What is the best cake? Recipes and photos

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

What is the best cake in the world? There can be many answers to this question, as the choice depends on personal tastes and culinary preferences.

Napoleon

Our "Best Cake Recipes" list will be topped by "Napoleon". It is this dessert that many consider an unsurpassed culinary masterpiece. Russian housewives love to bake it for the holidays, surprising guests with the great taste of the product and an incredible number of layers.

To bake this best cake, you will need the following products:

• cow butter - 1 pack;
• flour - 3 full glasses;
• milk - 100 ml for dough and 1 liter for cream;
• eggs - 2 pcs;
• a pinch of s alt;
• soda - half a teaspoon;
• vinegar - 1 l.h. (for extinguishing soda);
• sugar - 3 cups without a slide;
• starch - 3 l.st. no slide.

Cooking process

Hands carefully rub the flour with butter, collect in a hill. Make a small hole in the top and pour the egg into it. Sprinkle with flour, add slaked soda, pour in a little bitwarm milk. Knead the dough, gradually adding milk and raking flour. The dough will be thick and elastic. Divide it into 20 identical balls and refrigerate for an hour.

Pour 900 ml of milk into a saucepan, add sugar, put on a slow fire. In a bowl, mix the remaining milk, starch and egg. Pour this mixture into a saucepan after the milk boils and the sugar has completely melted. Boil the cream for 6-8 minutes until thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.

Roll dough balls into thin cakes, bake them in the oven at a temperature of 185 degrees (one cake is baked for no more than 5 minutes). Each cake must be trimmed with a knife, hot smeared with custard. Sprinkle crumbs from scraps on top.

"Napoleon" is ready! He rightfully claims the title of "The Best Cake", because it's hard not to fall in love with the delicate taste of this wonderful dessert.

Biscuit

Let's continue talking about the best cakes (recipes with photos are in the article). Let's talk about biscuits. Any cake based on biscuit dough is prepared very simply and quickly. They love it for its incredibly tender, melt-in-the-mouth taste. On a biscuit basis, you can prepare various desserts using custard, sour cream, butter cream, impregnation from any syrup, jam, ice cream, fruits and berries.

The biscuit recipe is very simple. You will need:

• eggs - 4-5 pcs;
• sugar - 200 g;
• flour - 1 glass without a slide;
• s alt - a pinch.

Separate the yolks from the proteins, inadd s alt to the proteins and beat with a mixer for at least 8-10 minutes. Grind the yolks well with sugar, mix with flour. Whisking constantly, carefully fold in the egg whites. Put the finished dough into a greased form, bake in the oven for about 30 minutes at a temperature of 185 degrees. Cut the finished biscuit lengthwise into pieces, grease with any cream or soak with syrup, connect the halves. Another very best cake is ready!

Tiramisu

This dessert appeared with us recently, but immediately gained immense popularity. Authentic tiramisu contains espresso coffee, chocolate, marsala wine, mascarpone cheese and special savoiardi biscuits - this combination is energizing, exciting and invigorating.

Of course, it is not easy for housewives to find all the necessary ingredients to prepare an authentic delicacy. Therefore, we present a recipe adapted to Russian realities.

Ingredients:

• eggs - 6 pcs;
• fat cottage cheese - 450 g;
• fat cream - 2 l.st.;
• sugar - 6 l.st.;
• biscuit - 250 grams;
• cocoa - 1 l.st.;
• espresso coffee - 300 ml;
• cognac - 50 g;
• s alt - a pinch.

How to cook tiramisu

Wash eggs thoroughly with soap. Separate yolks and whites. Grind the yolks white with sugar, add cottage cheese, pounded to a homogeneous mass, and cream. Mix everything thoroughly. Beat egg whites with s alt until stiff peaks, combine with egg-curd mass. Pour strong cold coffee with cognac into a bowl, there for 5seconds send a biscuit. Put the soaked biscuit on the bottom of the mold, put half of the egg-curd cream on top, the third layer is again biscuit, the last is curd. We remove the form in the cold for 9-11 hours. Sprinkle with cocoa before serving.

Honey cake

Let's continue to list the best homemade cakes. "Honey cake" often appears on the festive table. How to bake this wonderful delicacy of honey cakes and delicate sour cream? You will need:

• flour - 0.5 kg;
• sugar - 2 cups;
• eggs - 3-4 pcs;
• cow butter - 100 g;
• honey - 150 g;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• thick sour cream - 400g

Eggs with a glass of sugar grind until white, add melted honey, cow's butter and soda. Mix everything well. Put the mixture in a water bath, heat for 20 minutes with constant stirring. Add a glass of flour, mix quickly and hold in the bath for another 5 minutes, so that the mass is slightly brewed. Remove from heat, add the rest of the flour and knead the dough. Divide it into 7 or 8 parts. Roll out each part into a thin layer. Bake the cakes in the oven at a temperature of 185 degrees (each cake is baked for no more than 4-5 minutes). While the cake is hot, trim the edges. Grind the scraps into crumbs for sprinkling.

Prepare sour cream: beat sour cream with a glass of sugar. Fold all the cakes, smearing them with cream. Sprinkle with crumbs. Leave to soak overnight. And in the morning another best cake is ready!