.
You can decorate at will. Whipped cream and custard are also good here. You can fill the finished cake with some icing. It is worth giving vent to imagination, and then ideas will not take long to wait.
For example, you can make a wide (height of cake) ribbon of baking paper or parchment. We melt the chocolate, apply it to the ribbon in the form of a lattice or curls, let the chocolate grip slightly, wrap the cake with paper. In this case, the chocolate decor is attached to the sides of the cake, and the paper is around the product. We put the cake in the refrigerator and after ten to twenty minutes you can remove the paper. Chocolate decoration remains on the cake.
Raisin cake
Variation will appeal to lovers of grapes and raisins. Grocery list:
- Lean oil - 1.5 cups.
- Sugar - 2 cups.
- Eggs - 4 pieces.
- Flour - 2 cups.
- Starch -2 tablespoons. Corn is preferred.
- A teaspoon of baking powder.
- Mashed carrots - 3 glasses.
- Cinnamon - 1-2 teaspoons.
- 100-150 grams of washed pitted raisins.
Mix eggs, sugar, salt and vegetable oil. Sift flour with starch and cinnamon. Add the dry mixture to the egg.
We introduce the whole norm of carrots and prepared raisins. Thoroughly mix the resulting dough. It will be more convenient to use a mixer.
The form will be processed with lean, odorless, vegetable oil. Pour the dough. Sent to a hot oven. Bake the cake for 40-50 minutes at a temperature of 18-200 degrees.
Soak the finished cakes with any cream. You can use the variations described above. The surface can also be decorated at your discretion: pour glaze, garnish with cream or whipped cream.