Homemade custard for pancake cake

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

To make pancake custard, you do not need to use expensive products and culinary technologies. The product will turn out very refined and tasty due to the special consistency of the cream. This treat will be the perfect dessert for tea or coffee.

Custard options for diverse desserts

For a pancake cake, custard can be used in a variety of ways, as there are several recipe options. The most common are these custards:

• Cream based on milk and butter can be used to form "Napoleon" or "Honey cake".
• Based on powdered sugar and milk with butter added, this is a classic without being overly sweet.
• Egg-free water cream is used by dieters.

Other auxiliary products are used in the recipes, which make the product tasty and nutritious.

Recipe for pancake cake with poppy seeds

Pancake cake with poppy seeds and custard can be prepared based on the following ingredients:

• 1 liter of milk.
• 6 eggs.
• 5g s alt.
• Glass of sugar.
• 2 cups flour.
• Teaspoon of soda.
• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil.
• 100 g butter.
• 50g poppy.
• Glass of sparkling water.

Principle of making a cake:

1. Heat half a liter of milk a little.
2. Pour 2 tablespoons of sugar, s alt and soda into milk. Dissolve loose ingredients.
3. Crack in 2 eggs and use a whisk to mix the mass until smooth.
4. In a liquid consistency, gradually add the sifted flour in a total of 2 cups. Mix the ingredients with a whisk until all lumps are dissolved.
5. Pour vegetable oil and mineral water into the dough. Mix well.
6. Bake pancakes in a well heated frying pan. Refrigerate.

In addition to preparing the “cakes”, you should take care of the correct preparation of the cream and decorating the dessert.

Preparing the poppy seed custard and finishing the cake assembly

Before you start assembling, you need to prepare the custard for the pancake cake:

1. Use a blender to beat 6 eggs with a glass of sugar.
2. Add 5 tablespoons of flour to the egg-sugar mixture.
3. While the workpiece is whipping, you need to slowly pour in half a liter of cold milk.
4. Pour the poppy into the mixture and put on the stove. The fire must beminimal. Boil the composition until the mixture thickens.
5. Turn off the stove and add butter in small pieces. Stir the cream until all the pieces are dissolved.

Wait for the cream to cool. Lay pancakes one by one, smearing the space between them with custard. Put the assembled product in the refrigerator for 3 hours so that the cake freezes. Additionally, you can sprinkle the surface of the cake with poppy seeds.

Ordinary pancake cake with extraordinary taste

A simple pancake cake is made from ordinary pancakes, the recipe of which is usually different for every housewife. The distinctive features of such a dessert will be the cream and the method of decoration. Custard for pancake cake is prepared from the following ingredients:

• Glass of milk.
• Glass of powdered sugar.
• 1 egg.
• A tablespoon of flour.
• Vanilla sugar.

Crushed walnuts and shredded coconut are used for decoration. You can make a drawing using melted chocolate or jam.

Preparing cream:

1. Mix milk with powdered sugar in an enamel saucepan. Pre-warm the milk a little, so the powder will dissolve more evenly.
2. Sugar-milk mixture should be boiled on the stove, stirring constantly. Otherwise, the composition will stick to the walls or curl up.
3. Using a whisk, beat the egg with flour until smooth.
4. Add egg mixture to milk in a thin stream, stirring constantlycomposition.
5. When the mixture begins to thicken, remove the pan from the heat and immediately add the vanilla sugar.

Spread pancakes with chilled cream. At the same time, it is worth leaving a little for decoration. Coat the top of the cake with cream. Sprinkle the sides and part of the top with chopped nuts. The remaining areas can be finished with coconut flakes.

Low Calorie Egg/Milk Free Custard

Those who watch their figure will also be able to treat themselves to a delicious, and most importantly - low-calorie pancake cake with custard. Low-calorie custard for cakes at home can be prepared from the following products:

• Glass of water.
• Glass of sugar.
• 2 tablespoons of flour.
• Half a pack of butter.

Cooking is done according to the following instructions:

1. Pour water into a saucepan, which, after a short heating, must be mixed with sugar.
2. When sugar is completely dissolved in water, you need to add flour.
3. Mix the ingredients for a long time so that lumps of flour completely disappear.
4. When the mixture boils a little, you need to remove the pan from the stove and add oil.
5. Stir the ingredients until the oil is completely dissolved.

Starch can be used instead of butter. This will further reduce the calorie count, but may affect the overall taste of the product.