Everyone knows that Esterhazy is a famous cake that is considered to be from Austria and Hungary. This dessert has a wonderful almond and chocolate flavor, and is named after Pal Esterhazy. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs and represented the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. This cake was served by a court chef on the occasion of the birthday of the son of this politician. The unusual look, taste and decoration of the dessert amazed everyone, the reviews about the Esterhazy cake were extremely positive, and the fame of it quickly spread in higher circles.
Esterhazy Classic
Ingredients:
- eight eggs;
- 250 g of sugar;
- 150 g of walnuts;
- three tablespoons of almond or wheat flour;
- cinnamon and salt to taste;
- almond petals - a pack.
For glaze and cream:
- chicken eggs - 4 pieces;
- half a glass of milk;
- three tablespoons of very fat cream;
- three tablespoons of sugar;
- a quarter cup of condensed milk;
- 250 g butter;
- 150 g of white chocolate;
- 50 g of dark chocolate.
First, make a dough of proteins with nuts. To do this, place the nuts exactly in the pan and fry in the oven, heated to 160 °, 10 minutes to form a golden crust. Separate the whites of eight eggs from the yolks and place them in a deep bowl to beat with a mixer. We add 250 g of sugar there and beat until dense peaks. Grind the peeled nuts in a coffee grinder or combine to a very fine crumb, almost to the state of flour, add them to a bowl with already whipped proteins. We add a pinch of salt and cinnamon to get a brownish color and a good aroma.
Now pour flour into the dough and mix gently. This amount of dough is enough for four cakes. On a baking sheet you need to put baking paper and circle the contours of the plate in order to understand what size to make cakes. Using a spatula or pastry bag, transfer the dough to pastry paper and send the oven for 30 minutes.
We make a cream. To do this, mix half a glass of milk with fat cream and bring to a boil. In a separate bowl, beat the sugar with eggs, add warm milk, continuously mix everything with a spoon. Now pour this mixture into a saucepan, where cream and milk are cooked over a very low heat until thickened, remembering to stir constantly. Ready cream needs to be cooled. Beat the butter with a mixer and add the cooled cool custard. This will be the filling for the cake.
Now make the icing. We take 150 grams of melted white chocolate, add two tablespoons of tablespoon fat cream and heat it. Cakes ready to smear with cream and pour on top with melted chocolate.
Using a pastry syringe, we make a drawing on the cake in the form of a spiral and then use a toothpick from the center to the edge of the cake to draw a drawing. We decorate the side parts of the cake with almond petals. The finished cake is cooled in the refrigerator and served.
Cake without flour
You will need to test:
- six egg whites;
- almonds - 200 g;
- granulated sugar - 200 g;
For cream:
- egg yolks - six pieces;
- butter - 250 g;
- milk - 200 g;
- granulated sugar - 100 g;
- vanilla sugar - one sachet;
- liquor - three tablespoons.
For decoration:
- white chocolate - two tiles;
- almond petals - one bag;
- dark chocolate - 50 g;
- ready-made flowers from mastic (optional, as a classic cake does not imply their use).
Grind the almonds with a blender until flour, whisk the whites with sugar in a good strong foam. Ready proteins are mixed with almond flour. Lubricate the prepared form with butter and sprinkle with flour well. We transfer the dough from proteins and almonds to the mold. Divide immediately so that you get 4-5 pieces of cakes. We put the mold in the oven with a temperature of 200 ° until the cakes become light brown. Do not overdo them, otherwise the cake will give out burnt caramel and have an unpleasant bitter taste.
While the cakes are baked, you can prepare the cream. Grind the egg yolks with sugar, add three tablespoons of milk and vanilla. We heat the remaining milk, then add a mass of sugar yolks there and, stirring constantly, bring to a boil. As soon as the cream begins to boil and thicken, you need to turn off the fire and refrigerate in the refrigerator, covering the food saucepan with a film so that the cream does not wind and a crust appears. Beat the cold cream with oil, which stood a little warm and became room temperature.
Grease each cake well with cream, smear the sides at the end, pour the cake with white chocolate warmed up in a water bath, and sprinkle the sides manually with almond petals and decorate the cake as you wish.
And if you buy ready-made?
Of course, not everyone wants to bother with cake baking, especially on holidays, when there is so much trouble. In this case, we immediately go to the store for a sweet dessert, which we are going to please our loved ones. And here the main thing is not to make a mistake in choosing the manufacturer of Esterhazy, because it is rather difficult to find high-quality and properly prepared cakes. Many praise the Cheryomushki plant in reviews of the Esterhazy cake, and even distinguish it from other similar cakes of other manufacturers.
Combine "Dobryninsky"
Reviews of cakes and pastries produced at this plant are very controversial. Consumers agree on one thing: earlier the name of the plant on the box guaranteed the quality of the product, now there are a lot of negative reviews. They say that instead of butter, margarine is used, and this is felt. However, it was the reviews about the Esterhazy Dobryninsky cake that turned out to be positive. People who have tried it say that the manufacturer does not depart from the classic recipe, and this pleases them.
"TasteVill"
Most enthusiastic reviews of Esterhazy cake from VkusVill. The cake is sold in small volume - it weighs only 200 g and costs about 200 rubles. One caveat - some buyers complain that instead of almonds, the manufacturer uses peanuts that are not prescribed by the recipe.
Mirel
The company "Mirel" reviews about the cake "Esterhazy" receives the most enthusiastic. In fact, since people recognize the Mirel Esterhazy cake, for the most part at home they have been buying it for the most part. This cake is very tasty, however, it does not belong to the cheap category of goods.