Napoleon is a famous cake that is not quite easy to make. First, you need to knead the dough, then cool it, then roll, bake, cut. In addition, you still need to make a cream, smear it all, put it on, soak it and decorate it. All this is so long, but there is a simpler option with biscuits.
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Napoleon Ears Cake - General Cooking Principles
Cookies "ears" is made from puff pastry with sugar, it is crispy, tasty, usually in the shape of hearts. But we also remind the hare ears, which is why it got such a funny name. Puff cookies are sold in the store, it can be by weight or packaged, you can choose any option. It is noteworthy that the “ears” are very light, for a medium-sized cake, half a kilogram is enough.
Cream in the classic custard cake. And with ready-made puff pastry cakes, it goes well. Cook it in milk with eggs and starch, it is often replaced with flour. Additionally enter vanillin and butter.
Which creams can still be used:
• sour cream;
• creamy;
• from condensed milk.
The choice is influenced by the availability of products and free time. It is not always there for boiling, whipping, sometimes you need to wait for complete cooling.
Gather an improvised cake "Napoleon" is always in deep forms or in bowls. It is just very difficult to lay the ears in such a way, the cookies are small, they leave and crumble. Since in itself it is dry, no need to feel sorry for the cream, let it be a lot. Like any other version of Napoleon, this cake will need to brew. For 8-10 hours it will be well soaked, “settle”, it can be cut into slices, served to the table.
Napoleon Cake with Custard Ears
This is almost a classic Napoleon cake recipe, but from the ears. The cream is preparing a real custard with milk, eggs and flour are added to it, which can be replaced with starch. An increase in the amount of butter is allowed, as some people like fatter versions of this cake. Ingredients
• 600 g of biscuits;
• 500 ml of milk;
• 120 g butter;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• a pair of eggs;
• a glass of sugar;
• vanillin.
Method of preparation
1. We mix vanilla, flour and granulated sugar in a small saucepan. Separate the yolks, add one at a time, start stirring with a whisk, gradually adding milk. As soon as the mixture is brought to homogeneity, you can put the cream on the stove. We start to heat it. Stir not cease.
2. Mass will begin to thicken at the bottom. As soon as it looks like liquid semolina and the first bubbles appear on the surface, you can remove the plate. When cooled, the cream thickens. Cool, add the softened butter, carefully beat with a mixer.
3. For Napoleon, we take a detachable form or a bowl; in the first case, we can not cover it; in the second version, we lay out a layer of cling film from the inside, or neatly line the parchment.
4. Spread layers of biscuits ears, generously promezhivaem custard. Leftovers in the refrigerator. Cake, too, put in it soak. It is advisable to endure twelve hours, for example, all night.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. Coat the remnants of the cream. Grind a few cookie tricks or take crumbs from the ears from the bag. Sprinkle cake "Napoleon" on top, also decorate the sides.
Napoleon cake with biscuits “ears” with sour cream
This version of the Napoleon cake of biscuits "ears" with sour cream. Due to the slight sourness of the product it turns out incredibly tasty, interesting. In addition, sour cream very well permeates any cakes, and its preparation takes no more than three minutes.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of ears;
• 0.6 kg sour cream;
• 0.16 kg of sugar;
• vanilla.
Method of preparation
1. Prepare a quick cream. Just combine sour cream with sugar and vanilla. Better yet, take a blender and beat a few minutes. It is important to take a fairly thick and fatty product, then you get a good cream. But you also need to gently whip a thick cream, it can easily become butter. 2. Put the cookies in a suitable form. Broken parts can be thrust into the void. We coat with sour cream, repeat until the products run out. Give the cake soak for at least five hours.
3. We get an improvised Napoleon. We grease with the remains of cream, we decorate with crumbs from cookies or in any other way.
Napoleon cake with ears with condensed milk
To make such a cake you need two types of condensed milk. The main cream is made from white milk with butter and vanilla. The second cream will be used for registration, it will need a little boiled condensed milk.
Ingredients
• 400 ml of white condensed milk;
• 150 g of boiled condensed milk;
• 250 g of oil;
• vanilla bag;
• 450-500 g cookies.
Method of preparation
1. Cooking cream. Oil for him to be removed from the refrigerator. It is advisable to even cut into pieces so that it softens faster. Then lay out in a bowl and beat for about five minutes at high speed mixer. Put off two full tablespoons. The mass should be white, fluffy, something like a whipped cream.
2. In the remaining butter we begin to pour in a thin stream boiled condensed milk. We continue to beat. Has the cream become homogeneous? Fall asleep vanilla, after a few seconds, turn off the mixer.
3. Spread layers of cookies “ears”, coat with white condensed milk cream, cover and send to the refrigerator for at least five hours.
4. Add the oil which was previously put off immediately with a boiled condensed milk. Put the cream in the fridge.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. We coat it on top and on the sides with cream of boiled condensed milk. Line the cake, fill the voids. Grind a few ears to the state is not very small crumbs. Sprinkle sides, top. But you can decorate such a cake with flowers from cream, grated chocolate.
Napoleon cake with biscuits ears with nuts
Option tasty and very fragrant cake from the ears. For Napoleon, you can use a walnut, with it it turns out delicious, but it is also allowed to take cheaper peanuts. Ingredients
• 600 ml of milk;
• 3 yolks;
• 180 grams of nuts;
• 200 g of oil;
• 500 g of cookies;
• 2 tablespoons of starch;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara.
Method of preparation
1. Since the custard will take time to cool, we start with it. Beat yolks and sugar with starch, pour milk, put on the stove in a non-stick saucepan. Cook until the mass thickens. Enter half the oil, dissolve and cool. Then add the second part of the softened butter, beat a little.
2. Pour the nuts on the stove, fry a little. Then cool, lay on the board, roll with a rolling pin to grind, but not to the state of flour.
3. Lubricate the layers of cookies, lightly sprinkle with nuts, put and remove soak.
4. We grind pieces of 5-6 cookies, we mix with nuts. We take out the impregnated cake from the mold, grease with the remnants of the cream, fall asleep with a mixture of nuts and cookies.
Napoleon cake of biscuits “ears” with sour cream and condensed milk
Another simple version of the cream for a lazy cake Napoleon. The ears themselves contain a lot of fat, so greasing is prepared without adding oil. It is possible to lay thin banana slices between the layers of cookies in this cake.
Ingredients
• 400 g sour cream;
• 300 g of condensed milk;
• 1 tbsp. l vanilla sugar;
• 500 g ears.
Method of preparation
1. Whip sour cream, add condensed milk and vanilla sugar to it. The cream should not get liquid, use thick ingredients.
2. Spread layers of ready-made cookies, lubricate, try to arrange tightly so that there are fewer voids.
3. Cover the form or bowl, remove soak in the fridge. Then we take out, we decorate with the crushed cookies.
Napoleon Cake of Ears with Chocolate Cream
Variation of lazy cake with custard chocolate cream. It is also prepared from milk with cocoa. Additionally, you will need one bar of chocolate for sprinkling and decorating.
Ingredients
• 700 ml of milk;
• 130 g of oil;
• 210 g of sugar;
• 600 g ears;
• 3 yolks;
• 2 tablespoons of flour; • 3 spoons of cocoa;
• 90 g chocolate.
Method of preparation
1. Mix two full spoons of flour with cocoa powder and granulated sugar. Separate the yolks, add to the future cream, grind and add milk. Put the mass brew on the stove. Heat and stir constantly.
2. As soon as bubbles appear, remove the saucepan from the heat. Add sliced butter to hot and thickened cream. Stir until they completely dissolve. Cool the chocolate cream.
3. In the form, we collect the cake in layers, coating the “ears” cookies with the prepared chocolate cream. We clean the refrigerator for seven hours.
4. Remove Napoleon from the mold. It is desirable to lubricate it well. Grind cookies. Sprinkle the sides of the cake.
5. We rub half of chocolate, we fall asleep chips upper part of the cake. The remaining pieces are cut into small cubes, scatter in random order.
Napoleon Cake from the Ears - Tips and Tricks
• When adding a large amount of butter to the cream, it is desirable to whisk the product separately until a good foam. In this case, nothing will flow, the taste will improve, the mass will be airy, the high fat content will not be felt.
• If there are no cookies for sprinkling the cake on the top and sides, you can use nuts, cocoa powder, coconut chips, and even roasted sesame seeds. In any kitchen you can find an alternative.
• If there is not enough time to soak the cake, you can first hold it for a couple of hours at room temperature and then cool.
• If the cream does not remain, after removing the cake from the mold, it can be greased with ordinary condensed milk or sour cream.
