Who doesn’t like to eat sweets? Most of us will not refuse a piece of cake, cake or chocolate candy. Sweet is a great way to cheer you up. In addition, it is believed that products containing sugar provoke brain activity. No wonder they advise you to eat a piece of chocolate, for example, before the exam.
But in this article we will not discuss the beneficial properties of sugar-containing products, but how to make a delicious cake ourselves and enjoy a homemade dessert.
Homemade cakes
This is the best self-made sweet treat. There are a lot of options, and in this article we will tell you about how to make a cake at home.
If you are a beginner, then here are some great simple recipes for homemade cakes. The cooking process is not difficult. Let's start with how to make a cake at home according to the simplest recipe.
"Biscuit childhood"
We are ready to answer your question "how to make a simple cake." For the first such attempts, this recipe is perfect.
We all remember the taste of a simple homemade cake made from biscuit cakes and condensed milk since childhood. We will prepare this wonderful dessert and ponostalgic.
For biscuit you will need:
- 4 eggs;
- a glass of sugar or powder;
- a glass of flour;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- soda - 0.5 teaspoon and vinegar.
For cream:
- can of condensed milk;
- pack of butter.
Making biscuit
To prepare the base for the cake, start with the eggs. Proteins must be separated from the yolks and beat well until creamy, use a mixer at medium speed. Add sugar slowly and keep whisking. Well-beaten squirrels are a guarantee that your sponge cake will rise when baked.
Gradually introduce flour into the cream, continuing to stir. Also sour cream and egg yolks.
In a well-mixed dough, add baking powder or soda, quenched with vinegar. So the dough will be magnificent, soft. Do not overdo it with soda.
Pour the finished dough into a greased dish. The biscuit base is baked for 30-35 minutes at 180 degrees. Put the batter in a well preheated oven. Do not open it often so that your biscuit does not drop.
If it seems to you that one cake is not enough, prepare another one.
While the biscuit is cooling, prepare the cream.
Cream
For cream, we need only a can of condensed milk and a pack of butter.
Cut cold butter into slices. Beat the ingredients together at medium speed. You do not need to beat too much, otherwise the oil will warm up and flow.
Now we have everything we need. How to make a cake?
Assembly
Cut the cooled biscuit into two or three pancakes.
Put the first pancake, use a fork, a match or a toothpick to poke it so that the biscuit is well soaked. To your taste, you can soak the cakes with sugar syrup, fruit, coffee or alcohol, depending on the filling. Speaking of stuffing.
Having poked and missed with condensed milk and butter, you can lay out the fruits on top. Bananas, kiwi, strawberries are perfect. Also nuts and dried fruits. Coat all the cakes in such a way.
Innings
Before serving, you need to decorate a homemade cake. How to do this? If you are not too skillfully cut from fruits, then you can use fruits sliced in thin plates and lay out. Sprinkle with small berries or lay out the picture. Sprinkle with coconut or chocolate chips or use stencils to create a pattern.
Throw nuts or cocoa - and your easiest cake will look great.
Here's how to make a homemade cake. The recipe is extremely simple, and the dessert is incredibly tasty.
Chocolate cake
But how to make a chocolate cake? It is also simple. Based on a simple biscuit recipe, we can tell you how to make a cake step by step with a chocolate flavor.
It has its own nuances, but it is prepared with the same ingredients and cocoa.
Step number 1. Bake a chocolate biscuit
Sift flour and cocoa through a sieve and set aside. Grasp the eggs. Separate the whites from the yolks. Only yolks are used in this recipe, so the proteins can be removed to the side. Add sugar and mix. Put the mixed yolks with sugar in a water bath and stir with a whisk. Heat the mixture to about 43 degrees.
Now the egg mixture must be thoroughly beaten at high speeds, the volume of eggnog-mogul should rise two to three times. Add vanilla in the process. Gradually add flour and cocoa and mix.
Bake the finished dough in a round form as well as a simple biscuit.
While the biscuit is cooling, you can boil a syrup for soaking or prepare a cream.
The cream can be used from the previous recipe, add cocoa to it or use condensed milk with the addition, and also use melted chocolate.
But we will share with you another recipe for a delicious cream.
Step number 2. Making custard
Custard is incredibly tender, airy and not sugary. Here is what he will need:
- half a liter of milk;
- a glass of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon vanilla;
- 50 g of flour;
- 4 egg yolks.
Mix egg yolks with sugar, vanilla and flour until smooth. Bring the milk to a boil and pour the mixture into it. Cook the mass, stirring, until completely thickened.
Step number 3. Getting started assembly
The cake is going in the same way as the previous one. Layers of cakes can be chocolate pieces, nuts and dried fruits.
Step number 4. Decorate with glaze
You can decorate the cake with icing. For cooking, you may need:
- 250 ml cream;
- 250 g of chocolate.
Pour in hot cream and mix thoroughly until smooth. Put the cake on the wire rack and pour the icing. Let it freeze. Before serving, do not forget to decorate your creation.
Here's how to make a chocolate cake, it's simple and very tasty.
"Anthill"
You can make a cake without baking. You must remember that incredible taste of a very satisfying cake - "Anthill". He is very dense, heavy, but incredibly appetizing.
We will share with you several recipes on how to make an Anthill Cake.
1st method. Classical
To make a cake in the first way, we need:
- 4 cups flour;
- 200 grams of butter;
- 3 tablespoons of sugar;
- baking powder or slaked soda.
Sift flour and mix with butter and sugar. Add vanilla if desired. Roll the kneaded dough into a ball, wrap in cling film and put in the freezer for 30-40 minutes.
On a baking sheet, grate the dough or pass through a meat grinder. Bake until blush. The finished dough should cool. Grind it and set it aside.
Make a cream from the first recipe. You can add chopped nuts and chocolate chips to it. Add crumbs from the dough. Mix and lay out a slide.
You can decorate the cake by sprinkling a slide on top with poppy seeds, chocolate or coconut, nuts.
2nd method. No baking
The second method does not require baking. To make it, you only need cookies.
Take a cookie, chop it into crumbs and mix with cream. In addition, you can add cocoa, melted chocolate and other ingredients to your taste. And you can decorate the cake slide with chocolate icing, sprinkle coconut flakes on top. Coconut flakes can also be added inside the dessert to give a pleasant taste.
Here's how to make a simple cake in a few minutes. Very tasty and incredibly fast.
Berry dessert
From the shortcrust pastry as a basis, you can cook another delicious, incredibly tender dessert. Here's how to make a berry cake.
List of ingredients:
- flour - 2 glasses;
- margarine - 200 grams;
- sugar - 300 grams;
- sour cream - 250 grams;
- Zhmenka blueberries;
- zhenya strawberries.
Let's start with the test. Mix butter with sugar, flour, add vanilla to taste. After mixing the dough, put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
When the dough is ready, roll it out and place on a round baking sheet. Remember to grease the pan with oil.
Mix sour cream with sugar, add vanilla and berries. Leave a little for decoration. Pour the sour cream on the dough and put in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for half an hour.
The cake has an incredibly delicate yogurt flavor. Be sure to try.
"Broken glass"
How to make a broken glass cake? The recipe is very simple, it looks bright and interesting dessert, incredibly delicate and delicious.
For this bright dessert we need:
- jelly - 2 packs;
- gelatin - 20 grams;
- vanilla sugar - 15 grams;
- sour cream - 600 grams;
- peaches - 250 grams;
- cookies - 120 grams;
- sugar - 140 grams.
Cooking:
Make a prescription jelly on a pack. Wait until it freezes. Meanwhile, soak gelatin for 8-10 minutes, and then heat over low heat until completely dissolved.
Dice the peaches. Instead, you can also use pineapples or pears.
Ordinary cookies, preferably sugar or jubilee, break into fairly large pieces.
Cut the frozen jelly into the same cubes in size as the peaches were cut and proceed to the base.
In a deep bowl, send sugar, vanilla, sour cream and beat well, slowly pouring in the dissolved gelatin. There, in a bowl, put the chopped ingredients (jelly, cookies, peach), evenly distribute them and leave to harden.
Remove the finished cake, cut and try.
Do not forget to decorate the jelly cake with powdered sugar, chips or extra pieces of jelly, fruit. Berries and dried fruits, mint leaves are suitable.
Here's how to make a prescription cake without baking. Although it requires a lot of time due to jelly, it is incredibly simple and tasty.
Jelly - dessert decoration
Jelly is a great way to decorate a cake. Put your cakes in a round shape, where you can also coat them with cream.
After the last layer (cake), leave 1.5-2 cm. Brew jelly. You can add fruits to it, for example, lay out circles of oranges or strawberries and pour the appropriate jelly.
If you have enough time, then jelly can be used as one of the layers of the cake or add its pieces to the cream. Imagine and create.
We hope we answered your question about how to make a cake at home. As you can see, making a treat with your own hands is very simple. And with the help of dyes, pastry bags and sprinkles, jelly, fruits, nuts and crumbs, mastic and chocolate lace, you can create incredible works of art.