Bavarian cream cake: step by step recipe

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Have you ever tried any of the German desserts? If not, then let's look at a few recipes. German desserts are very tasty and varied. You can try to cook something unusual, tender and airy. We hope you and your family will enjoy one of the recipes below.

Bavarian food

In general, Bavarian cuisine stands out from the general German. Her recipes have always been famous for their ease of preparation and simplicity, but at the same time, the dishes turned out to be very interesting and satisfying. Among them there are a lot of pastries and various other flour products.

Bavarians' desserts are simple but incredibly delicious. These include many varieties of strudel, pies and, of course, cakes. What is one Bavarian cream worth!

All these sweets are served with coffee, which is drunk well, just in unlimited quantities. German desserts are neither boring nor monotonous. They absorbed all the best traditions of Europe, but managed to keep theiroriginality and uniqueness.

Bavarian cream recipe

Let's talk about Bavarian cream. We can say that he is the closest relative of panna cotta. It tastes like creamy cream. Many centuries have passed since its invention, but the popularity of this delicacy does not decrease at all. On the contrary, this dessert is served as a festive treat in different countries of the world. In addition, the cream is used both for making cakes and as an independent dish.

Let's look at how to make Bavarian cream, step by step. Custard cream, whipped cream and gelatin remain the unchanged ingredients of the classic delicacy. Berry and fruit juices, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, wine, rum, liquor, etc. are used to give taste and smell.

So, how to make a dessert with Bavarian cream? The process will not take long, but the result is simply amazing!

For cooking, you should purchase the following products:

1. Sugar - half a glass.
2. Milk - 1.5 cups.
3. Egg yolks - 3 pieces.
4. Cream (fat content must be at least 33%) - 300 ml.
5. Vanilla - 2 pods.
6. Water - 4 tablespoons.
7. Gelatin - 1 tablespoon.

Preparation of Bavarian cream

So, let's start preparing the Bavarian cream. The recipe is not complicated at all:

1. Put gelatin in a small saucepan and soak it in water (for thirty minutes).
2. Vanilla pods cut intohalves (along) and get the seeds with a knife.
3. Heat milk a little.



4. Add vanilla pods and seeds to it, bring to a boil, then remove from heat and let it brew for fifteen minutes. Then strain.
5. Mix sugar with yolks and put this mass in a water bath. Beat the yolks with a whisk until the sugar is completely dissolved.
6. Stir without stopping. Pour warm milk into a saucepan. And continue to beat until the mass thickens right in the bath.
7. Remove the dishes from the fire, add the soaked gelatin and mix well. Let the cream cool.
8. Using a cooking brush, grease small molds with oil. It can be ceramic bowls, silicone, glass.
9. Whipping cream until soft peaks form.
10. Very gently fold the cream into the cool cream, stir gently.

11. The resulting mass is decomposed into molds and put in the refrigerator for three to four hours. It is good to prepare such a cream in the evening, and put it to cool at night. Your treat will be ready by morning.

You can safely experiment with Bavarian cream. It is not necessary to put it in small portion forms. You can simply put it in a large dish, and when it hardens, cut it into segments in the form of a cake.

Nuances of the recipe

The recipe with vanilla presented by us is one of the many options for making treats. As we have already said, with Bavarian cream you canexperiment. Feel free to use your culinary imagination. And every time you get a new delicious masterpiece.

For example, those who love citrus notes in desserts can use lemon and orange zest instead of vanilla. Fans of coffee taste and aroma should make coffee cream. To do this, add ten to fifteen grams of roasted grains to milk. Bring to a boil over low heat and strain, cool. Well, then you do everything according to the recipe.

Bavarian cream can complete a romantic dinner. For such a case, add a tablespoon of amaretto, rum or cognac during the preparation of the dessert. The cream will acquire completely new flavor notes.

Dessert decorations

And do not forget that when serving dessert on the table, be sure to decorate it with fresh fruits and berries. It can be: kiwi, citrus fruits, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants, etc. You can also decorate with candied fruits, jelly candies, nuts and even mint leaves. Believe me, it turns out not only tasty, but also beautiful.

Remember that you can make the dessert itself in the form of a cake by adding nuts and fruits. And cut it right before serving. You will have a wonderful cream cake.

Bavarian cream in cakes

Bavarian cream can be used in the process of making cakes. We will tell you a recipe that involves pears, nuts and vanilla. Of course, you will have to tinker a bit, but believe me, it's worth it.

The fact is that pears are very tasty when theyboiled in honey syrup. The fruits become very fragrant and tender. And in a cake, they are simply amazing!

The basis of our delicacy will be walnut biscuit cakes, on top of which pears in chocolate will be laid out. And then also the Bavarian cream with honey glaze. Can you imagine this culinary masterpiece?

To make a biscuit, take: three eggs, 70 grams of sugar, forty grams of wheat flour, walnuts.

As for any biscuit, we start cooking by beating sugar and eggs into a very thick foam. Grind the nuts in a blender until fine crumbs. Let's add them to the eggs. Then add the sifted flour and mix until smooth. Put parchment on a baking sheet and grease it with butter, sprinkle with a little flour.

Spread the biscuit mixture on a baking sheet. You need to bake at a temperature of two hundred degrees for no more than ten minutes. From the biscuit cut out two circles with a diameter of seventeen centimeters. We'll only need one. Freeze the other one. Use it next time.

Next you need to prepare the Bavarian cream. We have already told you his recipe, we will not repeat it.

How to make frosting?

Let's make the glaze. To do this, take the following ingredients:

1. Cream – 150 ml.
2. Gelatin - 5 grams.
3. Brown sugar - 30 grams.
4. Coconut oil - 30 grams.
5. Honey - 130 grams.
6. Pears - half a kilogram.
7. Bitter chocolate or cocoa - 130 grams.

Glaze is better to prepare in advance. For example, the day beforebaking cakes.

Soak gelatin in water. In a bowl, mix cream, honey. Let's put the pot on the fire. Heat well, but do not let it boil. Chop the chocolate and add to the warm mass. Stir until it dissolves. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add the swollen gelatin, stir again until completely dissolved. You can pour in a little coconut oil, if you have it, of course. But, in principle, you can do without it. Pour the frosting into an airtight container. Let cool, close and send to the refrigerator.

Next, peel and cut the pears in half. Pour water into a saucepan. Add sugar and honey, as well as prepared fruits. Cook them over low heat for half an hour. Then we take them out, cool them down and send them to the refrigerator.

Assembling the cake

Now let's start collecting the cake. We put the cake in a detachable form, and halves of pears on it. From above, all this is poured with Bavarian cream and sent to the freezer for a couple of hours. After two hours, heat up the icing (just a little).

We take our cake out of the mold and pour glaze over it. So the royal charlotte with Bavarian cream is ready. It turns out very tender, tasty and fragrant.

Instead of afterword

Make a Bavarian cream for a festive table as a dessert - and you will receive a lot of compliments for such a miracle. Well, then take on the preparation of the cake. We wish you success and bon appetit!