"Alenka" - a cake that anyone can cook

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

Sometimes you want to treat yourself and your guests to a sweet, tasty, and most importantly, he althy dessert without unnecessary dyes and additives. “Alenka” meets these criteria in the best possible way - a cake that does not require special skills and efforts in cooking. And most importantly, it contains natural products that can be purchased at the store or even better - use homemade.

Cooking Methods

Like all sweets of this kind, "Alenka" is a cake that consists of cakes, impregnation for them and cream. Depending on the amount of time that the hostess has, you can bake one cake, which then needs to be cut, or cook twelve to fourteen cakes separately. The latter option is more laborious, but it looks much more refined, and the cakes will be able to soak better, which will affect the tenderness of the dessert.

Let's consider the first option first.

Cake "Alenka". Recipe 1

For the test you will need:

- condensed milk (onebank);

- chicken eggs (3 pieces);

- sour cream (200 ml, preferably 20% fat);

- granulated sugar (150 grams);

- soda (1 teaspoon, extinguished with a teaspoon of vinegar), or you can use 2 teaspoons of baking powder;

- 2 cups flour.

Make cakes

First, turn on the oven and set the temperature on it to 180 degrees. While the oven is heating, let's start preparing the dough.

To do this, beat eggs with sugar, pour condensed milk into the resulting foamy mass, then sour cream, pour soda, quench it with vinegar (or simply pour the contents of a bag of baking powder). Mix everything thoroughly, add the sifted flour and mix again. The consistency of the dough should resemble thick sour cream and be uniform, without lumps.

Next, pour the resulting dough into the prepared baking dish, greased with vegetable or butter, and level it. Bake first 25 minutes at 180 degrees, then another 25-30 minutes, reducing the heat to 160 degrees.

Recipe 2

"Alenka" is a cake that can be made in several versions, but the condensed milk in its cream remains unchanged.

This recipe differs only in the composition and number of cakes.

For the test we need:

- sour cream (thick, 300 grams);

- eggs (2 pieces);

- butter (100 grams, softened);

- soda (1 teaspoon,quenched with vinegar);

- flour (about 4 cups).

Cooking cakes

Add one egg each and sour cream with slaked soda to the oil, mix everything thoroughly and add a little flour. The dough should be elastic, because it will need to roll out about 12 thin cakes.

Spread the resulting first thin cake on a baking sheet, greased with oil, pierce it a couple of times with a fork and send it to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for ten to twelve minutes.

The cake should be golden in color.

Repeat these steps with each of the cakes.

Preparation of impregnation

Alenka is a cake that turns out to be very tender due to the condensed milk in its composition, but the impregnation of the cakes also plays an important role, which gives them special softness.

The time the cake is baked can be used to make the cream and soak.

The composition of the impregnation is very simple, it includes ingredients such as:

- water (2 glasses);

- sugar (3 tablespoons or the same amount of fructose);

- cognac (3 tablespoons if the cake is prepared for adults).

It is necessary to boil water, add sugar to it, mix and, if desired, add alcohol to the slightly cooled liquid.

Making cream

Cream Ingredients:

- butter (200 grams);

- can of condensed milk (you can make your own).

In order to make cream, you need to whipslightly softened (but not melted) butter with condensed milk until smooth.

During this time, the cake should be ready, carefully take it out of the oven, but do not take it out of the mold, you need to wait until it cools down a bit.

Cut the chilled cake lengthwise into three identical parts and put them on the boards.

Next, you have to impregnate the cakes, for this we pour them with impregnation directly on the board or dish. Thanks to such actions, the cake becomes juicy and tender.

Then, right on the dish, grease each of the cakes with cream.

The top of the resulting delicacy can be decorated with your favorite types of nuts or prunes.

Helpful tips

To make homemade "Alenka" cake beautiful and especially tasty, use a few simple tips for making it:

1. Flour for dough is better to take sifted.

2. To mix the dough, it is better to use a whisk blender, but then the dishes should be with high and sufficiently strong sides (a saucepan, for example).

3. The surface of the baking dish can also be covered with parchment on top of a layer of oil, but this will also need to be covered with a little butter or vegetable oil.

4. The edges of the cakes are not always the same or even. To smooth them out visually, use a mixture of nut or cookie crumbs and leftover cream. Decorate the resulting cake on the sides with this mass.

Cake "Alenka" with condensed milk is ready. Bon appetit!