Cakes are small, beautifully decorated confectionery products, the range of which is striking in its diversity. Especially popular among lovers of sweets are meringues, tiramisu, eclairs, tartlets and brownies. In today's publication, we will tell you how to cook these delicious cakes at home.
“Peaches”
Many of you first hear of such a treat. However, representatives of the older generation will probably remember the times when this dessert was almost the only public treat. It is an amazingly successful combination of a sand base and sweet filling with condensed milk and nuts. To prepare these delicious cakes at home, you will need:
- 3 raw chicken eggs;
- 60 g unsalted butter (butter);
- ½ tsp baking powder;
- 100 g non-acidic sour cream;
- a cup of sugar;
- can of condensed milk;
- flour (how much dough will require);
- vanillin, walnuts and food coloring (yellow and red).
On the advice of experienced confectioners, you need to start the process with processing eggs. Beat them with sweet sand, and then add soft butter and sour cream. The resulting mass is mixed with flour, baking powder and vanilla until smooth. The same not too large balls are rolled from the resulting test and baked at 170 ° C for no longer than fifteen minutes. The browned products are cooled, divided in half, freed from the middle and stuffed with nuts with boiled condensed milk. Ready “peaches” are dipped in a container with food colors and spread on a dish.
Boucher
This dessert can be an excellent example of a successful combination of biscuit, which contains two types of flour, butter cream and chocolate glaze. To make a high-calorie and tasty cake at home, you will need:
- 5 raw eggs.
- 100 g of white cane sugar.
- 50 g of wheat and potato flour.
To whip the cream you should have at hand:
- 1.25 packs of butter.
- 150 g cane sugar.
- 1 tsp good brandy.
- 3 tbsp. l condensed milk.
To cook chocolate icing, you have to pre-stock:
- 100 g of crystalline sugar.
- 25 g butter.
- 2 tbsp. l whole milk.
- 1 tbsp. l condensed milk.
- 3 tbsp. l unsweetened cocoa (dry).
To begin with, on the advice of professionals, eggs are divided into yolks and squirrels. The first carefully rub, gradually adding sugar. A third of whipped proteins is introduced into the resulting mass. Pre-sifted flour is poured there and knead all this until smooth. At the final stage, the remaining protein mass is sent to a common vessel. Spread the dough on a baking sheet with a spoon and bake at 200 ° C for about a quarter of an hour. The browned round base is cut in half and one of the parts is dipped in icing, cooked from cocoa, butter, sweet sand, condensed milk and milk. Once the chocolate mass has completely hardened, you can proceed to the final stage. The remaining halves are smeared with a cream made from condensed milk, cognac, sugar and butter, and then covered with glazed parts.
Custard cakes
This airy dessert is not obtained by every hostess. For some, it just falls off immediately after being removed from the oven. To avoid this, experienced confectioners advise piercing them in several places for steam to escape before heat treatment. Now that you know the main secret, you need to figure out what products are needed to make custard cakes at home. In this case, you will need:
- Glass of water.
- ½ pack of butter.
- A cup of flour.
- 3 raw eggs.
- A pinch of rock salt.
To prepare the cream, you have to stock up in advance:
- A glass of white sugar.
- 1.5 cups of whole cow's milk.
- 2 tbsp. l high-grade flour.
- 2 raw chicken eggs.
- 2 tsp soft butter (butter).
- 2 tsp vanilla sugar.
First you need to do the test. To prepare it, dissolve salt, flour and oil in a saucepan with boiling water. All mix well until the mass begins to stick to the walls. Then the dough is slightly cooled, supplemented with eggs, spread on a baking sheet lined with parchment using a pastry bag, and for half an hour send the oven, heated to 180 0 C. Finished products are not immediately removed from the oven, but wait until they cool slightly.
Meanwhile, you can do cream. The eggs are combined with flour, and then supplemented with hot sweet milk and boiled until thickened. Vanillin and oil are added to the slightly chilled cream. When it has completely cooled, it is carefully placed inside previously baked pastries. Before serving, the dessert is kept in the refrigerator for a short time.
Raffaello
Many of you have tried the sweet, melt-in-mouth sweets of the same name. But not everyone knows how to bake Raffaello cakes at home. To do this, you will need:
- 125 g margarine.
- ½ cup of water.
- 2 raw eggs.
- 2-2.5 cups of white flour.
To whip the cream, you will have to take care in advance so that you have at your fingertips:
- ½ cans of condensed milk.
- ¾ packaging butter.
- A bag of vanilla sugar.
Additionally, you will need coconut flakes and almonds.
Experienced housewives recommend removing margarine from the refrigerator in advance. When it softens, beat it with eggs, and then add flour and water. All is thoroughly mixed until smooth and cleaned in the freezer. After about an hour, the dough is twisted through a meat grinder and baked at 170-190 0 C. The browned base is chopped with a knife and returned to the oven for a short time. Soon, the cooled crumb is combined with a cream made from condensed milk, butter and vanilla sugar, made out into balls, stuffed with almonds and rolled in coke chips.
Tiramisu
Lovers of Italian sweets will certainly be interested in this recipe for cakes. At home, any housewife can easily make tiramisu, even if she had never done anything like this before. To prepare a sweet delicate dessert you will need:
- 300 g Savoyardi.
- 80 g of white sugar.
- 300 g mascarpone.
- 500 ml of cold sweet coffee.
- 3 raw eggs.
- 3 tbsp. l dry unsweetened cocoa.
- A pinch of salt.
This is one of the simplest recipes for pastries without baking. At home, you just need to collect all the necessary ingredients in the recommended sequence, wait a short time. Experts advise starting the process with processing Savoyard. Cookies are dipped in a cup of cold sweet coffee, laid out on the bottom of a suitable shape, and then smeared with half a cream made from mascarpone, yolks crushed with sugar and salted whipped proteins. All this is sprinkled with cocoa and covered with leftover cookies. The second part of the cream is applied on top. The future tiramisu is again sprinkled with cocoa and put in the refrigerator for impregnation.
"Potato"
This popular delicacy can be freely bought in any confectionery department, but it will be much tastier if you make it yourself. To reproduce the Potato cake recipe at home, you will need:
- 300 g shortbread cookies.
- 70 g peeled walnuts.
- 130 g of white sugar.
- 130 ml whole cow's milk.
- ½ pack of butter.
- 3 tsp unsweetened dry cocoa.
- Confectionery topping, coconut powder and icing sugar.
Experienced housewives advise starting the reconstruction of this “Potato” cake recipe at home with the processing of cookies. It is combined with nuts and twisted through a meat grinder. The resulting crumb is poured with syrup, cooked from milk, sugar, butter and cocoa, and then put into the refrigerator. About thirty minutes later, balls or ovals form from the resulting mass and sprinkle them in confectionery crumbs, coconut flakes and sweet powder.
Protein Cream Tartlets
Lovers of classic sand-based desserts are invited to pay attention to the cake recipe discussed below. At home, “Tartlets” are no worse than those served in cafes or sold in pastry shops. To treat your loved ones with this famous dessert, you will need:
- 250 g of white flour.
- 125 g butter (butter).
- 80 g of cane sugar.
- ½ tsp salt.
- An egg and a bag of vanillin.
To make the filling, you will additionally need:
- 2 squirrels.
- 100 g of fine sugar.
- 50 ml of drinking water.
- Any thick jam.
According to the recommendations of professionals, the oil is frozen in advance to make it easier to work with. Then it is grated and combined with dry ingredients. All this is ground into crumbs, supplemented with eggs and knead. Finished dough is distributed in special molds and sent for heat treatment. The browned baskets are filled with jam and cream made from sweet syrup and whipped proteins.
Meringue
This is a light French dessert, the basis for the preparation of which is beaten egg whites. To repeat the recipe for meringue cakes at home, you will need:
- 250 g of sweet powder.
- 4 egg whites.
- Deodorized oil.
Separated proteins are whipped with a mixer in a thick dense foam, gradually adding sweet powder. The resulting mass with a confectionery syringe is spread on a baking sheet lined with parchment and greased with oil. Meringue is baked at 100 ° C for about an hour.
Eclairs with curd cream
For those who do not know what to serve as a dessert for a children's party, you can recommend this interesting and uncomplicated cake recipe. Eclairs at home are prepared very simply and quickly enough. To make them, you will need:
- 4 eggs.
- Glass of water.
- ½ pack of butter.
- A cup of flour.
- ½ cup cream.
- A glass of cottage cheese.
- 2/3 cups icing sugar.
Professionals recommend starting the process with preparing a test. To do this, dissolve the oil in heated water and dilute the flour. The resulting mass is supplemented with eggs, made out in the form of eclairs and baked until tender. Browned cakes are filled with cream made from sweetened whipped cream and mashed cottage cheese.
Macaron
This fragrant and very interesting delicacy was invented by French confectioners. It has a pronounced nutty aroma and a very delicate fragile structure. To bake these delicious pastries at home, you will need:
- 2/3 cups peeled almonds.
- 1.5 cups icing sugar.
- 3 egg raw proteins.
- 5 tbsp. l granulated sugar.
- ¼ tsp food coloring.
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract.
To make a cream for popular French pastries, you will need:
- Pack of butter (creamy).
- A cup of sugar.
- 3 raw egg whites.
Experienced confectioners recommend starting the dough with almond processing. It is combined with sweet powder and rubbed in a mortar. The resulting flour is poured into a bowl with whipped proteins, sugar, vanilla extract and dyes. Dough with a pastry bag spread on a baking sheet and baked at a moderate temperature. Fifteen minutes later, the products are removed from the oven, cooled and greased with a cream consisting of proteins, whipped with butter and sugar.
Brownie
These fragrant chocolate cakes will not leave indifferent even the most picky sweet tooth. To bake them you will need:
- 300 g of cherries (seedless).
- 100 g high-grade white flour.
- 200 g of any quality chocolate.
- 120 g of fine sugar.
- 4 raw chicken eggs.
- 1 tbsp. l dry unsweetened cocoa.
- ¼ tsp table salt.
- ¾ packaging butter.
- A bag of vanillin.
The chocolate broken into pieces is combined with chopped butter and melted in a water bath. The resulting homogeneous mass is supplemented with sweet sand, salt, cocoa and vanilla, and then mixed with eggs, oxygen-enriched flour and cherry. The finished dough is poured into a smeared form and baked at 180 0 C. Experienced chefs do not recommend keeping brownies with cherries in the oven for longer than forty minutes. Otherwise, they will dry out and lose a pleasant slightly moist structure. Baked cakes completely cool and only then cut with about the same squares.