Sometimes you want to pamper yourself and your guests with a sweet, tasty, and most importantly, healthy dessert without any extra dyes and additives. “Alenka”, a cake that does not require special skills and efforts in cooking, meets these criteria as well as possible. And what is also important, it includes natural products that can be purchased at the store or, even better, use homemade products.
Cooking methods
Like all sweets of this kind, "Alenka" is a cake that consists of cakes, impregnation for them and cream. Depending on the amount of time the hostess has, you can bake one cake, which you then need to cut, or separately cook twelve to fourteen cakes. The latter option is more time-consuming, but looks much more refined, and cakes can soak better, which will affect the tenderness of the dessert.
Consider first the first option.
Cake "Alenka". Recipe number 1
For the test you will need:
- condensed milk (one can);
- chicken eggs (3 pieces);
- sour cream (200 ml, preferably 20% fat content);
- granulated sugar (150 grams);
- soda (1 teaspoon, quenched with a teaspoon of vinegar), or you can use 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- 2 cups of flour.
Making cakes
First, turn on the oven and set the temperature to 180 degrees on it. While the oven is warming up, we proceed to prepare the dough.
To do this, beat eggs with sugar, pour the condensed milk in a stream of froth, then sour cream, pour soda, quench it with vinegar (or just pour the contents of the bag with baking powder). Mix everything thoroughly, add the sifted flour and mix again. The consistency of the test should resemble thick sour cream and be monotonous, without lumps.
Next, in the prepared baking dish, greased with vegetable or butter, pour the resulting dough and level it. We bake first 25 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees, then another 25-30 minutes, reducing the heat to 160 degrees.
Recipe number 2
"Alenka" is a cake that can be performed in several versions, but the condensed milk in the composition of its cream remains unchanged.
This recipe differs only in the composition and amount of cakes.
For the test we need:
- sour cream (thick, 300 grams);
- eggs (2 pieces);
- butter (100 grams, softened);
- soda (1 teaspoon quenched with vinegar);
- flour (about 4 glasses).
Cooking cakes
Add one egg and sour cream with slaked soda to the oil, mix everything thoroughly and add a little flour. The dough should be elastic, because from it will need to roll out about 12 thin cakes.
We spread the first thin cake obtained on a baking sheet, greased with oil, pierce it a couple of times with a fork and send it to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for ten to twelve minutes.
The cake should have a golden color.
We repeat such actions with each of the cakes.
Impregnation preparation
Alenka is a cake that turns out to be very tender due to condensed milk in its composition, but the cake impregnation also plays an important role, which gives them special softness.
The time during which the cake is baked can be used to make cream and soak.
The composition of the impregnation is very simple, it includes ingredients such as:
- water (2 glasses);
- sugar (3 tablespoons or the same amount of fructose);
- cognac (3 tablespoons if the cake is prepared for adults).
It is necessary to boil the water, add sugar to it, mix and, if desired, add alcohol to the slightly cooled liquid.
Make cream
Cream Ingredients:
- butter (200 grams);
- a can of condensed milk (you can cook it yourself).
In order to prepare the cream, you need to beat a little softened (but not melted) butter with condensed milk until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
During this time, the cake should be ready, carefully remove it from the oven, but do not remove it from the mold, you need to wait until it cools down a bit.
Cut the cooled cake into three identical parts along and lay them on the board.
Next, you have to soak the cakes, for this, pour them with impregnation directly on the board or dish. Thanks to such actions, the cake acquires juiciness and tenderness.
Then, directly on the dish, grease each of the cakes with cream.
The top of the resulting goodies can be decorated with your favorite types of nuts or prunes.
Useful Tips
In order to make homemade cake “Alenka” beautiful and especially tasty, use some simple tips for its preparation:
1. It is better to take sifted flour for dough.
2. To mix the dough, it is better to use a blender-whisk, but then the dishes should be with high and sufficiently strong sides (pan, for example).
3. The surface of the baking dish can also be covered with parchment on top of a layer of oil, but it will also need to be slightly covered with butter or vegetable oil.
4. The edges of the cakes are not always obtained equal or even. In order to smooth them visually, use a mixture of crumbs of nuts or cookies and cream residues. With this mass, decorate the resulting cake on the sides.
Cake "Alenka" with condensed milk is ready. Enjoy your meal!