Nowadays, when the conditions of total deficit are far in the past, any of us in the store can buy a cake to our taste. Shelves of pastry shops are full of various delicacies, ranging from the most traditional, familiar to us since childhood, to the most fashionable ones that came to us from abroad.
However, homemade cakes made with love by the hands of caring housewives do not lose popularity. However, not every one of us, even having a special passion for home-made baking, can bake some masterpiece of confectionery art in his kitchen.
Fortunately, there are not so few cake recipes that even beginner chefs can cook. Among them are desserts a la Soviet classics, as well as world-famous delicacies. As they say, all ingenious is simple.
We recommend you the 10 most simple cake recipes at home: simple options without baking whipped up.
10. Red Velvet
Beautiful and delicious cake “Red velvet”Is a chocolate cake with red cakes. It is very easy to prepare, while it looks very original and spectacular. In the classic version, a layered cake is made with icing, with cream cheese cream.
The main ingredients of the cake are: buttermilk, butter, wheat flour, cocoa powder. As a coloring pigment, ordinary beets or a special food coloring are used. Cream cheese-based glaze is traditionally used.
9. Tiramisu
Tiramisu - This is a traditional Italian dessert, the preparation of which uses mascarpone cheese, coffee (most often espresso), eggs, sugar and savoyard shortbread cookies. Ready dessert is sprinkled with cocoa on top.
There are various variations of the classic Tiramisu recipe, in which cocoa is replaced with grated chocolate, cookies with biscuit, and coffee with juice or amaretto.
8. Mousse cake
Mousse cake is currently one of the most popular cake recipes. This dessert, which came to us from Europe, amazes not only with a spectacular presentation, but also with an original and harmonious combination of textures and an almost unlimited possibility of creating a wide variety of taste variations.
In the classic version, the mousse cake includes several basic parts: base (cake), mousse, filling, coating. In addition, crispy or crumble can be added as an additional layer.
7. Prague
This chocolate cake is well known in our country since the days of the Soviet Union. For its preparation, three biscuit cakes are baked, which later will be smeared with two layers of cream. Outside, the finished cake is covered with jam and fondant.
Interestingly, in Soviet times, this cake was not patented. This happened because then in the country there was no practice of granting a patent for culinary products. Therefore the cake “Prague”Can be produced at any confectionery factory.
6. Napoleon
“Napoleon”Is a layered cake prepared on the basis of puff pastry and custard.
One of the theories about the name of the cake called “Napoleon” suggests that the triangular shape of the cakes resembled the famous headdress of the legendary French emperor.
However, the technology for preparing this delicious dessert was known both in Russia and in Europe a few centuries before Bonaparte was born.
This delicacy, popular in our country, is a cake consisting of several thin and crispy crusts layered with cream. Most often, custard is used, but there are recipes for “Napoleon” with butter, cream, chocolate and even yogurt.
5. Sour cream
This biscuit layered cake is an original Russian dessert. The main difference is “Sour cream”From other known types of biscuit cakes is the use of sour cream in the manufacture of dough for cakes. Sour cream is also used in the preparation of cake cream.
The ease of preparation, as well as the availability of ingredients in conditions of shortage made Sour Cream one of the most beloved cakes among citizens of the former USSR.
4. Sacher
World famous chocolate cake “Sacher”Is an invention of the Austrian confectioner Franz Sacher. This dessert is very popular among Germans and Austrians, and contains the traditions of classical Viennese cuisine.
This cake is made from chocolate sponge cakes and apricot confiture. It is covered with chocolate icing. Most often, the finished Sacher cake is served on the table with whipped cream.
3. Bird's milk
The name for this cake popular in the USSR was Europe-famous sweets with chipped chocolate-coated filling. Initially, the cake was made from cupcake dough, which was layered with a cream made from butter, condensed milk, sugar agar syrup and beaten egg whites. The finished cake was covered with chocolate icing.
Cake “bird's milk”Is very popular with avid sweet tooth and dessert lovers with a very rich sweet taste.
2. Honey cake
“Honey cake”Is a layer cake. He was very popular in the Soviet Union and remains a favorite among many Russians and residents of the countries of the former USSR.
The basis of this delicious treat is honey and condensed milk. In addition, honey is often sprinkled with chopped nuts or powdered sugar. Quite often, lemon peel is used in the manufacture of cakes or cream for honey.
The technology for baking honey cakes has been known for a long time: even in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, sweets were baked according to this recipe. And it is understandable: honey is appreciated not only for its taste, but also for its ability to increase the shelf life of baking for a while, since honey is a natural adsorbent.
Then everything was made much simpler: the flour was mixed with honey and left in this form for 30 days. Centuries passed while this primitive yeast honey bread was transformed into delicious sweet pastries.
Interesting fact: Russian Empress Elizabeth hated honey. “Medovik” arose when a cook was invited to serve in the royal dining room, who did not know about the gastronomic preferences of the empress, and he, without suspecting anything about her fierce hatred of honey, prepared “Medovik”. Elizabeth appreciated this dish and even decided to award an expert chef.
The modern “Honey cake” is one of the most popular Russian cakes in the world. Its current version is not very different from the “imperial” one: thin fragrant honey cakes smeared with creamy caramel cream.
1. Anthill
This famous cake is very popular in post-Soviet countries. This recipe has been known since the 1970s, but then this dish was considered the prerogative of exclusively home cooking. But, the 1990s “Anthill”Became manufactured on an industrial scale.
A traditional cake recipe usually uses shortcrust pastry. According to GOST, it should be in the refrigerator for several hours. After that, it is crushed either on a coarse grater, or skipped in a meat grinder. Then it is baked, after which it is impregnated with the finished oil cream.
You can also cook “Anthill” without baking. To do this, use crushed cookies instead of shortcrust pastry.