Pest cake is a dessert made from shortbread or biscuit dough. It consists of eggs, granulated sugar, flour, cream, margarine, jam. There are several recipes for this treat. The cooking options are described in the sections of the article.
Shortcrust Dessert
The basis for the Pest cake includes:
- 100 g of sugar.
- Flour (two and a half cups).
- Salt - 1 pinch.
- A third of a teaspoon of soda.
- Margarine (200 g).
- Three egg yolks.
- Citrus flavoring (to taste).
The cream includes:
- 300 g of sugar.
- Water - 100 ml.
- 3 squirrels.
- Three teaspoons of lemon juice.
- Packing vanilla powder.
As a layer for cakes, 260 g of jam is used.
How to make a Pest shortcake? Recipe:
- Margarine beat with sugar.
- Add yolks, flavor, sifted flour with soda.
- The components mix well.
- The resulting dough should be divided into 3 fragments and form layers from them.
- Cakes are cooked in the oven until a golden crust appears.
Then they need to be cooled, greased with a layer of jam and placed on top of each other. Sugar is mixed with water, put on fire and brought to a boil. Proteins should be ground. For this, a mixer is used. Sugar syrup is combined with lemon juice, added to proteins and whipped. Next, pour vanilla powder, mix. The sides and the top of the dessert are covered with cooked cream.
Berry treat
It includes:
- Five tablespoons of sugar (for cakes).
- Cream - 200 ml.
- 200 g of butter.
- Egg.
- Flour - 2 cups.
- 50 g of powdered sugar.
- A third of a teaspoon of salt.
- 150 g of cranberries.
- Cherry (pitted) - as much.
- Sugar (150 g).
- Two sweet cheesecakes.
- Baking powder packaging.
Berry cake "Pest" is prepared as follows:
- Oil should be combined with sugar, salt and egg. The components are whipped.
- Add flour mixed with baking powder.
- The dough is divided into 4 fragments, from which balls are formed. They are rolled out with a rolling pin. Cut out circles of the same size. You do not need to throw out the rest of the dough.
- Cakes are kept in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then they get out and cook in the oven for 5 minutes.
- Scraps of dough are dried in an oven and chopped into crumbs.
Cream for the Pest cake is prepared as follows:
- Cream triturated with powdered sugar.
- Cheese curd with a fork.
- The products are combined, whipped with a mixer.
- The berries are crushed and boiled with sugar for 30 minutes. The mass should become thick.
Chilled layers of dessert are covered with jam and cream and stacked on top of each other. The surface of the dish is sprinkled with sand crumbs.
Simple recipe
The cakes include:
- Flour - 300 g.
- Egg.
- Butter (160 g).
- A third of a teaspoon of baking powder.
For cream you will need:
- Sugar (210 g).
- 4 squirrels.
- 1 g vanilla powder.
- Water (60 ml).
Also for dessert you will need powdered sugar (20 g) and jam (250 g).
How to make a pest cake? Photos and recipes are presented in this chapter.
- The butter is ground with sugar. Add the egg, baking powder to the mass. Beat well.
- Combine the components with flour. A ball is formed from the dough, which must be wrapped in a film and put in the refrigerator for twenty minutes.
- Then they take it out and divide it into fragments. Square cakes are cut from pieces. They are cooked in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Proteins are ground with a mixer.
Add a teaspoon of sugar. The remaining portion of the product is dissolved in water and heated. The syrup is poured into the protein mixture, vanilla powder is placed in the mass and beat well. Cakes are covered with a layer of warmed jam with cream and laid on top of each other. Pest cake sprinkled with powdered sugar.