Those who are unexpectedly informed about the guests' tomorrow arrival, or who have their offspring's birthday on a weekday, will be very helpful to our recipe. A gingerbread cake with sour cream does not require long standing by the stove, nor numerous ingredients, nor complex culinary skills. Even a younger student will cope with it. So if someone offers you to bake a cake "Easy" - do not succumb to provocations. Such a cake does not bake - it is just going.
Cake without baking
First of all, consider the basic recipe, so to speak. Gingerbread cake with sour cream is most often complemented by bananas. However, they should not be considered an obligatory ingredient - any fruit can be put into a treat. The only condition is that they must be juicy. Mandarins with oranges, kiwi, any berries, apricots and peaches will be appropriate. Apples with pears will “sound” much worse. To prepare such a cake is as simple as possible: only cream will require labor. He needs a thick sour cream. You can’t buy the right “density” in the store, so you’ll have to weigh the usual, 20%: weigh in gauze, rolled up in several layers, and put in a sieve. With 700 ml it will leave about a glass of whey. Sour cream is better to keep the night in the refrigerator - it will turn out quite thick. She beats well with a glass of sugar. Such an amount of cream is enough for a pound of baking - in any case, the recipe says so. Gingerbread cake with sour cream is going to be very simple: the gingerbread cookies are cut lengthwise into three parts and dip into cream. On a dish, their layer is laid out, on top - slices of sliced banana ... And so on until the blanks are finished, forming a slide. Top it is glazed or sprinkled with chocolate, coconut, etc. During the night, the dessert is saturated - and you can congratulate the birthday man.
Cream with condensed milk
As already mentioned, the simplest recipe came first. Gingerbread cake with sour cream can also be missed with more laborious creams. For example, mix half a liter of low-fat sour cream with a jar of condensed milk and three tablespoons of jam without pulp. Technical subtlety: this is done only with a spoon; in extreme cases - a whisk. The mixer, of course, acts faster, but its use leads to getting too liquid cream. This recipe uses a slightly different method of making gingerbread cake: they are cut into fairly small, but whole and not crumbled pieces. These slices are immersed in the cream and left in it for a couple of minutes - for soaking. Berries will be very harmonious in such a cake (preferably fresh, but also from jam). The gingerbread layer is laid with a mixture of selected berries and crushed nuts. The slide is left on the table for an hour, and then hides for three in the cold. Due to the fact that the gingerbread is chopped finely, it is impregnated quite quickly.
Chocolate Cream Sour Cream
Chocolate cake is especially good with it . Ripe persimmons and nuts used in conjunction with bananas give a special piquancy to this option. The assembly remains the same as the first recipe: the gingerbread plates are soaked in the cream or smeared with them, persimmon plates are laid out on top, the gingerbread cookies again, and then the banana circles. Each fruit layer is sprinkled with nuts. For the cream, white butter is whipped soft (a pack of 200 grams), a glass of sugar is gradually poured (whipping continues). When the grains are completely dissolved, little by little two glasses of sour cream are added. If you want the cream to be chocolate, add three tablespoons of cocoa powder at the end. The folded cake is glazed and left overnight in the refrigerator.
Gingerbread Marshmallow Cake
If you like very sweet goodies, this recipe is right for you: a gingerbread cake with sour cream and marshmallows. The cream here is the most ordinary, basic: half a liter of thick sour cream, whipped with a glass of sugar. Gingerbread cookies are better to take honey, in half - white and chocolate (this is for beauty). Marshmallows need the same amount as baking. Of course, bananas are also needed. If you fear that it will turn out too sugary, dilute them with kiwi slices. The construction of the cake is already trivial: the gingerbread plates are dipped into cream, the fruits are laid out on them, and then the marshmallow layer comes. On it - again fruit, again gingerbread cookies plus bananas and the top - from marshmallows.
"Cherry in the snow"
If you do not save time, but just like gingerbread cookies, you can make a delicious, but rather labor-intensive cake. For him, 400 grams of cherries are mixed with two tablespoons of sugar; when excess juice drains, the berries are mixed with a spoonful of starch. An equal amount of chocolate gingerbread is rubbed. A piece of butter (80 grams) is melted, mixed with three yolks and poured into gingerbread crumbs. The baking dish is lined with foil, most of the "dough" is laid out on it, leveled and slightly crushed. Three squirrels and a half cup of sugar are beaten to soft but steady peaks. Half the meringues are spread over the gingerbread cookies. Cherry is placed on top, along which the rest of the meringues is laid out. The whole structure is neatly closed with the remaining dough - and into the oven for half an hour. Troublesome, but very tasty!