☝️ 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫 Jellied cake: recipes, cooking features and reviews 🎭 🔊 📦

Jellied cake is a delicacy that has become popular relatively recently. A big plus of this dessert can be considered that it consists of fresh berries and fruits. Such cakes today have many variations. This article provides some interesting recipes for this dessert that you can cook at home.

Raspberry variant

You can cook this jellied cake year-round. It is done very simply, and for it you will need:

250 grams of shortbread cookies;
60 grams of butter, melted;
395 grams of condensed milk;
2 teaspoons vanilla extract;
600 ml oily sour cream
1 glass of frozen or fresh raspberries, plus an extra for serving;
85 grams (packet) of red fruit jelly;
white chocolate chips.

How to cook it?

This jellied cake with sour cream is made as follows:

Using a food processor, grind shortbread cookies to small crumbs.
Add oil.
Mix until these components are fully combined.
Put the mixture on the base and sides of the spring form (20 cm in diameter), leaving 2 cm of clearance above. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Using an electric mixer, beat condensed milk, vanilla, and half sour cream until soft peaks form.
Add raspberries. Pour in a prepared form with a spoon.
Flatten on top with a spatula.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
Using an electric mixer, whisk the other half of sour cream with jelly crystals until soft peaks appear.
Spread the mixture on the cake.
Using a spatula, smooth the surface. Freeze for an hour or until the jelly layer becomes hard.

Remove the prepared jellied cake from the mold and place on a serving plate. Sprinkle some raspberries and chocolate chips on top.

Strawberry option

This jellied cake with strawberries may very well become one of your favorite desserts. It consists of three layers: light biscuit, strawberry mousse and beautiful mirror glaze. Such a treat is ideal for the holidays. Serve it alone or with fresh berries and whipped cream.

The jelly layer makes feeding easier, as pieces of cake can be easily pulled out of the mold with a stiff spatula.

To cook it, you need the following. For cake:

a glass of flour;
a bag of baking powder;
4 eggs;
half a glass of sugar;
teaspoon vanilla extract.

For strawberry mousse:

180 grams (2 packets) of strawberry jelly in crystals;
2 cups boiling water;
1 cup of cold water;
3 cups whipped cream or sour cream.

For the jelly layer:

10 large berries of fresh strawberries, cut in half;
90 grams (1 packet) of strawberry jelly in crystals;
a glass of boiling water;
half a glass of cold water.

Cooking Strawberry Dessert

As you can see from this recipe with the photo, the jellied cake looks very beautiful. It is done as follows:

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Lubricate the bottom of the glass baking dish and set aside.
In a medium bowl, prepare the dough. To do this, beat eggs with half a glass of sugar for about five minutes to make the mixture airy.
Then add baking powder and vanillin, and then begin to slowly add flour, continuing mixing.
Pour the resulting dough evenly into the prepared pan.
Bake the sponge cake for the jellied cake for 15-20 minutes until golden and splendid.
Remove from the oven and cool in shape for at least 30 minutes.

While doing strawberry mousse:

In a medium bowl, add 2 packets of strawberry jelly and 2 cups of boiling water.
Stir slowly for one minute so that the crystals can dissolve.
Add a glass of cold water and let cool (but do not allow to solidify). It takes about an hour at room temperature or 5-10 minutes in the refrigerator.
Add whipped cream or sour cream to the jelly and mix until smooth. The mixture should be fairly thick.
Once the cake is cool, evenly spread a layer of mousse on top of it.
Tap the mold on the rack several times to even out the filling and remove any air that has got inside.
Refrigerate for at least 1 hour on a flat surface in the refrigerator.

In the meantime, make jelly glaze:

In a deep bowl, mix a packet of jelly with a glass of boiling water and stir slowly until dissolved.
Pour half a glass of cold water and stir again, cool slightly.
Remove the cake from the refrigerator. Lay the halves of strawberries on top of the dessert.
Once the jelly mixture is barely warm, gently pour it over the surface of the cake above the strawberries.
Chill the treat again, for an hour, until the icing hardens.

Blueberry dessert

As a rule, a jellied cake is prepared with fruits or berries. Below is a recipe with blueberries, but you can replace it with anything: slices of pears, peaches or even apples.

For the base case, you need the following:

shortcrust pastry cake (home-made or semi-finished product);
250 grams of cream cheese, softened;
1 cup icing sugar;
3/4 cup sour cream;
1 sachet of vanillin;
1 sachet of thickener for cream and sour cream;
some salt.

For topping:

3/4 cup sugar;
1/4 cup corn starch;
10 tablespoons of water;
fresh lemon juice from two fruits;
3 cups fresh or frozen blueberries (or any other sweet fruit or berry);
some salt;
1/2 sachet of vanillin;
1 tablespoon butter.

How to make such a dessert?

The recipe for jellied fruit cake is as follows:

In a large bowl or in the stand for the mixer, whip the cream cheese until splendid.
Add powdered sugar and vanilla and mix well.
Put sour cream, a thickener and a pinch of salt.
Beat until all components are well combined and set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, combine corn starch and sugar.
Add water and lemon juice and mix until smooth.
Pour the mixture into a saucepan, place on a stove and turn on a moderate fire.
Add blueberries or other filling of your choice. If you are using frozen berries, simply pre-place them in the microwave for a couple of minutes so that they are not icy.
Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. It should begin to thicken in a couple of minutes. You should achieve a consistency of thick jam.
Remove the pan from the heat and mix its contents with salt, vanilla and butter. Set aside so that the mixture can cool.
Pour the cream filling into the pre-baked shortbread cake. When the berry fill cools to room temperature, distribute it on top.
Wrap the cake in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

Lemon cake

Lemon jellied cake is a very delicate delicacy that everyone will like. You can easily prepare it for any dinner party or family holiday. For him you need:

For cake:

2 cups of crushed dry crackers;
half a glass of molten unsalted butter;
2 tablespoons of sugar.

To fill:

1 cup granulated sugar;
half a glass of lemon juice;
1 tablespoon lemon zest;
3 1/2 tablespoons of corn starch;
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten;
a glass of almond or cow's milk;
100 grams of butter;
a glass of sour cream.

Optional: whipped cream plus half a tablespoon of lemon zest for decoration.

Cooking Sour Cream Lemon Dessert

Put crumbled crackers, melted butter and sugar in a medium bowl and mix with a fork until the mixture is well combined.
Apply the resulting mixture to the bottom and sides of a round shape.
Chill in the freezer while preparing the toppings.
In a large saucepan, beat lemon juice, lemon zest, corn starch, sugar, egg yolks, and milk while cooking over low heat until the mixture becomes as thick as pudding.
Remove from the stove and whisk with butter until smooth.
Let the mixture cool and mix gently with sour cream.
Spread the mixture on the cake and refrigerate for at least three hours before serving.
Sprinkle the finished dessert with lemon zest and spread the whipped cream over it.

Another raspberry variation

This jellied cake recipe is delicious with both fresh and frozen raspberries. This means that you can apply it all year round. To prepare this delicious treat, you will need the following.