Cake with sour cream: cooking options, ingredients and recipes

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

This article contains several step-by-step recipes for cakes with sour cream in a variety of ways: with cooking in the oven, without baking, with cream, with jelly, with fruit. Photos of finished products will help you decide on the right choice of dessert, and the recommendations of the masters will tell you the right steps in the cooking process.

Using sour cream in cakes

Sour cream is one of the most popular products that are used in the preparation of various kinds of desserts: from sweet pastries to sweets. Its versatility is amazing, because on the basis of sour cream you can make dough, cream, icing, stuffing, sauce, ice cream, jelly and countless other goodies.

Even if we restrict ourselves only to recipes for cakes with sour cream, we can distinguish the following options:

• Biscuits based on sour cream or, as they are simply called, sour cream.
• In soft shortcrust pastry, sour cream is used as an additional ingredient, it gives the dough moreairiness. This dough is especially crumbly and tender.
• Cakes without baking, containing sour cream, are divided into jelly and with sour cream based on crackers, cookies and nuts. They also include cheesecakes. Such desserts are very good for those who do not know how to work with dough or prefer quick recipes.
• Various creams, glazes and soufflés: whipped sour cream with sugar, cream ganache with chocolate, condensed milk, gelatin, jam.

It is worth dwelling on each of the described options in more detail, cook and make sure that cakes with sour cream are very simple and tasty.

Mosaic Jelly Cake

The brightest and most famous representative of the jelly cake (the recipe with sour cream and pieces of jelly inside is described below) resembles a children's kaleidoscope toy. Preparing is very simple: several types of jelly in packs (red, green, orange) are prepared in separate containers and cooled until they harden. After that, you can cut all the jelly into medium-sized pieces and mix gently in one large bowl, being careful not to disturb their fragile structure. Next, dissolve 25 grams of instant gelatin in 150 grams of water, and when it swells, heat in a water bath until completely dissolved.

In a separate bowl, beat 250 grams of sour cream with the same amount of cream and a glass of sugar, then add 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla. Sour cream is whipped until the first signs of thickening, then heated gelatin is poured into it, be sure to mix the masswhisk. Mix the resulting jelly from sour cream and gelatin with pieces of colored jelly, mix and pour into a cake mold, previously lined with cling film. Leave the cake in a cool place until completely cool.

Fruit exotic: no-bake cake

A similar cake with sour cream can be prepared by replacing pieces of jelly with fresh fruits and berries. For this you will need the following ingredients:

• 250 grams of sour cream and cream each;
• 1 orange, 1 kiwi;
• half fresh pineapple or canned pineapple;
• 200 grams of fresh strawberries or raspberries;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• vanillin to taste;
• 25- 30 grams of gelatin.

First of all, gelatin should be soaked in 150 grams of water, wait for it to swell, and then melt in a steam bath to a liquid state. Fruit is cut into medium-sized pieces. Sour cream and cream are whipped with sugar and vanilla until the first signs of thickening, for this cake you do not need to beat them into a stable cream, as for a layer of biscuits. Next, pour the melted gelatin into the sour cream in a thin stream, stirring with a whisk, and then add the fruit slices. Transfer the resulting mass to a silicone cake mold, leave in a cold place until completely solidified. Before serving, invert the cake onto a serving platter, unmould and garnish with fresh berries, whipped cream or chocolate tendrils.

Based on biscuit

There are several recipes you can useidea with sour cream, fruit and biscuit. The cake will be suitable for long-term transportation, which cannot be said about jelly desserts without a dough base. For such a cake, we prepare a jelly layer of sour cream with fruits according to the recipe described above, and when it hardens, we place a pre-baked biscuit of four eggs on top. Then we turn it over onto a dish and cover the whole cake with chocolate icing, which can be prepared by melting a bar of chocolate in a water bath and adding one hundred grams of fresh cream to it. This cake looks amazing when cut and kids love it.

Sour cream with chocolate cream

Cake with sour cream as a cream is an easy and popular option. But sour cream can also be used as a base for dough, while getting a stunning buttery biscuit, which differs from the classic one in a softer and more crumbly texture. To prepare sour cream step by step, you need:

1. Separate six eggs into whites and yolks.
2. Beat the whites into a strong foam (to stable peaks) with 0.5 cups of sugar.
3. Beat the yolks with the same amount of granulated sugar until white, add a little vanillin. At the end of beating, add a glass of sour cream and two glasses of wheat flour to the mass.
4. Next, add the proteins to the mass, mixing the mass from the bottom up with a spoon only.
5. Move the dough into a parchment-lined pan and bake until done in the oven.

Cake with sour cream is usually baked for forty minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. At the same time, the recommendations are the same as when preparing a regular biscuit: do not open the door for the first twenty minutes, after baking, allow the cake to cool slightly in the oven with the door open, remove from the mold after complete cooling. Cut the cake with a sharp knife into two layers lengthwise and grease with cream. The top and sides of the finished cake can be generously smeared with cream, and using a curly knife or a pastry syringe, draw patterns on its surface. If you don't have time for that, just sprinkle the top with crushed nuts or coconut.

How to make cream?

Cream of sour cream for the cake is prepared as easy as shelling pears: you need to beat 400 grams of sour cream and 150 grams of sugar with a mixer until the mass thickens and at the end add 2-3 tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder. It is important not to overdo it, otherwise the sour cream will turn into butter and the cream will be spoiled. If this still happened, you can mix it with a can of condensed milk - you get a new kind of cream, although its calorie content will be an order of magnitude higher than that of ordinary sour cream.

Napoleon with sour cream

This cream (you can without cocoa) is good to miss the usual "Napoleon" - puff pastry cake. With sour cream, its taste will not be as rich and fatty as with classic butter cream, which is very popular with many sweet tooth. The only condition: it is better to bake cakes for "Napoleon" from ready-made puff pastry, rolled out very thinly, and not from ordinary, home-made. A cake made from such a dough will be better soaked and will be very soft and light, which again will have a positive effect on its taste.

Cakeno eggs

To prepare the dough for a cake of shortcakes with sour cream, without eggs, you should use the following ingredients:

• 300 grams of sugar and sour cream each.
• 50 grams of butter.
• 500 grams of flour.
• 1\2 tsp soda.
• Vanilla sugar for flavoring the dough. If desired, it can be replaced with the grated zest of one lemon or orange.

All ingredients are mixed in one bowl until a lump of dough is formed, which is divided into six equal parts. Balls are formed from them, wrapped in polyethylene and placed in the cold for forty minutes. Next, you need to roll each lump between two layers of parchment (for convenience, because the dough is very tender) to a circle with a diameter of 23-25 cm. Then bake the cakes in the oven (200 degrees) until the color changes slightly. They should not be fried to a blush, then the dough will be poorly saturated with cream. On average, each cake takes no more than 5-8 minutes to bake, so it’s better to roll them out in advance and stay in the oven. Cool the finished cakes and coat with any cream to taste.

From Rybki cookies

No-bake cake with sour cream whipped into cream is already becoming a classic, on the basis of which more and more new recipes are created. This case is just that: fish-shaped crackers, which are very popular among teenagers, are used to make a cake in five minutes. To make a dessert out of them, you need:

1. Beat 500 grams of sour cream with a glass of sugar until creamy.
2. Three-four bananascut into small pieces and add to the cream.
3. Pour the crackers into a bowl, pour over the cream, if desired, you can add two tablespoons of coconut flakes or a bar of chocolate, crushed into small pieces.
4. Put a bowl of the required shape with a film and place the prepared mass there, tamp and put in a cold place for 5-6 hours to soak.

Immediately before serving, put the cake on a dish and sprinkle generously with chocolate chips or chopped walnuts.

Cake with cottage cheese cream

Continuing the theme of no-bake sour cream cakes, here's another option that lovers of he althy, low-calorie, high-vitamin desserts will love.

To prepare this cake, take two bananas, mash them into puree and mix with 200 grams of chopped nuts (walnuts, cashews, almonds) and the same amount of crumbs from a simple cookie. If desired, you can add some dates or prunes, chopped with a blender.

We tamp the resulting mass at the bottom of a detachable form, forming a cake, on which the second layer of curd mass will be located. To prepare it, pre-soak 30 grams of gelatin in 150 grams of water, and when the gelatin swells, melt it in a water bath.

Using a blender, beat 200 grams of cottage cheese and a glass of sugar into a homogeneous mass, add vanilla and a glass of thick sour cream, beat lightly and pour in gelatin, mixing thoroughly with a spoon. We spread the resulting mass in a form on a layer of nuts and level with a spoon. Cool the cake until the mass is completely set, then carefully remove the detachable mold and pour the chocolate icing on the cake.

Cheesecake with berries

If you want a summer and fresh taste, then, according to the principle of the previous recipe, we prepare the base, place whole strawberries on it with the sharp side up, laying them tightly to each other, and then pour the curd mass.

In order to make a cake with sour cream, as in the photo, before pouring in the gelatin, add a little crushed strawberries to the cream. When the cottage cheese and sour cream lies in an even layer, cut large strawberries into halves and decorate the perimeter of the cake with them. The middle can be sprinkled with chocolate chips.

Pancho Pineapple Cake

This is a very tasty cake with sour cream. This dessert looks elegant and unusual, despite the simplicity of preparation, so it can be prepared for any family holiday. To make the cake you will need:

• For the biscuit: two eggs, two cups of sugar and flour, 400 grams of sour cream and 1 tsp. soda. The dough is kneaded in the classic way described above and divided into two parts. Two tbsp are added to one. spoons of cocoa. Bake two cakes, cool on a wire rack.
• For cream: 450 grams of sour cream and a glass of sugar, beat until the mass thickens, add vanilla. You will also need 300 grams of canned pineapple, cut into medium-sized pieces.
• For chocolate icing: one hundred grams of dark chocolate,4 tablespoons of water and one hundred grams of sour cream.

To form the Pancho cake, you need to cut the light cake into two parts, put one on a dish, and cut the other with a dark layer into cubes 2-3 cm thick. Next, combine 1/2 of the cream into pieces of biscuit and mix gently, and spread the second part of the whole layer of the cake. Arrange pineapple slices close to each other on the cream, on top of which put colored pieces of biscuit with cream in a slide. Allow the cake to cool slightly in a cool place, and then pour over the chocolate icing. Dessert is ready!