Classic "Napoleon" recipe

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Almost every second housewife knows the Napoleon recipe. After all, such a cake is the most delicious and delicate dessert, from which both adults and children are delighted. It is worth noting that it is quite easy to prepare, but it will take a lot of effort and time to get the perfect sweet dish.

Napoleon cake: recipe with photo

Required ingredients:

• cream margarine - 260 g;
• wheat flour - 2.5 cups for cakes and 3 large spoons for cream;
• filtered drinking water - ½ cup;
• apple table vinegar - 2 large spoons;
• table s alt - at your own discretion;
• fresh milk fat - 500 ml;
• granulated sugar - 1 cup;
• large chicken egg - 3 pcs;
• fresh butter - 110 g;
• vanilla sugar - 1 pack (5g).

The process of kneading dough for shortcakes

Recipe "Napoleon" andmore precisely, the process of preparing the base requires careful observance of all the following recommendations, otherwise the cake will not turn out tender and fluffy. Thus, it is necessary to pour drinking water into a large bowl, add apple cider vinegar and a small pinch of table s alt to it. After that, in a separate bowl, you need to finely chop the slightly melted creamy margarine and grind it with wheat flour until an oily crumb is formed. Next, water with vinegar should be poured into the resulting mass, and then thoroughly mixed with your hands, so that as a result a thick base is formed that sticks well from your hands. It is worth noting that this option is a classic dough recipe. "Napoleon", cooked according to it, is very tasty and tender.

After the base is well mixed, it must be divided into exactly 4 parts, each of which must be wrapped in cling film and sent to the refrigerator for 1.5 hours.

Cream making process

The recipe for "Napoleon" may contain different ways of preparing the cream. However, we will consider only its classical version. To do this, in a separate bowl, carefully beat 3 chicken eggs, add granulated sugar, wheat flour and fresh fat milk to them. Next, the ingredients must be slightly heated in a water bath. In the process of such processing, the cream should thicken, after which it is required to put butter and vanillin on it. Then the cream should be thoroughly mixed and cooled in cold air.

Bakingshortcakes

The finished and chilled dough needs to be taken out of the refrigerator, divide each piece into two equal parts (8 pieces in total) and roll them into a circle, the diameter of which will be equal to the size of the form where the cakes are planned to be baked. They cook in the oven quite quickly (12-17 minutes).

Dessert Shaping

Browned cakes should be cooled, and then generously smeared with previously prepared cream. On top of the cake, it is also recommended to generously coat and sprinkle with crumbs, which should be made independently from the cut edges.

As you can see, the recipe for "Napoleon" is not as complicated as it seems at first glance. The formed cake can be eaten immediately (in this case it will be crispy), or you can let it soak, which will make it soft and tender.