Types and names of cakes. Cooking features, best recipes and reviews

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

Pies are a delicious treat for those with a sweet tooth. Holidays are impossible without them, and thanks to the art of pastry chefs, any event becomes magical. Regardless of what the names of cakes and types are, their preparation has become a kind of art. The design of the sweet is amazing, it can decorate any celebration, including a wedding.

Types, names of cakes

Cakes are small confectionery products made from dough with added sugar, toppings and cream. There are a lot of types of cakes, and new culinary technologies allow you to create a new recipe every year. Everyone knows the following names of cakes and varieties:

• Custard eclairs.
• Honey-walnut cakes.
• "Potato".
• Soufflé.
• Bird's Milk Cakes.
• Baskets with berries and whipped cream.
• Meringue.
• Tiramisu.
• Sponge cakes.
• Chocolate.
• Waffle rolls with cream.
• Macaroni.

And this is not all types and names of cakes. The list of sweets is much longer. What unites all these goodies is the ability to decorate any table with its exquisite beauty.

Usually cream, colored icing, berries, pieces of fruit, cream, chocolate are used to make cakes. Absolutely all types of cakes, the names of these sweets are determined by the main product that is included in the composition. Baking is made from biscuit, sand, custard, cottage cheese, bean, rice, puff and other types of dough. For some cakes, the main product is a cookie, not a dough, such as tiramisu.

Foreign cakes: names

Piece dessert confectionery is prepared in two main ways: independent cake (meringue) and equal pieces of cake (Napoleon, cheesecake). Cakes are divided according to the type of filling, the ingredients that make up the composition, and the method of preparation. These sweets are nutty, creamy, mixed, s alty, fruity. The most famous are sweets that are prepared on the basis of cream. The names of French pastries, such as eclairs, are derived from their composition. The basis of eclairs is custard or buttercream. Meringue is also a French pastry made with egg whites and sugar.

In Japan, the names of cakes are popular - wagashi, which are made from rice dough with the addition of herbs, fruits, berries, seaweed, nuts. They are different in size and color, but always stand out amongothers. In China, they love shortbread dough cakes with egg cream. The famous tiramisu is produced in Italy, and chocolate cake is widespread in America. The name of this sweet is "brownie" because of the main ingredient cocoa.

Cooking macaroni (macarons)

Many people call macaroni cookies, although they look and taste more like small cakes. The name of sweets is French, as is the recipe. Macaroni gained popularity all over the world thanks to the sophisticated cooking technology and incredible taste. Despite the technical difficulties, there is an easy pasta recipe that you can use at home.

Cooking cakes must be divided into two parts: dough and cream. In the first case, you will need the following ingredients:

• ground almonds (45 grams),
• powdered sugar (75 grams),
• one chicken protein,
• food coloring,
• sugar (10 grams).

For the cream, prepare:

• milk (50 ml),
• sugar (120 grams),
• vanilla sugar (20 grams),
• cream (80 ml),
• two chicken yolks,
• butter (170 grams).

First you need to prepare the dough. Separate the yolk from the protein in a separate container. Mix the almond and powdered sugar and sift it several times through a sieve. Beat the protein well until a thick and tender foam forms, add ten grams of sugar and “fluff” again. Then add fooddye. The cream must be put in a pastry bag and “planted” on a baking sheet covered with paper at a great distance from each other. The diameter of the cakes should be three centimeters. Let the dough rest for twenty minutes. Then put in the oven, preheated to one hundred and forty degrees, for ten minutes. When the dough has hardened, remove the pasta, place on a cold surface and carefully turn over.

To prepare the cream, mix vanilla sugar with milk and bring to a boil. Beat the yolks with sugar and butter, add 1 tablespoon of milk, stir and slowly pour into the main milk-vanilla liquid. The mixture must be constantly stirred until it becomes thick. Next, one hundred grams of sugar should be caramelized, bring the cream to a boil in a separate saucepan and add it to the caramel. Dip the remaining oil into the mass and cook over low heat until creamy. Cool, mix with vanilla cream, spread on one half of the pasta, put the second on top. Put the cakes in the fridge for an hour.

Forms and tools for making cakes

A professional confectioner always has the necessary culinary tools at hand. This list is very long, but if someone has a desire to start making cakes at home, it is advisable to acquire the following kitchen utensils. In the kitchen, a cake lover must have:

• plastic and silicone molds,
• corollas,
• rugs,
• baking paper,
• food coloring,
• pastry bags with nozzles,
• electronic scales.

Special professional kits for making different types of cakes are gaining popularity.

Cooking Secrets

To make sweets tasty and airy, use the secrets of confectioners to prepare dough and cream. For example, a biscuit cake got its name due to the splendor and lightness of the dough.

• All the ingredients of the sponge cake must be at the same temperature.
• Sift flour for biscuit two or more times through a sieve.
• Carefully separate the whites from the yolks.
• Refrigerate egg whites before whipping.
• Degrease the surface of the bowl in which the egg whites will be whipped.
• Follow the strict sequence of adding all the components of the cake.
• Don't stir the dough too long.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
• Do not open the oven while baking.
• Let the biscuit cool completely.

Easy recipe

Chocolate Potato, a favorite childhood cake, is easy to make on your own. This will require one glass of sugar and the same amount of hot milk, two teaspoons of cocoa, vanilla crackers (300 grams), butter (200 grams), chopped nuts, powdered sugar, cognac (to taste).

Stir cocoa with sugar, gradually pour in hot milk, stir well so that no lumps form. Mixtureboil over low heat - the sugar should melt. Grind croutons in a meat grinder and add to the milk mass. Next comes butter and a little cognac. When the dough has cooled, make balls, roll them in ground nuts, cocoa and powdered sugar, refrigerate for two hours.

Popular cakes in Russia

In Russia, the most common pastries known since Soviet times are custard. They are made from butter cream or condensed milk, incredibly tasty and satisfying.

Everyone remembers the names of chocolate potato cakes, especially their expressive taste and appearance. "Potatoes" are prepared from butter, cocoa, crushed biscuits, crushed nuts. This sweet got its name because of its resemblance to potatoes.

Ptichye Moloko cake, various shortbread baskets with berries and cream, puff, biscuit and chocolate cakes are popular in Russia. The peculiarity of these sweets is that they saturate the body, but also contain a lot of fats and carbohydrates.

Reviews

Most of the reviews about cakes and their preparation are positive. If these sweets are prepared technically correctly, and they are made to order by professional confectioners. At home, you can also repeat the recipe for some cakes if you approach the process creatively and follow the recipe exactly. Of the minuses of self-preparation of confectionery - possible inaccuracies in the recipe, lack of experienceand special tools to improve the cooking process.