Is your holiday coming soon? Want to cook something new and unusual for dessert? Make the Napoleon curd cake. This delicious dessert will appeal to both adults and children.
Ingredients for the dough
Curd "Napoleon" is a little-known recipe. The shape of the cake remains unchanged, and the taste is completely different. First you need to cook the dough for cakes. To do this, you need the following set of products:
1. Thick cottage cheese (without grains) - 0.5 kg.
2. Flour - approximately 600 g (it all depends on the density of the first ingredient).
3. Sugar - 150-200 g.
4. Eggs - 3 pcs.
5. Margarine (butter) - 1 pack (200 g).
6. Soda, slaked with vinegar - 1 tsp. (can be replaced by baking powder)
7. Salt (pinch) - to taste.
8. Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp.
Cooking dough
Eggs with sugar must be beaten with a mixer until smooth and left in the container. If the cottage cheese is lumpy, then in a separate bowl, kill it with a blender. In eggs with sugar, add soda or baking powder. Mix well with a mixer. In the same container, put margarine, which must first be grated on a coarse grater.
Now add the beaten cottage cheese, flour, salt, vanillin to the egg mixture. Mix all ingredients and knead uncooked, soft dough. Make a ball out of it, cover with a towel so that the mass is not weathered, and put in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
See how beautiful the dough came out. Now it remains to insist and you can continue to prepare the dessert.
Bake cakes in the oven
Now you can get 6 balls of dough from the refrigerator. They should be cold, but not frozen. Chop each ball with flour, put one on an empty spot and roll. First make a circle, and then remove the excess so that you get a rectangle. However, this is optional. Indeed, "Napoleon" cottage cheese can be either round or rectangular.
Lay the rolled cake on a baking sheet, oiled, and then put in the oven to bake 200 degrees. Readiness is checked simply. When the cake is browned, you can get it. This is approximately 7-10 minutes. Thus, it is necessary to bake all the other five cakes. They cannot be smeared with hot cream. Therefore, the curd cake cakes need to be cooled to room temperature.
Cream Ingredients
While the dough is in the refrigerator, we determine what we will lubricate the cakes with. If we already know that we want to cook "Napoleon" cottage cheese, then we need to make the appropriate cream. To do this, take the following ingredients:
- Curd cheese - 200-250 g.
- Fat-free cottage cheese - 300 g.
- Cottage cheese of medium fat content - 500 g.
- Any berries (strawberries, raspberries, currants) - 100 g of each species.
- Jam (preferably blackcurrant) - 500 g.
- Sugar - to taste.
- Vanillin - 1 packet.
- White condensed milk - 0.5 cans.
The above ingredients are optional, because you can improvise based on your desires and capabilities. When the cream is ready, start cooking the cake. Cream of cottage cheese will turn out more delicate and tasty if you add a little cream to it.
Cooking cream
Very tasty cottage cheese "Napoleon". Its recipe is quite simple and available for every housewife. However, the future of your cake depends not only on the cakes. The cream gives the taste and tenderness to the dessert, which we will talk about now. To avoid unnecessary lumps, curd and cheese beat with a blender until smooth.
Now add the condensed milk to the curd. After all, it is it that gives amazing impregnation to the cakes. If the cottage cheese is too dry, then you can take not a half of the condensed milk, but a whole jar. However, do not forget that you will also add jam and berries. Therefore, before adding another ingredient, try the mixture to taste.
To make a delicious cream of cottage cheese, you can add a little lemon juice to the cream, which removes the sugary sweet taste. When you have prepared everything according to the recipe, you can make dessert.
Cottage cheese cake "Napoleon"
When the cakes have cooled down and the cream is cooked, you can create an amazing dessert. To do this, put the first cake on a tray or flat dish and generously coat it with curd cream. So that the dessert is well saturated, you need to lubricate it and on the sides.
Lay out the second on top of the first cake. Lubricate it liberally as well. Thus, lay out all the curd cakes for the cake. Lubricate with cream cheese on top and sides. The first two hours, you can’t put the cake in the refrigerator so that it is well saturated and becomes more juicy.
The result is a very delicious curd "Napoleon". Its recipe is very easy. Therefore, every housewife will be able to make such a delicious dessert without any problems and please not only guests, but also her household.
Curd "Napoleon" in a pan
This dessert does not have to be baked in the oven. Some housewives got used to making shortcakes in a pan. There is an opinion that then they do not dry out and get a completely different taste.
When you rolled out the dough to the desired size, put it on a heated and slightly greased margarine pan. When one side is browned, turn it over. Caution, do not overdry. To do this, fry the cakes over medium heat. Put them on a plate and set to cool.
When the cakes have cooled, you can lubricate with the same curd cream, the recipe of which is described above. When the whole cake is oiled, then you can decorate it as you wish.
Presentation
As a rule, Napoleon cake is decorated with crumbs that remain from baking. However, as the practice of many confectioners shows, you can improvise with a presentation in other directions. For example, berries (kiwi, strawberries, raspberries, etc.), chocolate, jelly and much more can decorate a dessert.
If you have not found the above ingredients for decorating the cake at home, it does not matter. After all, you can spread on top what you have in the refrigerator. For example, bananas, apples.
Whatever you come up with a dessert, it will be delicious in any case, and its appearance will be delicious. After all, baking is prepared with love, and this is the most important thing for any pastry chef.
Experienced Cooking Tips
When preparing the dough, it is very important that the margarine or butter for the dough is cold and hard. The quality and taste of the dessert depend on this in the future.
Very often, when frying or baking, cakes swell strongly. To prevent this from happening, pre-pierce them in several places with a fork. Do not worry about the appearance. Subsequently, all the shortcomings of the dessert will hide the curd cream.
When you cook round cakes, trimmings remain. Do not throw them away, but fry them, as they will become the decoration of the dessert. To make the trimmings in color more beautiful, rub them slightly with cocoa.
Curd cake is even tastier if the cakes are not only greased with cream, but also sprinkled with chopped walnuts (almonds).
Before serving, the cake should be in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours. If time permits, then try to keep it in the cold for a day. Then it will be better infused, become softer and more saturated.