If you are a lover of homemade cakes and your culinary skills extend far beyond Charlotte recipes, try making a cake! At home, it is not so difficult. The main thing is to start, and we will show you interesting and original recipes for the base for a chic dessert. So, the option and recipe for cake for your cake before your eyes.
The basis for the cake
The most delicious cakes are made from simple ingredients, you just need to be able to combine them. Any recipe for cake cakes at home is suitable for creating a culinary masterpiece.
But there is a certain technology. As the basis for a homemade dessert, you need to bake cake cakes. A simple recipe involves using available products. And one of the options will turn out from them:
- sand;
- biscuit;
- protein
- sugar;
- puff;
- tiny.
Which form to choose?
What if you need to bake a curly cake in the shape of a star or a heart? Use special baking dishes that will repeat a particular workpiece. In this case, it is better to choose detachable models.
If you do not have curly shapes and pans, you will have to cut it. To do this, prepare a picture cut out of thin paper and attach it to the cake. Cut with a circular knife.
But mold only the semi-finished product that has cooled well at room temperature, otherwise the cakes will be jammed.
And scraps can be used in recipes of tiny cakes (see below).
Sand cake
What are the ingredients:
- wheat flour - 550 g (including on a pouring);
- sugar - 200 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- butter - 300 g;
- baking baking powder - 1 tsp;
- salt is a pinch.
About 1 kg of dough is obtained from this amount of products. It is very important to use inferior wheat flour in the recipe for short cake for cake. It is from this that an ideal sand cake will turn out.
Cake cakes - recipe in the oven:
- Stir in soft butter and sugar to make a homogeneous mass. It is better to use a regular whisk.
- Add eggs, salt. Shuffle.
- Combine flour with baking powder and sift. Add to the mass and knead the dough. The lump must be resilient and at the same time soft. Knead quickly with vigorous movements. It is not recommended to knead shortbread dough for a long time - it can become hard and prolonged.
- Divide the dough into 3-4 parts according to the number of cakes needed. Roll each lump into a layer. Pierce workpieces with a fork evenly over the entire surface.
- Turn on the oven at 200-220 ° C and bake each layer of dough separately for 10-15 minutes.
- Leave the cakes on a lattice on a table, cool at room temperature, if necessary, cut off the finished cakes with a circular knife.
Sponge cake - a classic recipe
What are the ingredients:
- premium wheat flour - 280 g;
- potato starch - 3 tbsp. l .;
- sugar - 350 g;
- eggs - 13 pcs.
Interestingly, this biscuit does not include confectionery baking powder. A magnificent dough is obtained due to beaten egg whites.
Cake cake recipe further. It is better to prepare the dough for a classic biscuit dough using a technique - a blender, mixer or tabletop whisk.
Rinse the eggs thoroughly in warm water, wipe them, break each one into a small bowl. And then pour into a larger container for whipping with sugar.
So, beat the sugar and eggs until smooth lush mass. It takes about a quarter of an hour. And the result is a homogeneous foamy structure without grains of sugar. The increase in volume is 3-3.5 times.
Mix potato starch and flour and sift together. Then, without ceasing whipping the sugar-egg mass (but at the first speed), pour in portions of flour. Not longer than 14-16 seconds.
Immediately lay out the dough in a form or several forms for many shortcakes. Place in a preheated oven at 170 ° C for 40 minutes. Cooking time depends on the mass of one cake.
These are the finished (cream-covered) cakes made of cakes - recipes with photos, see below. And also check out the thematic video - an example of decorating and decorating a biscuit cake
What to add to biscuit or shortbread dough?
The classic recipes for cake cakes are recommended to be enriched with additional ingredients. They can become:
- small pieces of candied fruit;
- cocoa powder or instant coffee (first you need to sift through a fine sieve);
- grated chocolate or special confectionery droplets from it;
- milk condensed with sugar or boiled condensed milk (a little or instead of sugar);
- poppy (crushed in a mortar);
- spices (vanilla, cardamom, fresh chopped mint or dried grass powder);
- ground nuts (pre-fried and peeled from dark skin, especially for almonds);
- sesame seeds or sunflower seeds (fried until rosy color);
- alcoholic flavoring - liquor, white wine or rum (cognac gives the dough a gray tint, it is used very rarely);
- food colors (berry, fruit or vegetable juice, powder dyes of various colors);
- pieces of fruit or berries, mashed potatoes from them (including quick-frozen).
Frozen pieces of berries or fruits should not be thawed. It’s better to brew them in potato starch or wheat flour and mix them in the dough.
Protein cake (or air)
What are the ingredients:
- sugar - 950 g;
- raw egg whites - 470 ml;
- vanilla powder - on the tip of a knife;
- citric acid - on the tip of a knife.
The cake recipe for the cake is as follows. Pour the proteins into a volumetric cup and begin to beat at the first speed of the mixer, smoothly switch to the second, third, when the mass thickens. It is necessary to achieve an increase in mass of 6-7 times.
Then slow down to the first one and pour a mixture of sugar, vanillin and citric acid in a thin stream - beat for about 2 minutes. Put the mass in greased forms (according to the number of cakes) with a spatula or pastry bag. Flatten and bake at 110 ° C for about an hour.
Be sure to prepare a baking sheet for such a cake. Lubricate with a piece of soft butter or margarine, sprinkle with wheat flour. So the cake will not stick.
Cocoa powder or ground roasted nuts are often added to the protein dough to taste - walnuts, almonds, cashews, peanuts or others.
Sugar dough
What are the ingredients:
- wheat flour - 500 g;
- sugar - 500 g;
- large eggs - 3 pcs.;
- cow's milk - 500 ml;
- vanillin powder - on the tip of a knife.
Cake cake recipe:
- Break eggs into one bowl, pour in milk, add sugar and vanilla. Mix the mass or beat at low speed until the sugar grains are completely dissolved.
- Pour in flour and beat for no more than two minutes.
- Further, the test can be allowed to stand at an approximate temperature of 12 ° C for several hours. In this case, it will have better quality and the cakes will turn out to be more attractive and tasty, as well as less brittle. Or immediately mold the dough and bake in a well-heated oven at 200 ° C for about 5-6 minutes. Provided that the cakes are thin.
Very thin cake cakes are made from such dough. And in most cases, sugar dough is used to bake decoration fragments for cakes, as well as piece confectionery. These are sweet tubes with thick filling, homemade waffles, details for cake designs (for retail or wholesale).
Puff pastry
Now you yourself can make cake cakes. The recipe is simple (with photo) and relatively quick. Moreover, puff pastry can be prepared for future use by freezing in a bag. And when you want to bake a cake from puff pastry, remove it and let it thaw at room temperature until soft and elastic properties are restored.
Tiny prefabricated cakes
What are the ingredients:
- wheat flour - 100 g;
- sugar - 120 g;
- small eggs - 2 pcs.;
- butter - 40 g;
- baking powder - 1/3 tsp;
- trimming baked semi-finished cakes, shortcakes, pastries - 650 g.
A feature of this type of cakes is the use of other various semi-finished products for the test of scraps. In the test for one cake, there may be pieces from puff cake, biscuit or sand. Such a variety does not make ready-made tiny crusts worse; they have an original consistency and a delicate taste. In addition, food raw materials are saved, because scraps can remain from the molding of cakes and pastries that have recently been baked.
Also in one test, you can combine trim and one type, for example, only biscuit. So do in pastry bakeries. Cocoa powder is often added to the crumb dough as a natural colorant. Or baked sugar (sugar), it also gives the dough a brownish tint.
Cook easily delicious cake layers. The recipe is as follows:
- Grind the cake layers in a blender to the state of crumbs, loose consistency.
- Stir the crumbs with a soft butter to get a homogeneous mass.
- Beat eggs with sugar separately until frothy. It is necessary that the sugar particles dissolve. To make the process go faster, you can replace granulated sugar with icing powder - it will instantly dissolve in the egg mixture, which will significantly speed up cooking.
- Mix crumbs with butter and egg mass.
- Pour in flour and baking powder. Knead the dough.
- Further, who needs to be allowed to stand for a while and you can form blanks of cakes - roll them with a rolling pin.
- When baking, turn on the temperature of 190-200 ° in the oven. Recommended time is from 30 to 50 minutes, depending on the thickness of the cakes.
Never lower the baking temperature indicated in the recipes. This can lead to burning of dough and spoilage of cake. Restore burnt places will be possible only at the sand or biscuit cake mix. And only if the area of the burner is small. To do this, take a knife or a simple grater and clean the damaged places.
How to bake?
But this is only about the oven, where you may not have time to navigate when the temperature rises or you just don’t notice it.
But you can go the other way. For example, biscuit, sand or tiny cake mixes are easily baked in a frying pan on a stove or using a slow cooker or even a bread machine. Using each of the culinary machines, focus strictly on the recommendations for a particular model that you have available.
This is how cake layers are made. Combine a simple recipe at home with your creative imagination and artistic vein - get a unique author’s cake that you can’t buy in the store!