The idea of making a Napoleon snack cake (from prepared cakes or baked on their own) at first glance may seem ridiculous. The stereotypes of thinking are affected: somehow, by default, it is implied that if the cake is necessarily dessert. However, no one doubts that the same pies do not necessarily contain sweet filling. In addition, people forget that the "Napoleonic" cakes themselves practically do not contain sugar. So, it is quite possible to lay them something tasty, but not sweet.
The easiest and fastest way to build a snack cake "Napoleon" from ready-made cakes. This should especially please those who are not very friends with pastries. And the craftsmen are far from being able to find in their busy schedule time for fussing with the dough. With ready-made cakes, your task is simply to make a delicious filling.
Fish "Napoleon"
Most often, people prepare a snack cake “Napoleon” with canned food from ready-made cakes - it turns out delicious, and the filling does not require a lot of work. You can get by with fish preserves only, but it’s much more interesting to supplement them with something. The secret of the best such cake is in the use of cottage cheese of the Karat type with shrimps. Canned food is better to take in your own juice. Suitable and tuna, and pink salmon, and saury. Mash the fish with a fork along with the liquid. Three eggs - cool to cook and grate coarsely. Boil a couple of medium carrots (do not digest! Too soft, sprawling, it will ruin the taste), rub and mix with crushed garlic clove and mayonnaise. The assembly of Napoleon is carried out in the following sequence: the lower cake is slightly greased with mayonnaise, half the fish is evenly laid out on it. The second - without smearing - is covered with carrot and garlic. The third again mayonnaise and sprinkle with eggs. The fourth is the balance of canned food, and the fifth serves as a lid - it (and the sides) should be generously coated with curd cheese. The cake is wrapped in a film, pressed and soaked for at least two hours.
Diverse filling
If you want more taste richness, prepare a Napoleon snack cake with canned cakes made from prepared cakes with such a composition of components. Take two cans - one with pink salmon in its own juice, and the other with tuna in oil (better to look in olive). Both fish warm up in different containers. Two steep eggs are rubbed mixed with two processed cheeses. A garlic clove is pressed there and a bunch of onion-feather crumbles finely. The assembly will turn out three-layer, all the cakes are smeared with mayonnaise. Sequence: pink salmon - raw egg pasta - tuna. After soaking, you will find a wonderful Napoleon snack cake with canned cakes made of ready-made cakes: the appetizing result of your work looks at you from the photo. Fish, of course, you can take not only the specified. The main thing is that one kind should be in oil and the other in its own juice.
Salmon Cake
If you like the Napoleon snack cake made from ready-made cakes with fish, but are not attracted to the idea of using canned, you can take 200 grams of slightly salted or smoked salmon. Fish should be freed from bones, finely chopped and mixed with chopped dill, grate three eggs and season with light mayonnaise with chopped green onions. Soft cream cheese is used in this recipe to spread the cakes . The filling alternates: salmon is placed on one cake, eggs on the other, and so on, until both of them end. The top cake is plentifully smeared with cheese and sprinkled with crumbs and herbs. In the morning you can eat.
Meat option
Snack cake “Napoleon” from ready-made cakes does not have to be fish. We offer to try out such a recipe: take a pound of ground meat and quickly fry it in butter. When it turns slightly brown - add chopped onion, and after about ten minutes - chopped champignons (about a third of a kilogram). When the mushrooms give a good juice, cubes of bell pepper are added. As will be ready - season with salt, pepper, garlic and chopped herbs, mix and drive through a meat grinder. Then three tablespoons of mayonnaise are poured and the mass is kneaded. The cake is assembled on a greased baking sheet: minced meat is laid out on each cake, and thin plates of cheese are placed on it. The topmost cake is smeared with mayonnaise and sprinkled with cheese - and the Napoleon snack cake from the finished cake is put into the oven for a quarter of an hour. You do not need to wait until it is saturated - it is immediately ready for use.
Chicken recipe
No less successful appetizer cake "Napoleon" from ready-made cakes with chicken. For him, carrots with onions are fried separately (for 2 root crops - about five onions, it is better to take more for juiciness), champignons (about half a kilogram) and chicken fillet. For greater uniformity, you can grind all components in finished form. On greased cakes, the cakes are laid out:
- on the first - carrot and onion frying;
- on the second - mushrooms in which the onion is interfered;
- on the third - chicken (also with the addition of fried onions);
- on the fourth - champignons again;
- on the fifth, onions with carrots again.
In a crushed state, the cake should stand at least an hour. Then the load is removed, the dish is decorated to the best of imagination and sent overnight for impregnation in the refrigerator.
Vegetarian Napoleon
In the spring, a variety of greens is the very thing that an organism hungry for without vitamins needs. A large red onion finely crumbles and fries, followed by half a cup of fresh cabbage and 400 grams of greens: beet tops, wild garlic, sorrel, and spinach. All this will be stewed for about twenty - half an hour. A couple of minutes before cooking, chopped garlic cloves (three pieces) and a third of a kilogram of cream cheese are added. The cakes are interbedded with the kneaded and cooled mass, and the fragrant snack cake "Napoleon" from the finished cakes is placed in the refrigerator for the night. The next morning will only decorate it.
Vegetable "Napoleon"
Just a decoration for fasting days! Yes, and for lovers of his figure does not seem redundant. Five eggplant should be cut into slices, add salt and leave for a quarter of an hour to remove excess water and bitterness. Then they are fried and laid out in a colander or on a napkin - so that the glass is excess oil. A bunch of greens and three cloves of garlic are chopped and interfere with a tube of light (lean) mayonnaise. Five tomatoes are cut in circles. Cheese - about a quarter of a kilogram - finely rubs. Cakes are smeared with mayonnaise; first, eggplants “bathed” in a dressing are laid out on each, on them are namayonenye tomatoes, on top is cheese. And so all the cakes, except for the “cover”: it is only lubricated and covered with cheese crumbs.
"Napoleon" with a liver
And not only with her! If not stingy, you can get an extremely delicious dish. A third of a kilogram of offal - it is better to take chicken, it is more tender - fried with chopped onion and a little grated carrot. After flavoring with salt and spices, the liver with vegetables is passed through a blender. Two smoked chicken breasts, a fresh cucumber and a handful of steamed prunes are cut into strips, seasoned with mayonnaise and knead. A few walnuts are fried dry and crushed. “Paste” is spread on the lower cake, on the next “salad” is placed - and so on until the cake is collected. From above, it is sprinkled with nuts and left to soak.
Try the Napoleon snack cake from ready-made cakes - the recipe with the photo will help you decide on the choice of filling for him.